Beijing is shrouded under a toxic haze again, as the city enters the fourth and final day of its ‘red alert’. The measures are aimed at trying to curb the city’s notorious smog. More and more Chinese people are now taking precautions against the air pollution.
Beijing resident Li Tianqin, has a three-year-old daughter and has tried many ways to protect her family, including buying a can of fresh air imported from Canada’s Rocky Mountains.

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A British company has demonstrated a prototype device capable of stopping cars and other vehicles using a blast of electromagnetic waves.

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What can you do if you do not have access to running water? No pipes, no wells, no rainfall? The solution may be to catch water from fog. We meet Abel Cruz, the Peruvian man behind a huge fog net project which is providing water to a community in the slums of Lima. Could fog catching be a solution to wider water crises facing the world?
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The humble forklift has been the backbone of industry for more than 100 years – and now they’re getting a 21st Century makeover.

Fox Robotics have created the world’s first ‘intelligent’ forklift.

Beyond being self-driving, it can upload and offload packages completely autonomously.

What could this mean for the future of manufacturing?

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Tech Now’s Adrienne Murray visited Stockholm, Sweden, to explore a wave energy technology inspired by the way the human heart pumps blood.

Swedish company CorPower has developed large yellow buoys, anchored to the seabed, which generate electricity by harnessing the movement of ocean waves.

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