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| Feb 16, 2023 | High Pointe Golf Club’s $24 Million Revival Speeding Along In Northern Michigan | The land where the new clubhouse will be located High Pointe Golf Club |
| Aug 1, 2022 | Why Oman is investing in alt protein with a US 🍄 startup | Nearly one in three people in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region lack access to adequate food, according to the UN Food & Agriculture Organization.
The MENA region faces numerous challenges in food and nutrition security: a ... |
| Jul 4, 2022 | Freelancing Offers New And Innovative Career Options In Areas Like Sustainability | Getty getty |
| Apr 22, 2022 | 20 photos of off-grid homes that will make you want to move to the middle of nowhere | Travel 20 photos of off-grid homes that will make you want to move to the middle of nowhere
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| Jan 21, 2022 | The problem with homelessness ‘innovation’ | Wherever people experience homelessness, others are working to address it with innovation.
Recently, I catalogued some of the more notable homeless services innovations from the past two decades. Taken individually, many of these interventi... |
| Jan 19, 2022 | Stilride is using industrial origami to make electric mobility more sustainable | While electric vehicles are better for the environment per mile than a petrol car, manufacturing them still has a significant environmental impact. Producing the many components needed to build electric cars, bikes and motorcycles and then ... |
| May 27, 2021 | People are eating cicadas for the protein benefits – but there are health risks to cicada cookies, cocktails, and pizzas | Many people eat fried insects, including cicadas, as a source of protein. Ivan/Getty Images
With trillions of cicadas flying around, some people have decided to eat the insects.
Cicadas are rich in protein, and eating them is better for the... |
| Feb 18, 2021 | Tesla Model 3 and Model Y Price Update: Lowered Price Will Now Start Below $37,000! | Joen Coronel, Tech Times 18 February 2021, 05:02 am
Tesla has recently announced a brief update for the Model 3 and Model Y cars' prices, which were made cheaper than before. You can now get one with a starting price of under $37,000. Find ... |
| Aug 12, 2020 | This major grocer is stocking up on Plenty’s indoor grown greens | US West Coast grocery chain Albertsons today announced a new agreement with indoor farming startup Plenty to stock its vertically grown greens across 430 California store locations.
The produce aisle represents $60 billion in annual sales, ... |
| Jul 1, 2020 | 5 remote work facts every employer should know | Image: 12963734, Getty Images/iStockphoto Must-read CXO coverage
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| Oct 28, 2019 | Don’t Spook The Planet: 8 Eco-Friendly Tips For A Greener Halloween | 99 1
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Halloween is just around the corner! While Halloween is always a good excuse for a whole lot of fun and games, it usually produces a scary amount of waste. To avoid being too spooked out by your eco footprint thi... |
| Jan 11, 2019 | I Spent a Day at the 'World's Best Airport' and It Was Pretty Good | At roughly half the size of Los Angeles, Singapore is one of the smaller countries on the planet. But what it lacks in land mass, it makes up for in opulent, massive edifices that convey the country’s wealth, draw in tourists from around th... |
| Feb 21, 2018 | Испанский стартап создал одноразовые бумажные батареи | Стартап из Барселоны Fuelim представил экологичные бумажные батареи, каждую из которых можно использовать только один раз. Об этом пишет Inhabitat.
В составе такой батареи есть только бумага, углерод и нетоксичные металлы, утверждают ее соз... |
| Oct 15, 2017 | Self-driving cars and shipping containers | The most wonderful and most terrible things about new technologies are their emergent properties. The latest example is, of course, Fake News On Facebook; who would have thought that connecting everyone via social media would lead to wildly... |
| May 26, 2017 | Maior usina solar flutuante do mundo começa a gerar energia | A China sofre há décadas com a poluição atmosférica, consequência do rápido crescimento e da dependência de carvão para energia. O país quer mudar isso rápido, construindo usinas solares a toque de caixa — e uma delas é flutuante.
