Consumer & Gadgets

Columnist: Your smart watch can assist if you fall

Last week I wrote about setting up Amazon Echo devices to enable making phone calls with your voice, which could be helpful in an emergency. I mentioned falling and not having a phone within reach to call for help.

Energy & Green Tech

Sunny Albania turns to solar power to fuel development

Along southwestern Albania's coastline, the sun shines bright—warming the 234,828 new solar panels at the Karavasta power station that will be connected to the country's energy grid in the coming weeks.

Engineering

Portable sun-powered water harvester could combat water scarcity

University of California Berkeley researchers have designed an extreme-weather proven, hand-held device that can extract and convert water molecules from the air into drinkable water using only ambient sunlight as its energy ...

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Park

A park is a protected area, in its natural or semi-natural state, or planted, and set aside for human recreation and enjoyment, or for the protection of wildlife or natural habitats. It may consist of rocks, soil, water, flora and fauna and grass areas. Many parks are legally protected by law.

Wilderness parks are intact and undeveloped areas used mainly by wild species. Protected wilderness zones are required for some wild species to survive. Some protected parks focus mainly on the survival of a few threatened species, such as gorillas or chimpanzees.

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