Wristband that tracks your emotional state lets bosses monitor employees’ wellbeing in lockdown

A £50 wristband created by a British health technology firm is helping people track the wellbeing of their friends, family and employees in lockdown.  Moodbeam features two buttons that the wearer simply has to press throughout the day depending on their mood – yellow for happy and blue for unhappy.  This is logged alongside both … Read more

Venice opens control room that tracks where EVERY tourist is from and where they visit

Visitors to Venice are being tracked via a new ‘control room’ that uses mobile phone data to log where they go, what they do, and where they’re from. City officials sitting in the £2.7million nerve-centre, which opened in September, are able to see how many people are congregating in different parts of the city, how … Read more

Should have used the Sat Nav! Tram station is forced to close after black TAXI left on tracks 

Should have used the Sat Nav! Tram station is forced to close after black TAXI is left abandoned on tracks Bizarre footage shows moment police attempt to remove the taxi from tram line The incident took place on the Snow Hill stop in Birmingham, West Midlands   Footage of the rescue attempt was captured by a passerby, … Read more

Moment 61-year-old man’s car is crushed by train in Brazil after getting stuck on the tracks

Moment 61-year-old man’s car is crushed by train in Brazil after getting stuck on the tracks – and he walked away with only a hand injury A 60-year-old man walked away with a minor hand injury after his car got stuck on a railroad track and got plowed by a train Sunday in Brazil  Video … Read more

Cocaine-using mother, 26, is convicted or murdering her 19-month-old daughter covering her tracks 

Cocaine-using mother, 26, is convicted of murdering her 19-month-old daughter by scalding her with boiling water then leaving her to scream while she spent an hour covering her tracks Gracie Crowder died shortly after was rushed to hospital on March 6 this year She suffered deep burns covering 65 per cent of the infant’s body … Read more

UK ‘message in a bottle’ experiment tracks plastic pollution

A National Geographic-backed experiment has shown how plastic bottles can travel almost 2,000 miles in just three months in natural waterways in Asia. UK researchers from placed GPS and satellite tags in plastic bottles in the Ganges river and the Bay of Bengal at the top of the Indian Ocean.  The maximum distance travelled by … Read more

Woman is struck by a train after being pushed onto the tracks at an NYC subway station

The shocking moment a woman was shoved into the path of an incoming train by a stranger in a Manhattan subway station on Thursday morning was captured on surveillance footage.  The unidentified 40-year-old woman miraculously escaped with only minor injuries after lying flat on the track bed as the train passed over her.  She was … Read more

Mother, 26, ‘scalded her daughter to death and covered her tracks’, court hears 

Cocaine-using mother, 26, ‘fatally scalded her 19-month-old daughter and left her to scream while she covered her tracks for at least an hour’, court hears Gracie Crowder died shortly after was rushed to hospital on March 6 this year She suffered deep burns covering 65 per cent of the infant’s body area Mother Katie Crowder accused of … Read more

Moment jogger wearing headphones runs across tracks in front of a train with just seconds to spare 

Moment jogger wearing headphones runs across tracks in front of a train with just seconds to spare The jogger darted across the tracks in Princes Risborough in Buckinghamshire The driver of the London to Oxford service filmed the near-miss on November 6 Network Rail said the jogger ignored safety advice when crossing the tracks  Pedestrians … Read more

Panasonic’s vacuum cleaner-like device with a ‘magic hand’ grabs lost AirPods on train tracks

Panasonic has developed a special vacuum cleaner that sucks up dropped earbuds. The device is being tested in Japanese train stations, where nearly 1,000 pairs of earphones have been dropped on the tracks in just three months. Previously, train workers had to use a grabber tool to collect earbuds. The process was ‘burdensome,’ according to … Read more