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| Jan 13, 2017 | Would you eat a 3D printed pizza? | Could you imagine serving a 3D printed turkey for Christmas lunch? Or munching on a 3D printed pizza for an afternoon snack?
This is not as far fetched as it sounds. While 3D printers have mainly been in the news for their ability to manufa... |
| Dec 23, 2016 | Would you eat a 3D printed pizza? | By Deborah Lupton, University of Canberra and Bethaney Turner, University of Canberra
Could you imagine serving a 3D printed turkey for Christmas lunch? Or munching on a 3D printed pizza for an afternoon snack?
This is not as far fetched as... |
| Oct 7, 2016 | Massive attacks feared after code leak | In this edition of the Worldwide Wrap: Computer code used to mount one of the biggest Web attacks has been released online, and Alphabet's Google to unveil Amazon Echo rival, Google Home.
Massive attacks feared after code leak
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| Sep 30, 2016 | HP apologises for ink-blocking update | In this edition of the Worldwide Wrap, HP has backtracked on a software update that blocks the use of some ink cartridges made by third parties, and iPal, a robotic nanny, currently babysitting children in China, is set for the US soon.
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| Sep 16, 2016 | Blockchain start-up raises $55m | In this edition of the Worldwide Wrap, Ripple, a Google-backed start-up that uses blockchain technology to settle financial transactions has raised $55 million and Facebook has chosen a village in New Mexico as the location for its new data... |
| Sep 14, 2016 | The Controversial Plan to Kill 45,000 Wild Horses to Make Room for Cattle Farming | What image could be more evocative of freedom than that of wild horses, galloping over the plains, their manes elegantly flowing in the breeze? It's a 90s screensaver-worthy image—but one that couldn't be farther from the truth for some 45,... |
| Aug 26, 2016 | Microsoft Excel blamed for gene study errors | In this edition of the Worldwide Wrap: Microsoft Excel is blamed for gene study errors and Bournemouth University has been hit by ransomware 21 times in one year.
Microsoft Excel blamed for gene study errors
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| Aug 5, 2016 | Uber faces ban in Taiwan | In this week's edition of the Worldwide Wrap: Uber faces ban in Taiwan after authorities say the e-hailing taxi service was registered as a software company, and Yahoo develops an AI anti-harassment program.
Uber faces ban in Taiwan
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| Mar 24, 2016 | Microsoft AI learns racism from Twitter | In this week's Worldwide Wrap, Twitter users quickly imparted racist views into Microsoft's AI chatbot, and Facebook will soon alert
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| Feb 16, 2016 | How we could 3D print buildings using robots and drones | By Paul Shepherd, University of Bath
These days, 3D printing is never far from the public eye. Its vast and imaginative array of applications is constantly growing, from life-saving medical implants to life-ending firearms. Now, architects ... |
| Jan 29, 2016 | Netherlands trials driverless buses | Green IT takes the stage in this week's worldwide wrap, as the Netherlands rolls out self-driving buses, Tesla unveils its first home battery, and a creative way of reducing clothing waste crops up in Sweden.
Netherlands trials driverless b... |
| Nov 27, 2015 | Humai wants to resurrect humans using AI | In this edition of the worldwide wrap, Los Angeles-based Humai wants to bring people back from the dead using artificial intelligence and an inventor with motor neurone disease has developed a wheelchair he controls with his eyes.
Humai wan... |
| Nov 20, 2015 | 'Turn it off and on again' - Apple | In this week's worldwide wrap, Apple turns to a tried-and-tested solution for device glitches, and Tumblr makes gif-making easier.
'Turn it off and on again' - Apple
Apple has told iPad Pro users to simply turn the device off and on again i... |
| Nov 2, 2015 | 40% of unicorn IPOs since 2011, now under pre-IPO valuation | Companies in 2003 were seeing returns of over 6 times pre-IP valuation, now it's less than 2 times
We've all seen what's happened in the private market the last few years: Valuations skyrocketing to nearly unprecedented levels; Companies li... |
| Aug 28, 2015 | The ‘green-tech’ future is a flawed vision of sustainability | What does your vision of a sustainable future look like? Some people imagine a scenario whereby technology solves the world’s most pressing environmental problems.
