Colorado State University Grad Student Honored for Inovation

FORT COLLINS - A spherical robot that climbs stairs has won a Colorado State University mechanical engineering graduate student recognition as one of the "10 Most Brilliant Innovators of 2009" by Popular Mechanics magazine.

Greg Schroll also received the publication’s Next Generation Breakthrough Award for his machine that could one day explore extraterrestrial landscapes.

Schroll used whatever he found sitting around to construct his prototype. The top globe to a gumball machine makes up the robot’s polycarbonate outer shell while the red rubber tracking that helps the robot glide came from a rubber playground ball. Inside, remote-control car and helicopter parts comprise the distinctive machine.

The robot’s exclusive ability to easily navigate inclines and roam rough terrain is possible because of a set of gyroscopes that store momentum within the sphere. The prototype demonstrates the concept that accumulating momentum and releasing it on command can propel an object, even up a set of steep stairs.

The robot is enclosed within a rugged and resilient uniform shell leaving no obvious points of weakness. Its spherical shape prevents it from ever being turned upside down which would allow potential drivers to maneuver the robot in a variety of environments without becoming incapacitated. The robot also has the ability to be sealed for amphibious work.

Eric Layton / 4 Dec 2009

3D @ Home

The 3D home theater is catching up to the multiplex. Shutter glasses such as the Nvidia 3D Vision Kit ($200) work by blacking out one eye at a time, 60 times per second—so fast you don’t notice it. An infrared emitter syncs these flashes with a quickly switching screen, allowing each eye to effectively see a different image. The 3D effect comes from showing the same scene to each eye from a different perspective. Lots of current games can be played in 3D, and software from companies like DDD can convert any off-the-shelf DVD into 3D live, as it plays. Just make sure you have a 3D- compatible display.

Eric Layton
4 Dec 2009

How would nature solve building challenges?

Click the link
This whole website is amazing. Instead of extracting just one article of info to post, here is the whole thing.

posted by Helen

MakerBot: The 3D Printing Robot

Posted by: Erin Wheeler

20 technologies that changed the world

20 technologies that changed the world

We reveal the little things that made a big impact
By Gary Marshall

way too long to copy/paste. 'Fraid you'll just have to follow the link...



posted by Helen

In pictures: Microsoft's Mouse 2.0 concepts

Multi-touch mice times five
By Patrick Goss

Microsoft has shown off its concepts for Mouse 2.0 – and how it could bring the humble pointing device up to date with multi-touch technology.

A paper written by Microsoft's research department presents "novel input devices that combine the standard capabilities of a computer mouse with multi-touch sensing".

"The traditional computer mouse design, however, makes little use of [the hand's] dexterity, reducing our hands to a single cursor on the screen," explains the report.

follow link for whole article
posted by Helen

"Paper" thin laptop

Je Sung Park's clever concept design makes the upgrade process both inexpensive and guilt-free

Posted By: Jeremy Kerbs

Snowboarding in the Summer?

Meet the Snowtunnel - an indoor snowboarding experience!

Posted by: Jeremy Kerbs

Sticker It Up!

...would you have been able to resist?





Posted by: Lara Pageler

Monitor Household Energy Usage

Marcel Wanders is helping us to monitor our electric usage with a simple device the Wattcher. In his words...
“The design is very clean and has urgency in pointing out your energy consumption. The Wattcher is more than just a product; it is a strategy that stimulates awareness.”

What it monitors:

• Current power consumption (in Watts): how much energy you're using at this moment.
• Daily consumption (in kiloWattday): your total electricity consumption in the last 24 hours.
• Target consumption (in %): daily consumption compared with your own target. Are you really saving energy?
  

...all without using much energy itself. The combined consumption of all Wattcher components (sensor, sending unit and display) is less than 1 Watt.

posted by Lara Pageler

Implantable Silicon-Silk electronics could mean LED tattoos

By Darren Quick

22:52 November 11, 2009 PST

A clear silk film, about one centimeter squared, with six silicon transistors on its surface about to be implanted into a mouse (Photo: Rogers/Omenetto)

Tattooing dates back to at least Neolithic times and has experienced a resurgence in popularity in many parts of the world in recent years. Advancements in tattoo pigments and the refinement of tattooing equipment has seen an improvement in the quality of tattoos being produced. Today it’s possible to get ink that glows under UV light, but a new technology could see tattoos that emit their own light. Researchers have been able to build thin, flexible silicon electronics on silk substrates that almost completely dissolve inside the body, paving the way for embedded LED tattoos that offer much more than just aesthetic appeal.

