Electronic Sticky Notes on Thin, Flexible Solar Cells are the Future!
I’ll be honest. Part of me knows it’s 2016 and time we do away with paper sticky notes, but the other part of me uses paper sticky notes all the time and doesn’t have a…
Design
An Industrial Designer Built a Functional Car Comprised Almost Entirely of Wood
Industrial designer and woodworker Joe Harmon has spent the past five years constructing a car made of wood. The neat thing, however, is that it’s actually drivable and not to mention has a perfect name…
Oakley Collaborated With Intel to Create Radar Pace Sunglasses You Can Talk To
First unveiled at CES last year, the Radar Pace sunglasses from Oakley and Intel are now available to the public. Essentially, the Radar Pace shades act as your training coach while you’re biking or whatever…
Bruges Just Built an Underground Pipeline for Beer
Under the streets of the medieval Belgian city of Bruges, a two-mile-long underground pipeline for beer is being built. But hold on beer lovers…don’t start dreaming of getting beer on tap just like water. This…
The Growroom is a Spherical Farm Pod That Brings Food Producing Architecture to Cities
Space10 and architects Mads-Ulrik Husum and Sine Lindholm have tried to bring nature to cities by co-creating a multi-sensory pavilion that shows how we do farming in our cities. The Growroom is their prototype, and it…
The Rapid Progress of Precision Machining & Surface Finishing
Everyone is familiar with the simple metal household screw. And yet the manufacture of metal screws requires a complex machine so that every screw in a batch has the same dimensions, hardness, and durability. Machines…
World’s First Emission-Free 4-seater Fuel Cell Plane, the HY4, Takes Off in Germany
Scientists got closer to creating zero emission passenger flights with the first flight of an emission-free hydrogen fuel cell four-seater electric aircraft, the HY4. The HY4 aircraft took off on its 10-minute test flight from…
Juno Sends Back Closest-Ever Images of Jupiter “Like Nothing We Have Seen Before”
NASA recently uploaded the most detailed and exceptional images of Jupiter ever taken, saying these closest-ever images of Jupiter are “like nothing we have seen before.” The Juno spacecraft, which entered Jupiter’s orbit in July…
Open Data Plan Making New York City Smarter, More Efficient
Creating New Opportunities with Open Data As is the case with many large cities, the amount of information that needs to be managed is absolutely mind-boggling. To make matters worse, the existence of scores of…
Plain Bearings Offer Performance, Economic Advantages Over Rolling-Element Bearings
Plain bearings are replacing rolling-element bearings in a wide range of products including pumps, wind turbines, and equipment for agriculture and construction. Once it was thought that complex parts required complex rolling-element bearings, but designers…
