If you haven't seen the MS surface, you should this is amazing!
Love,
Jeremy Kerbs
3.9.09
Cool computer interface
This is a cool six sense to help rid ourselves of cumbersome technologies while still maintaing a connected society
Love,
Jeremy Kerbs
Love,
Jeremy Kerbs
2.9.09
Solar Panels Built Into Roads Could Be the Future of Energy
The Department of Energy just gave $100,000 to upstart company Solar Roadways, to develop 12-by-12-foot solar panels, dubbed "Solar Roads," that can be embedded into roads, pumping power into the grid. The panels may also feature LED road warnings and built-in heating elements that could prevent roads from freezing.
Each Solar Road panel can develop around 7.6 kwh of power each day, and each costs around $7,000. If widely adopted, they could realistically wean the US off fossil fuels: a mile-long stretch of four-lane highway could take 500 homes off the grid. If the entire US Interstate system made use of the panels, energy would no longer be a concern for the country.
Jed Davis
Each Solar Road panel can develop around 7.6 kwh of power each day, and each costs around $7,000. If widely adopted, they could realistically wean the US off fossil fuels: a mile-long stretch of four-lane highway could take 500 homes off the grid. If the entire US Interstate system made use of the panels, energy would no longer be a concern for the country.
Jed Davis
Smart home knows just how you like your breakfast
Humans are creatures of habit, as a sensor-stuffed apartment at Washington State University in Pullman knows. The smart home can learn the ways of its inhabitants simply by observing how they walk around and use different appliances.
The technology could be used in houses to support people with cognitive difficulties or dementia with their daily living needs, or to make things easier for healthy people.
The apartment can, for example, recognise when a person is performing actions associated with making breakfast. If the person absent-mindedly leaves a stove burner on, the system can spot the anomaly and prompt them with audio and video signals to return to the hob.
Jed Davis
The technology could be used in houses to support people with cognitive difficulties or dementia with their daily living needs, or to make things easier for healthy people.
The apartment can, for example, recognise when a person is performing actions associated with making breakfast. If the person absent-mindedly leaves a stove burner on, the system can spot the anomaly and prompt them with audio and video signals to return to the hob.
Jed Davis
Free Book! From Concept to Consumer
Phil Baker is early with holiday cheer this year so we’re giving away 4 copies of his amazing book From Concept to Consumer. I reviewed it earlier this year and found it to be an amazingly precise outtake and outlook on industrial design. All you have to do is leave a comment with what your favorite Yanko Design post is and why. Don’t forget to fill in the email field because how else am I going to contact you when you win?!? You have until September 5th. posted by Ted
Brazillian Engineer Solves Energy Crisis with 2-Liter Bottle
Amazing Concept could Revolutionize The developing World. Click On Tittle For Link
Nathan Tommer
Nathan Tommer
31.8.09
Wi-Fi for Life
Pacemakers go wireless so patients can be monitored by their doctor from afar.
Posted by Lara Pageler
New Colour Added to the Spectrum?
Dye is now being used to create a more effective solar cell.
Posted by Lara Pageler
30.8.09
Don't buy Brazilian wood! watch the movie "They Killed Sister Dorothy"
trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVaqqPURp1U
This movie is a true story about an American Nun who was trying to save the Amazon.
If you buy Brazilian wood check for this (image below) logo! if it doesn't have this logo it is illegal wood! If I was you I wouldn't buy any Brazilian wood or any product that has Brazilian wood in the USA. I strongly believe that every Brazilian wood that gets here is illegal wood. Heads up! Do your research!
Mariana de Salles Ewell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVaqqPURp1U
This movie is a true story about an American Nun who was trying to save the Amazon.
If you buy Brazilian wood check for this (image below) logo! if it doesn't have this logo it is illegal wood! If I was you I wouldn't buy any Brazilian wood or any product that has Brazilian wood in the USA. I strongly believe that every Brazilian wood that gets here is illegal wood. Heads up! Do your research!
Mariana de Salles Ewell
New lighting technology seeks to revamp or replace incandescent bulbs
July 8, 2009 at 9:05 am by Jessica McCormick
Back in 2007, when Congress passed a law setting more stringent rules on the manufacture of light bulbs, a lot of people sounded the death knell for Thomas Edison’s incandescent bulb. Australia got rid of them, along with a few other countries, and news articles and blog entries in the United States dubbed the planned phasing out as a full-on “ban.” Now, with President Obama’s most recent call to make lighting more efficient in homes and businesses, it again seems that the incandescent bulb will go the way of the dodo in the name of energy savings.
Or will it? It seems that some folks are instead using this governmental push for efficiency as the kick in the pants they needed to finally stop making outdated products.