The devices are made of a thin film of silk on which silicon transistors about one millimeter long and 250 nanometers thick are placed. The silk holds the electronics in place and conforms to the biological tissue when implanted inside the body and wetted with saline. Unlike current electronic devices that need to be isolated from the body and are on rigid silicon, the silk substrates are completely broken down by the body into harmless by-products. And because they are just nanometers thick, the thin silicon circuits left behind don’t cause irritation.

Although the prospect of LED tattoos brings to mind science-fiction scenarios of gangs sporting futuristic illuminated designs that can be animated to move across a person’s body, the technology is being developed for medical applications such as photonic tattoos to show blood-sugar readings.

The technology also offers the prospect of arrays of conformable electrodes that could interface with the nervous system to allow improved control of prostheses. Also, arrays of silk electrodes conforming to the brain’s crevices thereby reaching regions inaccessible with current technology could be used to control Parkinson’s symptoms.

Silk is already approved for medical implants by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the researchers are able to control the rate at which it degrades, which can range from immediately after implantation up to years. Silicon has not conclusively been proven to be biocompatible, but all studies so far have shown it to be safe. The devices also contain gold and titanium, which are required for the electrical connections. Because they are biocompatible but not biodegradable the researchers are working on biodegradable contacts so that all that would remain inside the body is silicon.

The silk-silicon technology is being developed by researchers at the Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, Tufts University in Medford, MA, and the University of Pennsylvania. They managed to implant silk-silicon devices in animals with no adverse effects and no impact on the performance of the transistors on the silk. Their findings appear in a Paper published in the journal Applied Physics Letters.

Posted By: Gabriel Collins

Coin Opperated lamp

His Coin Lamp is the first product in a range based on the concept of values and reward, it subtly heightens awareness of consumption through design.

Turned on by a coin-operated switch, the lamp is set to predetermined time by an internal mechanism. Developed with the assistance of a NESTA training program the final version of coin lamp will be available soon.

posted by Helen Ice

Future Designer Laptop

www.orkin-design.de
The device of the flexible display allows a new concept in notebook design growing out of the traditional bookformed laptop into unfurling and convolving portable computer.
By virtue of the OLED-Display technology and a multi touch screen the utility of a laptop computer with its weight of a mini-notebook and screen size of 13 inch easily transforms into the graphics tablet, which with its 17-inch flat screen can be also used as a primary monitor.
On top of everything else all computer utilities from power supply through the holding belt to an interactive pen are integrated in Rolltop. This is really an all-in-one gadget.

Erik Roth

Next to a Jetpack I want this!

o the WaterCar Python comes as a bit of a surprise, looking for all the world like a pimped-out pickup truck, but offering blistering performance both on land and water. With the right engines built in, this hot rod can make mid 12s at the drag strip, hit 60mph in 4.5 seconds, and burn up the highway at well past 120mph - and it's capable of more than 60mph on the water as well - a true performance boat once the wheels are lifted out of the way. Crazy stuff!

Posted By: Jeremy

The sun will shine tomorrow

The Sharp Corporation has developed a compound solar cell that has achieved a conversion efficiency of 35.8 percent. Developing a new base layer for its triple-junction compound solar cell has improved on Sharp's previous conversion efficiency by almost four percent.

Posted By: Jeremy Kerbs

The Future of Mobile Communications

Nokia Morph –

Take a step back from normal life just for 5 minutes and have a look at what Nokia and the University of Cambridge have been working on – Nokia Morph, nanotechnology for mobile phones.

This amazing new technology has limitless possibilities, not just within mobil ephones but technology in general especially when it comes to price and convenience.

Dr. Tapani Ryhanen, Head of the NRC Cambridge UK laboratory, Nokia, commented: “We hope that this combination of art and science will showcase the potential of nanoscience to a wider audience. The research we are carrying out is fundamental to this as we seek a safe and controlled way to develop and use new materials.”