In this world we all drive electric cars and have solar panels on our roofs ... |
| Aug 25, 2015 | Seattle’s “Up” house is getting its own movie | The tale of the small Seattle-area home that rose to fame after the owner famously turned down $1 million for her home even as a shopping mall was being built around her and was once used to promote the Disney film “Up,” because of its simi... |
| Jun 30, 2015 | Seattle’s “Up” house now facing demolition | A truly unique Seattle-area home that boasts neighbors like L.A. Fitness and Trader Joe’s is on the verge of being torn down, a sad end to a tale that many likened to a real-life ‘Up.’
Earlier this year, HousingWire wrote about the home of ... |
| Jun 18, 2015 | Baltimore may be getting another trash-collecting water wheel | Mr. Trash Wheel may soon have a Canton cousin.
The Waterfront Partnership’s Healthy Harbor Initiative is raising money to build a second trash-collecting water wheel off the Boston Street Pier Park. Like the original, it will be solar- and ... |
| May 26, 2015 | Rob Arcidiacono – founder of Madeforward | website twitter facebook LinkedIn
Robert (Rob) Arcidiacono graduated from Queensland University of Technology in 2006 with a Bachelor in Built Environment and a Graduate Diploma in Industrial Design. Following a two year period working as a... |
| Feb 13, 2015 | Robot attacks owner | In this edition of the Worldwide Wrap, robot vacuum cleaner tries to eat its owner in her sleep; and Facebook has unveiled a new "legacy contact" feature that will allow users to select a family member or friend to control certain... |
| Feb 6, 2015 | The ULTIMATE spite house hits the auction block | The tale of Edith Macefield is apparently local legend in the Seattle area. In 2007, she famously turned down $1 million for her home, even as developers were literally building a shopping mall around it.
Macefield, who died in 2008 at the ... |
| Jan 30, 2015 | Facebook bigger than China | In this edition of the Worldwide Wrap, Bill Gates insists artificial intelligence is a threat; and a team of students at California College of the Arts in San Francisco has developed autonomous, mobile 3D printing robots that could someday ... |
| Jan 14, 2015 | Moovit, the app for bus and subway riders, takes $50M onboard | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Let Uber, Lyft, and those guys manage the world of the cab or car service.
Today, startup Moovit — whose headquarters city of San Franc... |
| Jan 14, 2015 | Moovit, the app for bus and subway riders, takes $50M onboard | Let Uber, Lyft, and those guys manage the world of the cab or car service.
Today, startup Moovit — whose headquarters city of San Francisco boasts the legendary cable cars — has raised $50 million to help people who depend on subways, buses... |
| Oct 10, 2014 | Ebola-killing robot | In this edition of the Worldwide Wrap: a germ-killing robot designed to rid a room of dangerous viruses in minutes is being used to keep hospitals
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| Sep 24, 2014 | This Kid Plans to Rid Oceans of Plastic Using Giant Nets and Natural Gyres | Boyan Slat's story is not quite that of a 20-year-old Wunderkind who magically found a potential fix to a longstanding problem. It's perhaps more accurately described as a combination of personal dedication and trial and error. When going t... |
| Sep 19, 2014 | Breathe to talk | In this edition of the Worldwide Wrap, a device designed to let people communicate using just their breath has been developed, and a Nigerian IT worker is being sought by police for his alleged role in co-ordinating a $40 million cyber thef... |
| Aug 15, 2014 | Siri used in murder trial | In this edition of the Worldwide wrap five policemen in India are being investigated for alleged corruption after officials received complaints on a newly-launched helpline number, and Man U has introduced new rules that prevent fans from b... |
| Aug 8, 2014 | Pill films insides | In this edition of the Worldwide wrap a futuristic 'Pillcam' has been developed to show up any abnormalities inside the human body, and a man who allegedly ran a service that provided roundabout access to pirated films and music files has b... |
