Equipment

Slovenia, a land of tractors

One in 17 Slovenians owns a tractor, which ranks the country among leaders in Europe in per capita tractor ownership. Almost 120,000 tractors were registered at the end of 2022, up to 15,000 more are estimated to be unregistered.

Last year 1,365 new tractors were registered, slightly fewer than the year before but 249 more than in 2020.

GPS signal from wireless headphones leads police to airport thief

A member of the ground staff at Athens International Airport has confessed to stealing valuables from passengers' luggage on at least 70 occasions after police tracked him down by following the GPS signal from a pair of wireless headphones which he had stolen from a tourist's suitcase.

Woman invents ‘assistant glasses’ for visually impaired

A 25-year-old Turkish woman has invented special glasses, named "assistant glasses," that help visually impaired people to "recognize" people or "identify" objects.

Graduated from the U.S. Brown College, Melis Gökalp, who is working in an international digital health systems company, had written the software of the assistant glasses between 2019 and 2021.

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