Professor Mark Welland, Head of the Department of Engineering’s Nanoscience Group at the University of Cambridge and University Director of Nokia-Cambridge collaboration added: “Developing the Morph concept with Nokia has provided us with a focus that is both artistically inspirational but, more importantly, sets the technology agenda for our joint nanoscience research that will stimulate our future work together.”

Just take 5 minutes to watch this video – exciting times ahead!

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX-gTobCJHs]

Source: Nokia Press

Eric Layton 8 Nov 2009

Inflatable seat belt could help save lives

Michael Barkoviak - November 6, 2009 9:53 AM

U.S. automaker Ford announced it will introduce a new seatbelt airbag that will first find its way into automobiles starting with the 2011 Ford Explorer SUV.



The Ford system operates by placing a small cylinder of cold compressed gas that sits underneath the rear seats, with an inflatable bag located in the seatbelts. After a vehicle impact occurs, this new system is designed to spread the force of impact over more parts of the human body, which helps reduce the amount of impact felt by the human chest.

Eric Layton 8 Nov 2009

Give these scientists a hand

Posted: Jeremy Kerbs

Artficial hand gets us one step closer to cyborg-dom

"Scientists have successfully wired a state-of-the-art artificial hand to existing nerve endings in the stump of a severed arm."

Posted: Jeremy Kerbs

Sharp LR0GC02 Solar Panel Mobile Phone Charging Device Gets BIG Thumbs Ups

Sharp Corporation has developed industry’s thinnest solar module which can power up mobile devices other than its residential uses. The LR0GC02 Solar module can find its use on mobile phones like Samsung Blue Earth for its incredibly slim thickness of just 0.8mm.

The usage of solar module is drawing attraction as it proves to be the cleanest energy of all. The maximum power generated by the module is 300mW which is sufficient to be used as an auxiliary power source for the mobile phones. Device Manufacturers have the facility of changing the electrode pattern on the cell surface which leads to design flexibility of the devices. Hope we will see some solar powered in near future.


posted by Helen Ice

Days Look Brighter with Lithium

Boliva is the poorest country in South America, but that could all change as it is now found to be the worlds largest source of lithium; not a bad place to be with the environmental steps going forward.

Lara

Flower Power

The manufacturing of Toyota's Prius hasn't been the brightest green in the Crayola box, but is making bolder marks for it's future and ours. Toyota has created two new species of flowers that offset carbons...

Lara

Could Worm glue repair broken bones?

bioengineers have looked beyond metal hardware and have now duplicated a natural glue secreted by the tiny sandcastle worm.

Posted: Jeremy Kerbs

Xerox develops silver ink to print low cost circuit boards

What does this mean? everything!

Soon we may print stuff for electronics inexpensively for prototyping.

Posted: By Jeremy Kerbs

I am going to start packing one of these and charging $1 a shot

Handpresso Wild is at the core of the NOMADIC ESPRESSO. Simple, light, elegant and compact, it works without electricity. It has all the basic qualities to make a premium quality coffee anywhere.

Travels with you
Small and handy, it travels with you on holiday, at weekends, on trips… With Handpresso Wild, you can enjoy your espresso inside as well as outside, thus creating a recreational and friendly moment wherever you want.

Makes perfect coffee
Handpresso Wild prepares a tasty espresso with a perfect crema. An outstanding quality obtained by a high-pressure extraction, a patented Handpresso system. “ A fine and smooth crema, subtle aromas, a structured body, a lengthy finish: a “vintage” coffee!”


Packs away
Light and well-made, Handpresso can be stored easily in a drawer or hung with the kitchenware. It requires no maintenance and guarantees a premium quality in every cup.

How does it work?
Nothing is easier! Just pump the machine to 16 bar, add hot water from a kettle or a thermo insulated bottle and an E.S.E. pod. Then, serve a premium quality coffee in your cup by pushing the button.

Eric Collins

Neat packaging

Unique tea packaging!




posted by Helen Ice

Oil Rig Hotels

Jetson Green published an article back in February talking about an innovative reuse for oil rigs; convert them to luxury eco-hotels. The "green-ness" of the idea becomes a little more apparent when you read the article and find out that the standard disposal method for abandoned oil rigs is to blow them up. When you consider that in the Gulf of Mexico alone there are about 4,000 of these bad boys, the concept starts to have some green merit.