| Jul 18, 2014 | A Duck-Shaped Solar Pavilion Could Help Power Copenhagen | Images via
Since about 30% of that the sun's output just uselessly bounces back into space once it's done here on Earth, given modern fossil fuel anxieties, it makes perfect sense that solar energy is the hottest area of sustainable energy ... |
| Jul 4, 2014 | Tweeting is cheating | In this edition of the Worldwide wrap, the more active a couple is on Twitter, the more likely they are to be unfaithful to each other; and a Brooklyn-based artist and programmer has built a tool that allows users to run Facebook's controve... |
| Jun 20, 2014 | Mass attacks on dating sites | In this edition of the Worldwide wrap: Britain's tech start-ups have been asked to contribute their ideas for improving the nation's health in a new programme and Lego has unveiled a reality app that brings real-life toys built out of the b... |
| Jun 13, 2014 | Exoskeleton kicks off World Cup | In this edition of the Worldwide wrap a paraplegic man kicked off the soccer World Cup competition in Brazil yesterday using a mind-controlled exoskeleton and Xbox One owners are complaining that a new TV advert is switching their consoles ... |
| Apr 28, 2014 | Aquifi Changes The Computing Interface With A Wave Of The Hand | After three years in stealth mode, the magicians behind the motion capture technology that powers Microsoft’s Kinect, are launching Aquifi, the next step in their development of motion capture technology.
With backing from Benchmark Capital... |
| Apr 14, 2014 | How Burrowing Owls Lead To Vomiting Anarchists (Or SF’s Housing Crisis Explained) | The Santa Clara Valley was some of the most valuable agricultural land in the entire world, but it was paved over to create today’s Silicon Valley. This was simply the result of bad planning and layers of leadership failure — nobody thinks ... |
| Feb 21, 2014 | Worldwide wrap | In this edition of the Worldwide wrap, researchers at the University of Sheffield have introduced the concept of a lie detector to analyse information shared on social media and an e-cigarette wirelessly connects to smartphones and tablets.... |
| Feb 14, 2014 | 10 Crazy Things 3D Printers Can Make Today | It’s been over 30 years since Chuck Hull invented the first 3D printer in 1983. Ever since then, the idea of machine-printing objects from scratch has gone from fiction to reality, opening up new opportunities for every field from science t... |
| Jan 17, 2014 | Worldwide wrap | In this week's wrap, Australian scientists have micro-chipped bees to track changes in their movement; and a social media Web site for robots is set to be introduced. Get the details on these stories and more below.
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| Dec 31, 2013 | Renewable ‘pedal power’ to light Times Square ball tonight | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Never let it be said that New York City doesn’t g... |
| Dec 5, 2013 | Worldwide wrap | In this week's wrap, a young man in the UK attempts to broadcast his suicide to the world; and men with beards commonly select the easiest passwords to crack. Get the details on these stories and more below.
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| Nov 26, 2013 | The next frontier in innovation: It’s a material world | This sponsored post is produced in conjunction with Ford.
Material science majors, rejoice! Now is your time to shine. As people become more aware of how humans interact with the planet, it’s becoming clear exactly how much we consume in ma... |
| Jun 3, 2013 | Student Wins Intel Science Fair; Threatened With Patent Infringement Claims For Patent Not Yet Granted | So it goes in America. No one’s immune from the threat of patent litigation, not even 18-year high school students in possession of an award-winning science project in one of the most prestigious science fairs around. (Tip of the hat to TD ... |
| Jan 9, 2013 | Four reasons why will.i.am’s next consulting client should be in healthcare | It wasn’t the VC from Andreessen Horowitz or the digital health entrepreneur who had the most important message for healthcare companies.
