These High Tech Bed Sheets Use Infrared Light for Faster Muscle Recovery

Exercise is important. But if you’re not taking care of your body post-workout, you’re doing it a disservice. This means taking rest days, and being kind to your muscles and joints between workouts so you get enough muscle recovery time. However, there are other ways to maximize your recovery when you’re not working out. It turns out, infrared light is touted as one of the best ways to give your muscles the rejuvenation they need. Not only does it penetrate tissue, joints, and muscles to soothe and alleviate minor aches and pains, but it also speeds up recovery time by penetrating through your skin to warm your core. That’s why Under Armour has created its Recover Sheet Set, the high-tech bedding that helps your body recover while you sleep.

With Under Armor’s Recover Sheet Set, you’re sleeping on the ultimate post-game, post-train system to help you restore muscle faster & come back better than ever. This is because the mineral-lined fabric used in the Recover Sheet Set reflects the infrared light back onto your body. In doing this, you’re able to amp up your self-care while you’re off the clock. This includes an amplified muscle recovery, restoring your fatigued body. These extremely breathable micro-mesh fabric sheets are also infused with insanely soft modal to provide superior comfort so you rest better and achieve a deeper, better night’s sleep

What’s the fastest thing in the universe? Light. The fastest way to recover? Also light. Infrared light, to be exact. Because of this Under Armour developed an advanced sleep system that helps your body rebuild itself through faster muscle recovery while you rest. The key is the print on the inside of the Recover Sleep Set, which leverages the power of far-infrared. Far infrared is a type of energy on the infrared spectrum that boasts several benefits for the human body, including alienating muscle soreness &fatigue as well as joint pain, improving physical performance, and bribing about a more satisfying sleep. Under Armour’s goal was to harvest this energy from your body while you rest at night so you can get a more restful sleep and muscle recovery each night, saving you time 

This Incredible Real-Time Voice Language Translator Is Also a Global WIFI Hotspot

If you’re getting ready to travel abroad, you’ve probably already started looking into translator apps for your phone. And that makes a lot of sense. There are tons of different translator apps out there, and some of them work really well. The only problem with translator apps? Not only do you need to make sure you have a data connection, which is a whole separate headache, but depending on where in the world you’re traveling, it’s not always a good idea to walk around with your $900 phone in your hand. That’s a good way to get your phone—and all the photos, boarding passes, hotel reservations, credit cards, and any other personal information stored on it—stolen. For that reason, when it comes to surmounting language barriers, we recommend the revolutionary Langogo Pocket AI Language Translator.

What makes the Langogo Pocket AI Translator so special? In addition to providing amazingly accurate real-time translations, it also serves as a powerful digital assistant and a global wifi hotspot, all in one.

Langogo Pocket AI Language Translator

Langogo

Unlike other translators that rely on a single AI translation engine, Langogo uses a special algorithm that integrates 24 of the world’s most advanced neural machine translation engines, including those developed by Google and Microsoft. As a result, Langogo can translate 105 different languages, even picking up things like context and accents to provide the most accurate translations possible.

For convenience, Langogo has two different translation modes: one-button translation and conversation mode. The one-button translation mode is designed for quick, simple interactions, such as ordering something at a restaurant, or telling a cab driver where to go. You simply press a button on the side of the device and talk, and Langogo translates your words into the pre-selected language in less than one second.

Conversation mode, by contrast, is designed for more complex interactions. Once activated, Langogo starts listening with dial noise cancellation microphones that pick up any human voices in a 30-inch radius, even in outdoor spaces and noisy rooms. Then Langogo starts translating everything being said so you can actually have a full, hands-free conversation with someone who speaks another language.

Langogo

Of course, while the translation capabilities are outstanding, what really sets this device apart from the competition is its connectivity. The Langogo has three ways to connect to the internet: wifi, a removable SIM card, or eSIM. The first two options work just like they would on any other device. The last, however, is fairly new technology, though you may have heard of it thanks to the iPhone X. An eSIM is just a built-in SIM card. However, unlike a regular SIM, the eSIME is a new, globally recognized SIM platform that allows you to switch back and forth between carriers. That means it will work wherever you are on the globe so long as you have a data plan.

And that brings us to the next amazing feature of the Langogo. When you buy one, it comes with a two-year global data plan. This allows you not only to use your Langogo for translations, but as a global wifi hotspot that can connect up to five devices at a time, including your phone, tablet, laptop, and smart watch. When you’re two-year subscription expires, you can purchase a new one directly from your device, or you can get a local plan of your choice using a regular SIM card.

Langogo

Langogo has a 3.1-inch retina display and smooth touch screen control. It also has a voice-activated digital assistant called Euri that works like Siri or Alexa and is perfect for getting directions and food recommendations. So Langogo isn’t just the world’s most accurate pocket translator. It’s a brilliant all-around mobile device that can ably stand in for your phone while exploring the world.

Russia Is Floating a Nuclear Power Plant Across the Arctic

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Russia’s massive floating nuclear power plant is destined to make its way across the Arctic Ocean to supply electricity to a remote eastern region, The Guardian reports. The plant, called the Akademik Lomonosov, will travel about 4,000 miles from St. Petersburg to provide power for Pevek, a remote North Eastern Arctic port town.

The 70-megawatt plant is capable of generating enough electricity for around 100,000 homes, according to the newspaper. Pevek, however, has only a population of around 5,000, while the surrounding Chukotka Region has 50,000 inhabitants.

Russia launched the plant out of the St. Petersburg shipyard in April 2018 — towed however, since it doesn’t have a propulsion system of its own. It also reportedly features a pool, gym, and a dry bar on board.

But the potential for a natural disaster is substantial, according to some environmentalists.

“It’s riskier than running an ordinary nuclear-power station, and Russia has a checkered past when it comes to ordinary power stations,” Jan Haverkamp, a Greenpeace nuclear-energy expert, told Business Insider.

In a recent Greenpeace blog post, Haverkamp likened the power station to “a Chernobyl on ice.” In 2018, she called it a “nuclear Titanic.”

Anna Kireeva, head of communications at the Bellona Foundation, an organization that advocates for environmental issues in the Arctic, also rang alarm bells.

“I’m really concerned that such nuclear technologies can be used in countries where levels of nuclear radiation safety, regulation and standards of safety are not on such a high level as in Russia,” she told The Guardian. “What will they do with spent nuclear fuel? How will they react in case of emergencies?”

But authorities at Rosatom, Russia’s State Nuclear Energy Corporation, say they’re confident the massive barge is safe. They argue that the Akademik Lomonosov is “virtually unsinkable” and can withstand collisions with icebergs and seven-meter waves, as The Guardian reports.

“We studied the experience of Fukushima closely, Dmitry Alekseyenko, head of construction and operation of the power plant told The Guardian. “[What happens] if the platform is hit by a tsunami? Or thrown onshore? According to our tests, a tsunami caused by a nine-point [earthquake] will not dislocate it from its base.”

Rosatom has also hit back at Greenpeace.

“Their allegations about the dangers posed by the plant are completely baseless,” reads a 2018 statement. “Greenpeace has not presented any meaningful scientific evidence to support any unaddressed risks or shortcomings of the plant’s design, which is based on tried and tested technology and has an impeccable track record.”

Regardless, it might be too late to stop a future where floating nuclear power stations power distant population centers.

In fact, Russia is not the only nation interested in constructing floating nuclear power plants. China’s National Nuclear Corp announced in March it’s planning to build up to 20 floating nuclear plants to bring power to artificial islands in the South China Sea.

source: futurism