It's an interesting thought. I don't exactly know what your demand generators would be, but I suppose it could be neat. Maybe it's the trendy rooms, or if not, it's definitely the water ski performers that would push me over the edge. You just don't see too many good water ski performers these days...

Better Batteries

Venom introduces world's first carbon neutral alkaline battery

Posted: Jeremy Kerbs

CO2-neutral transport is on the horizon

Much of our consumption that produces greenhouse gases can be blamed from transportation of goods. An initiative in Sweden is working towards a co2 neutral alternative.


Posted: Jeremy Kerbs

Plastic Concrete: Building Bricks Made From Landfill Waste

Recent RPI Masters of Architecture graduate Henry Miller has devised a way to reuse waste plastic as an aggregate in cement, circumventing the energy-intensive process of plastic recycling. By grinding up landfill-bound plastic and mixing it with portland cement, Miller was able to create a material just as strong as traditional concrete made with mined aggregate. The ingenious solution netted miller first place in the “Component Category” of the second annual Concrete Thinking for a Sustainable World competition.

Using recycled materials is so hot right now, but using them as aggregate is hotter than Hansel in a black shirt on a summer Sunday. While living in Albany, Miller saw many areas cut their plastic recycling programs for the cheaper (now) solution of landfills, and noticed the astounding number of brownfield sites that were simply being abandoned. Miller’s idea: Why not use plastic waste as an aggregate in concrete and create a more sensible product. By mixing together ground-up plastic with cement and soil reclaimed from the brownfields, Miller was able to create a material just as strong as conventional concrete.

The Concrete Thinking for a Sustainable World competition only asked students to conceptualize a design, but Miller he was not satisfied with a mere idea. He actually used his plastic concrete to build a screen and a wall. In doing so he showed that his ideas were viable alternatives to the status quo and that there was no excuse to merely fall in line.

Describing his project, Henry Louis Miller states: “Recycling plastics is a difficult, energy intensive process, and yields a product that is inferior to the virgin material. I have researched the possibility of using granulated, post consumer waste plastics as the aggregate in concrete. In this application, unlike plastics can be universally mixed with no adverse affects, heat driven re-amalgamation is not required, and my early test results show the resulting product is as strong as conventional concrete mixes (between 3000 and 5000psi.) As a result of using plastic rather than conventional aggregate, the mining of new material to serve as aggregate is not necessary.”

posted by Helen Ice

The End of Driving

From Driving to Riding
Research revealed that self-driving cars, once a fantasy requiring an entirely new infrastructure, are now technologically possible, even inevitable. Savvy robotics are here and real. Advances in GPS, sophisticated sensors, and navigation databases will allow driverless vehicles to operate on the same roads we have today.

Jed

Google removes Pirate Bay from index

gooooooooglebay.jpgThe irony being that searching for "Pirate Bay" now brings up the infinitely shiftier piratebay.com. From the Google results:

In response to a complaint we received under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 4 result(s) from this page. If you wish, you may read the DMCA complaint that caused the removal(s) at ChillingEffects.org.

The DMCA complaint isn't yet available at Chilling Effects. But plenty of real piratebay.org pages still show up; presumably the DMCA claim wasn't well-formed enough to actually accomplish its objective.

New electronic shift system for road bikes

coming in 2009

Wired's Eric Hagerman reports on Shimano's planned launch of an electronic gear-shifting system for expensive bicycles:

By replacing the conventional levers that pull wound-steel cables through protective housings with solid-state switches and rubber-coated wires, there's no chance for road gunk to clog things up and interfere with shifting, or, for that matter, your post-ride beer.

The principle of an electronically controlled drive train is to execute perfect shifts every time, thus "reducing mental overhead," in the words of Shimano marketing manager Devin Watson. This is a resource cyclists find in short supply during epic rides.

The system, called Di2, will be available in January, marking the end of a years-long development process. Says one anonymous source: "The shifting is mind-blowing: I mean, you just touch the button, and it shifts."