At the CES Next Generation of Innovators keynote it was the singer-turned-inventor who had the cleares... |
| Oct 11, 2012 | Scoot Networks - A New Way To Get Around SF | When I come to SF, I generally don't rent a car. I've used cabs and more recently Uber to get around. But many times I just walk from meeting to meeting around SOMA where most of the tech companies are.
This week I tried something different... |
| Oct 5, 2012 | Japanese scientists achieve 20% increase over lithium-ion batteries using sugar | Scientists at the Tokyo University of Science have revealed they are working on sodium-ion batteries, which can be created from refined sugar, claiming they have achieved a 20% increase in energy storage capacity over equivalent lithium-ion... |
| Jun 14, 2012 | UrbanFarmers develops second product | |
| Jun 5, 2012 | Kyocera grows 'green curtains' | Kyocera grows 'green curtains'
Kyocera is well known for its solar panels, but the Japanese company greens up its own buildings with more than just solar, writes Clean Technica. The company also grows 'green curtains' on trellises around it... |
| Oct 18, 2011 | Apple Wins Big with Two More Solar Energy Related Patents
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Apple has received a Granted Patent that relates to new methods and apparatus for assembling integrated circuit components to substrates; and more specifically relates to improved... |
| Sep 7, 2011 | Design Student Starts Blog, Grows it, Sells it: Inhabitat Gets Acquired by Internet Brands | Jill Fehrenbacher, founder of leading green design blog Inhabitat, announced this morning that her nearly seven-year-old site has been acquired by media network Internet Brands.
Fehrenbacher says she started the site when a student, as a wa... |
| Jun 25, 2011 | These Car Prototypes Built By Kids Can Do Close To 2,000 Miles Per Gallon | What’s more impressive than a car that can do over a thousand miles per gallon? One that was designed by school kids.
In the UK, students from regional schools and universities took part in the annual Mileage Marathon Challenge near Leicest... |
| Apr 14, 2011 | Ioxus Raises $21 Million For Improved Power Storage Technology | A New York-based clean tech startup, Ioxus, raised $21 million in a round from Energy Technology Ventures (a GE-NRG Energy-ConocoPhillips joint fund), Northwater Capital, Aster Capital and their previous backers Braemar Energy Ventures, the... |
| Mar 23, 2011 | World's Highest Solar Array To Be Built In Tibet | SunTech Power Holdings is planning on building a major solar power installation at one of the highest inhabited places on the planet: the Tibetan Plateau. The county of Sangri, 4000m (13,123ft) above sea level, has been chosen as the site f... |
| Feb 14, 2011 | iPad users leap 537% in mobile ad network | A report from Mojiva notes that unique iPad users skyrocketed by 537% in its ad network in 3 months
Mobile media ad network Mojiva on Monday released a report finding the iPad's unique user audience grew by a jaw-dropping 537% between Novem... |
| Feb 3, 2011 | eStar From Navistar Is Another Electric Delivery Van | There’s another electric van on the market, though a much bigger one. It’s called the eStar EV and it’s made by Navistar, the same company that makes those huge International trucks. The van hits that industry standard 100 mile range, but i... |
| Jan 19, 2011 | Driving [is] For Dummies | Not to be outdone by Google’s self-driving car, which made its public debut a few months ago, the European Union’s own experimental self-navigating car made its first real world road test near Volvo’s test facility in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Th... |
| Dec 28, 2010 | Bamboo Bike Kit Lets You Build… Yes, A Bamboo Bike, How Did You Know | We see bamboo here and there on CrunchGear (the Dodocase, laptops, bikes), but I’m usually suspicious of bamboo-type products, because they usually make specious claims of greenness. This kit seems useful, though, if only because it provide... |
| Dec 11, 2010 | Electric Composters Don't Say "Holiday," Where To Buy Green Tech Gifts Online | Reasonable people understand this by now: environmentalists aren’t all tree hugging vegetarians with unwashed hair — not that there’s anything wrong with that — and tech enthusiasts aren’t all oblivious to the burgeoning problems of energy ... |
| Sep 17, 2010 | And Why Shouldn't I Build A Wii Balance Board Into My Sneakers? | Here’s a weird project. Instead of using a Wii Balance Board to play those Wii Fitness and such games, disassemble the hardware and stuff it into a pair of perfectly good Nikes. I’m not sure it’s entirely practical in this case, but my gadg... |
| Aug 20, 2010 | Rotating Solar House Generates Five Times The Energy It Consumes | What’s cooler than a rotating house? One whose solar panels produce five times the energy the house uses. That’s pretty incredible, considering that even zero-energy structures are rare.