As one example, companies like Deposition Sciences, an optical-coating company in California, are working to make special reflective coatings to surround an incandescent bulb’s filament and make it more efficient. When a tungsten filament is used to make light, most of the energy is actually wasted in the form of heat, not light. It is hoped that special coatings can make a heat mirror that will reflect heat back into the filament and transform that into light. So far, such coatings have created only a 30-percent increase in efficiency in bulbs that have been sold so far, but Deposition Sciences says it has gotten a 50-percent increase in the labs. This tech is being used in bulbs like the Philips Lighting Halogena Energy Savers. Such bulbs are reputedly not as efficient as CFLs, but they do create an alternative to the slower start-up times, potentially dangerous mercury content and other components that lead some to criticize CFLs.
However, some people have just bitten the bullet and focused on non-incandescent options, like working with LED bulbs. LEDs (light-emitting diodes) can be clustered together to make a larger light source, like a bulb you can stick in that lamp on your end table. The advantage is that, through the joys of parallel circuitry and the like, if one little diode dies, there are still plenty other diodes pumping out light like nothing’s wrong, so the “bulb” lasts for a good long while. The disadvantage is that such bulbs are expensive - usually ranging from $65 up to $100 and $120 apiece. Now, I like the concept, and mercury is also not a factor with these bulbs, but I don’t want to have to sell my liver just to buy one. Here’s hoping scientists can think up a way to lower the price tag.
The bottom line is that legislation might be getting tougher, but innovations in energy efficiency might just help the future look a little greener (and brighter, natch).
-Posted by: Erin Wheeler
Back in 2007, when Congress passed a law setting more stringent rules on the manufacture of light bulbs, a lot of people sounded the death knell for Thomas Edison’s incandescent bulb. Australia got rid of them, along with a few other countries, and news articles and blog entries in the United States dubbed the planned phasing out as a full-on “ban.” Now, with President Obama’s most recent call to make lighting more efficient in homes and businesses, it again seems that the incandescent bulb will go the way of the dodo in the name of energy savings.
Or will it? It seems that some folks are instead using this governmental push for efficiency as the kick in the pants they needed to finally stop making outdated products.
As one example, companies like Deposition Sciences, an optical-coating company in California, are working to make special reflective coatings to surround an incandescent bulb’s filament and make it more efficient. When a tungsten filament is used to make light, most of the energy is actually wasted in the form of heat, not light. It is hoped that special coatings can make a heat mirror that will reflect heat back into the filament and transform that into light. So far, such coatings have created only a 30-percent increase in efficiency in bulbs that have been sold so far, but Deposition Sciences says it has gotten a 50-percent increase in the labs. This tech is being used in bulbs like the Philips Lighting Halogena Energy Savers. Such bulbs are reputedly not as efficient as CFLs, but they do create an alternative to the slower start-up times, potentially dangerous mercury content and other components that lead some to criticize CFLs.
However, some people have just bitten the bullet and focused on non-incandescent options, like working with LED bulbs. LEDs (light-emitting diodes) can be clustered together to make a larger light source, like a bulb you can stick in that lamp on your end table. The advantage is that, through the joys of parallel circuitry and the like, if one little diode dies, there are still plenty other diodes pumping out light like nothing’s wrong, so the “bulb” lasts for a good long while. The disadvantage is that such bulbs are expensive - usually ranging from $65 up to $100 and $120 apiece. Now, I like the concept, and mercury is also not a factor with these bulbs, but I don’t want to have to sell my liver just to buy one. Here’s hoping scientists can think up a way to lower the price tag.
The bottom line is that legislation might be getting tougher, but innovations in energy efficiency might just help the future look a little greener (and brighter, natch).
-Posted by: Erin Wheeler
The bike lane that travels with you
URBAN TRANSPORT
The bike lane that travels with you
By Jude Garvey
03:17 June 26, 2009 PDT
LightLane creates a brightly-lit lane around and behind cyclists to improve safety at night
The first automobile crash in the United States is said to have occurred in 1896, in New York City, when a car crashed into - surprise, surprise - a bicyclist. Even today, despite the introduction of reflective gear, helmets and lights, cyclists are still very vulnerable, particularly at night. Enter LightLane – a clever concept that uses lasers to project a virtual bike lane on the ground behind and around the cyclist.
Conceived by Alex Tee and Evan Gant from design firm Altitude Inc., LightLane will mount under the seat and project up to 10 feet behind the rider, giving approaching drivers a clear visual guide to ensure they stay well clear of cyclists at night.
A prototype is in development and the designers hope to have a product ready for Interbike in October.
Gabriel Collins
Eric Giler demos wireless electricity
Eric Giler wants to untangle our wired lives with cable-free electric power. Here, he covers what this sci-fi tech offers, and demos MIT's breakthrough version, WiTricity -- a near-to-market invention that may soon recharge your cell phone, car, pacemaker.
Gabriel Collins
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