Photo: Wired

Shimano Shuns Cables for Full Electronic Shifting [Wired]

Soon, even our bicycles will need to hooked up to a computer in order to fix.:(

posted by Helen Ice

Teddy Bear Cracker

Gizmodo: Step away from the limousine, or I’ll shoot you with this … teddy bear? The Teddy Bear Gun capitalizes on a cutesy trend in Japan where wedding guests throw teddy bears at wedding receptions instead of rice or bouquets.

If teddy bear throwing sounds like a lot of work to you, here it’s made easy with a simple touch of a button. Pull the trigger and the tiny plush bear is catapulted into the air, and once airborne, it’ll float safely back to earth thanks to its tiny parachute. Made by paintball gun manufacturer Sunamiya, the party crackers will go on sale this month.

posted by Helen Ice

Emoticon T-ShirtEmoticon T-Shirt

Let your feelings shine out.

This cool light-up t-shirt features four different emoticons that you can choose to illuminate depending on your mood or the message you wish to convey. Emoticons are the way that you can convey emotion over the internet or in text messages and now you can select a light-up emoticon to display on the front of your t-shirt. You can show a happy face, a sad face, a winking face or a surprised face, depending on how you feel. A glow in the dark/UV reactive screen print completes the effect.

posted by Helen Ice

TheFunTheory.com

I've never embeded a vid before...I don't know how to save a file from youtube.
Click the link above to go to youtube.

Or, here it is again: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lXh2n0aPyw&feature=related

posted by Helen Ice

the ErockIT – 50 mph pedal electric hybrid motorcycle

The idea of an electric-assist bicycle has been around for some time, with Aprilia’s Enjoy the first really convincing argument that the genre had a future – now there’s another variation on the electric pedal-assist theme, but the ErockIT is much more a motorcycle than a bike, and indeed, it might be one of the quickest forms of inner city transport on the planet. The whole thing weighs just 110 kilograms and with over 45lb/ft of torque and 13bhp, it can top 50mph.

The torque characteristics of an electric motor are very different to a roadgoing motorcycle powerplant – the aforementioned 45lb/ft of torque is available from standstill, and the linear nature of the power delivery makes it very easy to control. As a rule of thumb, on circuit racing, we have observed that an electric bike with Xbhp will run about even with an internal combustion engined motorcycle with 3X bhp – this would put it in commuter 250 roadbike territory for acceleration, and the 50 mph top speed is suitable for just about anywhere other than an autobahn or freeway.

Around town, it will be a rocketship and light and manoeuvrable enough to make breeze of weaving through stopped traffic – a better town motorcycle than currently exists.

Unlike the Aprilia Enjoy, where the electric motor assisted the rider to pedal when more torque was required, the ErockIT drives the rear wheel from an electric motor , and pedalling assists the motor. This very exciting development in the inevitable move to electric two-wheelers will cost around EUR 25,000 (US$39,000) and will be available in limited quantities in 2009

Eric Layton 20OCT2009

The Finger Hinge prevents fingers being caught in the door

By Jude Garvey

11:20 October 8, 2009 PDT
The Finger Hinge is a unique door-hinge that stops fingers being caught in the side of the...

The Finger Hinge is a unique door-hinge that stops fingers being caught in the side of the door


Children and adults can suffer painful injuries, or even risk amputation, from getting their fingers caught between a door and the door jamb. A unique door-hinge design from an Australian inventor could prevent these injuries from occurring. The Finger Hinge is a full-length door hinge that completely eliminates the gap between the door and the wall and therefore removes any possibility of getting crushed fingers when the door is closing.

The Finger Hinge is made from a combination of butt and pivot hinges. It fits on the door jamb and door edge just like a conventional hinge. However, unlike other door hinges, it is made of rotating, meshed segments so it does not leave a gap when the door begins to close. The hinge barrel is the same width as the door edge and can rotate 90 degrees in either direction of the door egress. It can be fitted to new and existing doors and is suitable for home, office and industrial doors.

The hinge allows the door to swing through 180 degrees, giving it a two-way operation. This allows people in wheelchairs and the elderly, who may have difficulty opening doors towards them, to simply open the door away from them and not have to close it behind them. The door can also be locked to prevent it slamming shut, and fitting an internal door closing device inside the Finger Hinge allows it to be used as a door closer or automatic door opener.

The inventor, David Ashard, has been working on door inventions for some years. His original design for a door-hinge was intended to make it stronger but he realized the potential for a hinge that would prevent door jamb injuries.