German architect Rolf Disch built the home, called He... |
| Aug 13, 2010 | These Concept OLED Lights Are Brilliant | Get it, brilliant? Okay, I’ve had my fun. Down to business. The concepts in this gallery at Inhabitat are designs exploring potential of a certain size of OLED panel. The one above was designed by Emory Krall for Universal Display.
The idea... |
| Jul 5, 2010 | Roundup: Venrock raising $350M, what it takes to be a top 100 website, and more | Here’s the latest action:
Venrock raising $350 million? — Venrock may be playing smaller ball, like many of the other venture capital firms in Silicon Valley, expected to announce tomorrow that it has raised a $350 million new fund (half th... |
| Jun 11, 2010 | Like algae? Love lamps? Please read. | Just now you were wondering, “how can I get more algae in my day-to-day life?” Well, maybe not then, but you are now. Now. Now. See? So now that you’re wondering it, I have an answer for you. I know! Such a lucky coincidence! Or maybe it wa... |
| Jun 1, 2010 | Finally, a worthwhile use for all those old National Geographics | I love National Geographic, but man, there are a lot of them out there. How many basement bookcases sag under the weight of 20 years of National Geographics? It’s one of those magazines that people tend to keep rather than recycle after rea... |
| Jun 1, 2010 | Apple's Vision of a Solar Cell iPhone Supports Prototype in the Wild
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In Apple's patent FIG. 8 we see a depiction of a block diagram illustrating various functional modules associated with this patent including one or m... |
| Apr 8, 2010 | New LED lightbulb will last 17 years | CFL bulbs are great, but the mercury they use can be harmful. LEDs don’t use mercury, but the technology is still pretty rough, and it’s tough to get something that resembles a normal lightbulb from them. There’s been a couple of examples o... |
| Apr 5, 2010 | NASA takes on climate change with new $2.4B | With manned spaceflight programs nearly a thing of the past, NASA is handing the shuttle-building baton to private interests like Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic and Elon Musk’s Space X program. But the administration may be finding new l... |
| Apr 5, 2010 | NASA takes on climate change with new $2.4B | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
With manned spaceflight programs nearly a thing o... |
| Mar 9, 2010 | Inverted, ocean-bound "seascrapers": aqua-communes for the future? | You guys, I’m freaking out about how cool these things could be. A recent skyscraper concept competition yielded some really interesting designs, among them this utterly amazing concept, which they inexplicably call a “water-scraper” instea... |
| Feb 22, 2010 | IBM, Broadband up efficiency and drop costs with thin-film solar experiments | Recent advances in materials and design have resulted in thin-film solar modules that are more efficient and affordable than ever. Now IBM has developed its own thin-film product that uses common metals instead of pricey silicon. And a Stan... |
| Oct 12, 2009 | LG sort of shows off a solar-powered ebook reader, but not really | Let’s talk about the word “unveiled” on gadget sites. Unveiled is a weasel world. It means “revealed” and suggests that the company in question is showing off something that it will make soon. It is used at CES, for example, with CES Unveil... |
| Sep 6, 2009 | And while you're at it, why not turn that old cassette tape into clothing? I mean, really. | Someone call LATFH. This is “Sonic Fabric,” and it’s made out of old cassette tape, um, tape. It’s 100 percent ridiculous, yes.
