Are you worried your kids are so addicted to their devices that they will completely tune out and ignore even the shrill alarm of a smoke detector? First Alert wants to make sure that never happens, so the company is branching out with a whole home mesh wi-fi system that…
A well-maintained smoke detector is a must for every home, but often, smoke isn’t the first byproduct of a smouldering fire. So researchers have developed a new kind of fire alarm that detects carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxide instead, to identify fires at an earlier stage.
Just because it’s illegal for people to smoke in certain areas, it doesn’t necessarily mean they won’t, and putting up a ‘No Smoking’ sign isn’t much of a deterrent. So Joseph BelBruno, a chemistry professor from Dartmouth College, has turned his research on second-hand smoke into a new kind of…