🌱 World’s first inflatable farm, a new smart window technology, the world's most powerful electronic warfare weapon design

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From CES 2025, the Jordanian company AirFarm innovated indoor farming with the world’s first inflatable farm.

AirFarm simplifies agriculture with its integrated smart farming system, making it accessible even to beginners. The system is paired with a user-friendly smartphone app that provides real-time monitoring and control of essential cultivation factors.

The intuitive dashboard and automated control features allow users to input desired values, ensuring optimal growing conditions are maintained with minimal effort. This data-driven approach not only enhances productivity but also makes farming more efficient and predictable. Let's take a closer look at this Must Read.  

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🌱 World’s first inflatable farm uses 99% less water to grow vegetables in deserts

AirFarm’s advanced micro mist aeroponic system is at the heart of its “smart farm” innovation. It delivers nutrients through a fine mist sprayed directly onto the roots, optimizing plant growth while minimizing resource use.

Compared to hydroponic systems, AirFarm’s system cuts water usage by 90%, eliminating the need for pesticides entirely. It’s so easy to use that even beginners can farm anything from leafy greens to root vegetables such as potatoes and carrots.

Already in use in UAE and Japan, they’re supplying school cafeterias with salads. Next up, the company wants to tackle vertical farming. “We’re trying to make a net zero farm,” Jenna Kim told Interesting Engineering at CES 2025.

🪟Smart window system manages heat, visibility, improves comfort with low-energy solution

Scientists have implemented a novel approach to create a smart window technology capable of controlling visible light and infrared radiation.

It combines liquid crystals with nanoporous microparticles and a patterned vanadium dioxide (VO2) layer to control visible light and infrared radiation simultaneously, offering fast, efficient heat and visibility management. 

Traditional smart window technologies have been effective in managing either heat or light. New research introduces an innovative solution that promises to overcome these challenges, creating a more efficient and versatile smart window system.

🇨🇳 China releases ‘world’s most powerful’ weapon design software, 15x faster than US

China has reportedly produced the world’s most powerful electronic warfare weapon design software that outperforms similar US products in speed and memory.

In just 12 minutes, Yaoguang performs the same radiation simulation analysis that the US equivalent product takes three hours to complete.

As one of the seven most urgent and critical core technologies, industrial software aims to replace Western products used in China’s industrial design field.

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