The fabric was invented (I guess that’s the word you’d use here) by one Alyce Santoro. The basic premise is to t... |
| Aug 5, 2009 | iPod Nano sleeves made from cassette tapes | Recycling cassettes seems to be a trend these days. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. After all, who among us doesn’t have a Fine Young Cannibals single that would be better suited to lamp or wallet duty? Or how about these great l... |
| Apr 1, 2009 | April Fools: YouTube Flails, Amazon Cloud Computing In A Blimp, 3D Chrome Browsing, Google Masters A.I. | Wow. April Fools Is In full swing.
The Guardian goes all Twitter, ditching the printed version and the website. “Experts say any story can be told in 140 characters.”
Amazon launches a brand new cloud computing service called Floating Amazo... |
| Mar 5, 2009 | Well now, IKEA makes solar-powered lights | What’s that dumb joke, something about “why do you park on a driveway and drive on a parkway”? That logic doesn’t really hold up when you’re looking at something like these solar-powered garden lights. They’re IKEA’s first such “solar” prod... |
| Jan 21, 2009 | Hybrid Alcatraz ferry uses solar, wind, and petrol | The Hornblower Hybrid, as it is called, is a one-off ferry made to service the Alcatraz route. Normally when companies want to “go green,” they stick a solar panel on top, add a recycle bin and they’re done. It looks like these guys have go... |
| Dec 10, 2008 | Funds blow in for Mariah’s residential wind turbine | Mariah Power, manufacturer of the relatively compact Windspire energy system, has closed the first half of an undisclosed second round of financing (PDF) that it will use to purchase a $2 million share in a Michigan manufacturing plant. The... |
| Oct 29, 2008 | Kimberlina solar plant in California generates electricity like it's its job | Asura just opened the first-of-its-kind thermal energy plant in California, which should generate enough electricity to power some 3,500 homes. The best part is that this plant, which is named Kimberlina, is merely a proof of concept of sor... |
| Jul 24, 2008 | Notes for nerds: meet CrunchGirl | Well, hello there. It looks like I’ll be joining you from time to time to enlighten you on the many moods and musings of fair ladies everywhere, and maybe even attract a few of them (and let’s be honest, their advertisers) to the the site. ... |
| Jun 3, 2008 | Santa Monica builds solar powered ferris wheel lit by 160,000 LEDs | Santa Monica’s famous Pacific Wheel is gone, having lost the fight against new fangled technology – and man, the new wheel is blinged out. Sure, the it might not be the biggest. It’s probably not the fastest, either. However, it might just ... |
| May 22, 2008 | Light-emitting glass? Sure, why not? | Do you pretend to care about the environment because it’s the trendy thing to do? Simultaneously, do you like to display strange, avant-garde art around your domicile? If so, then take a gander at Saazs’ newest endeavor, light-emitting glas... |
| Mar 28, 2008 | ZeroHouse is entirely self-sufficient and prefabricated | [photopress:zerooohouseee.jpg,full,center]
Sick of your neighbors filing complaints against you for playing music too loud, when, in fact, those same neighbors are guilty of the same thing? (Whoops! Sorry, jerk neighbor!) Then you need a ho... |
| Mar 20, 2008 | 360 Vodka: World's first eco-friendly spirit | [photopress:360vodka.jpg,full,center]
Environmentally friendly vodka? That’s nice. Now every time you beat up your liver you’ll be helping save the planet.
360 Vodka, which has nothing to do with Microsoft’s video game console, comes to us ... |
| Feb 26, 2008 | Sweet "Enerjar" measures your appliance's power consumption | I saw a concept like this a while ago that was considerably slicker, but was of course just a CGI rendering. This is much more real and much more steampunk. Looks pretty awesome, in addition to being useful and interesting as well.
I like t... |
| Jan 17, 2008 | Nokia's 3310 Evolution hugs trees, does drum circles | I wanted to write up this phone while at CES because it was simply the most practical-looking phone there, felt good in the hand, and looked sweet. It wasn’t sensational enough at the time, but now we know that Nokia is doing it green-style... |