The Finger Hinge is currently in production, but you can see how it works here.
Posted BY: Gabriel Collins

ChemBot: the shape-shifting robot that is the stuff of nightmares

By Darren Quick


We’ve looked at robots that use a variety of ways to get around, from caterpillar treads, to wheels, legs, wings and even combustion-driven pistons. But the title of weirdest (not to mention unsettling) method of robot propulsion we’ve come across has to go to the shape-shifting ChemBot from iRobot. The ChemBot, which looks more like the Blob than most people’s preconceived ideas of what a robot should be, moves around by changing its shape in a process its creators call, “jamming skin enabled locomotion.”

Jamming is a physical process whereby a material is made to transition from a liquid-like to a solid-like state by increasing its density. The ChemBot achieves this process thanks to its hyper-elastic skin composed of multiple cellular compartments. These compartments are filled with air and loosely-packed particles. When the air is removed, the decrease in pressure constricts the skin and the particles shift slightly to fill the void left by the air, resulting in the solidification of the compartment.

Beneath the ChemBot's jammable skin is an incompressible fluid and an actuator that can vary its volume. Unjamming various compartments of the ChemBot’s skin and inflating the interior actuator causes the Chembot's skin to stretch, changing the shape of the robot. It is this method of controlled inflation that allows the ChemBot to roll around.

It should come as no surprise that the ChemBot is the result of US$3.3 million award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the U.S. Army Research Office given to iRobot to “develop a soft, flexible, mobile robot that can identify and maneuver through openings smaller than its actual structural dimensions to perform Department of Defense (DoD) tasks within complex and highly cluttered environments.”

The disturbing video below of the ChemBot in action is as it appeared about a year ago, so it’s anyone’s guess how much more creepy the ChemBot is now. Apparently, it has a slightly different design and its creators are working towards including sensors on its body and even connecting multiple ChemBots. Yes, the Blob lives.
Posted By: Gabriel Collins

New camera promises to capture your whole life

A camera you can wear as a pendant to record every moment of your life will soon be launched by a UK-based firm.

Originally invented to help jog the memories of people with Alzheimer's disease, it might one day be used by consumers to create "lifelogs" that archive their entire lives.

Worn on a cord around the neck, the camera takes pictures automatically as often as once every 30 seconds. It also uses an accelerometer and light sensors to snap an image when a person enters a new environment, and an infrared sensor to take one when it detects the body heat of a person in front of the wearer. It can fit 30,000 images onto its 1-gigabyte memory.

The ViconRevue was originally developed as the SenseCam by Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK, for researchers studying Alzheimer's and other dementias. Studies showed that reviewing the events of the day using SenseCam photos could help some people improve long-term recall.

Jed

The Fat Powered Boat

Eco-boat powered by human fat attempts round the world speed record

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The fastest eco boat on the planet will attempt to break the round the world speed record using fuel made from human fat.

Pete Bethune, the New Zealand skipper of Earthrace, said the attempt to circumnavigate the globe would begin from Valencia in Spain on March 1 next year.

Bethune and his wife mortgaged their house and sold everything they own to help make the project happen, while continuing to seek support from sponsors.

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Record breaking attempt: Earthrace will attempt to circumnavigate the globe running 100 per cent biodiesel, and with a net zero carbon-footprint
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Eco Boat

Earthrace is a 78 foot alternative fuel powered wave-piercing trimaran, it can carry 3,000 gallons of fuel, and weighs 23 tonnes when fully fuelled

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-503419/Eco-boat-powered-human-fat-attempts-round-world-speed-record.html#ixzz0UFDxdtHz


http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=boat+powered+by+fat&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=1GbaSq_hGIuj8AaZ59W3BQ&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&ct=title&resnum=4&ved=0CB0QqwQwAw#


I couldn't find if it broke the record or not...

Jed

The First Submarine With Panoramic Views Ever

The Alicia Submarine Has An Acrylic Pressure Hull Wich Alows For 360 Degree Underwater Views. It Can Dive To A Depth Of Over 300 Meters.
Posted by Nathan Tommer

Awesome Electric Motorcycle with interesting lithium-salt battery

Posted By Nathan Tommer

Quicksilver

Found this while researching new materials, an interesting blog on Mercury


Posted: Jeremy kerbs

Creepy Robot Dog

Darpa project with serious possibilities


Unbelievable: Boston Dynamics BigDog (March '08) - Watch more funny videos here


A Spoof of Robot dog




Posted By: The Juggernaut also known as Jer-Bear formerly called gentile Jeremy Birth named Jeremy Kerbs

Be honest we all want a tail!

Posted by The Juggernaut AKA Jeremy

The MIT'z are so awesome

I/O Brush | Viral/Other | SPIKE.com

Posted By Jeremy

The Fun Theory

We believe that the easiest way to change people's behavior for the better is by making it fun to do. We call it The fun theory.

Take the stairs instead of the escalator or elevator and feel better” is something we often hear or read in the Sunday papers. Few people actually follow that advice. Can we get more people to take the stairs over the escalator by making it fun to do?



To throw rubbish in the bin instead of onto the floor shouldn’t really be so hard. Many people still fail to do so. Can we get more people to throw rubbish into the bin, rather than onto the ground, by making it fun to do?



Erik Roth

D&AD Creative Search: A new search aggregator for designers

Petter Prinz, Kaspar Prinz and Phillip Cristofor of the D&AD Student Awards 2010 have just launched Creative Search, a new search aggregator especially for designers conducting visual research.

The idea is simple: search for a term and the site will show results from a number of different search queries. This is not a new idea, but the curation of search engines is specifically targeted for designers, including results from Google Images, Google Blogsearch, Flickr, iTunes, YouTube, Twitter, Amazon and Wikipedia. There's also a Save/Share option that will send a permalink of your search to you via email or to others through a number of social networking sites.

Erik Roth

Another Cool Eco Material Recycled Aluminum Resin

Sweet Material! Click on tittle for link.
Posted by Nathan Tommer

Interesting Material Paperstone

Cool Stuff! Click on tittle for link

Posted by Nathan Tommer

Change By Design

In his new book, the CEO of design shop IDEO shows how even hospitals can transform the way they work by tapping frontline staff to engineer change.

As the center of economic activity in the developed world shifts inexorably from industrial manufacturing to knowledge creation and service delivery, innovation has become nothing less than a survival strategy. It is, moreover, no longer limited to new physical products but includes new sorts of processes, services, interactions, entertainment forms, and ways of communicating and collaborating.

These are exactly the kinds of human-centered tasks that designers work on every day, and over time they have evolved a body of skills to help them do it. It is time for this type of thinking—design thinking—to migrate outward and upward into the highest levels of leadership.

click on title to read more


Posted by Helen Ice

Reflecting on a new generation of mirrors

Non-reversing mirror

This mirror does not produce a "mirror" image, making it possible to read reflected text normally.

Hicks, a mathematician at Drexel University, Philadelphia, used computer algorithms to generate the mirror's bizarre surface, which curves and bends in different directions. The curves direct rays from an object across the mirror's face before sending them back to the viewer, flipping the conventional mirror image.

As well as neat tricks like this, Hicks' models make it possible to design mirrors that provide wide angled-views or eliminate distortion.

List of the kinds of mirrors:
Driver-side mirror
Parabolic mirror
Perspective rectifying mirror
Infrared mirror
Cylinder mirror

click on title to read the descriptions.


posted by Helen Ice

I cant wait!

Posted by Erin Wheeler

Vaporwear: Lamborghini Shoes

Vaporware. It's what technophiles call the promise of invention that never seems to materialize. What you see here, however, redefines the term. We'll call them vaporwear, as this exotic pair of pumps exist only as a concept. They were designed on computer by Tim Coopers as a conceptual product for Tonino Lamborghini, the product design company run by the famous sportscar-maker's son. The design is inspired by the Lamborghini Gallardo Supeleggera, and incorporates carbon fiber heels. The image you see here is as close as anyone will get to seeing these shoes walking the streets, so click to view it in high resolution.


Posted by: Erin Wheeler

Sekai Camera application for iphone

Another reason that ipod touch must have a camera.. :-)


posted by ted shin

This is creativity! if you haven't seen... watch!

Mariana

Chemical Linked to Aggression in Girls

Click on title for more info about this:

Mariana