Heating & Cooling Buildings With High-Tech Inflector Windows
More than 70% of all electricity consumed in the United States and more than 30% of carbon emissions come from efforts to warm people in the winter and cool them in the summer. Both jobs…
Design
King’s Hawaiian Automated Bakery Produces 8,000 Pounds of Bread an Hour
King’s Hawaiian (King’s) bread is nearly as well known as the Hawaiian Lei. For over 50 years, the company has been baking rounded lobes of sweet bread served up to tourists and purchased for friends…
Mouse-Box: Mouse That Has a Computer Rolled Into It
This mouse doubles as a full-fledged PC. It can either be used as a standard mouse or a fully working PC or both; you just need to add a monitor and keyboard. This ultimate compact…
Destroyed by Volcanic Eruptions, Ancient City of Pompeii Rediscovered With 190,000 Legos
Pompeii was a resort town in the Roman Empire near modern Naples in Italy. The town was buried under some 25 feet of volcanic material by the eruption of nearby Mt. Vesuvius in 79 A.D.…
U.S. Manufacturing & Middle Class Renaissance Highlights
Supporting U.S. Middle Class in the 21st Century As the U.S. economy slowly improves, American manufacturing is rebounding and companies find themselves cautiously optimistic: output and exports are increasing, new plants are being built, and…
Engineering Disney’s “Tower of Terror” Ride
Disney’s Tower of Terror delivers on the promise to terrify people with massive acceleration, speed, and stomach churning stops. The attraction, based on a “Twilight Zone” episode, is a six-minute walk-through murder mystery and ride in which…
AMO Breakthroughs Keep Atomic Clocks Accurate for More Than 60 Million Years
Controlling The Quantum World A recent breakthrough in the Cesium Fountain Atomic Clock in Boulder, Colorado improved the clock’s accuracy from about 1 x 10 -15 to 5 x 10 -16 seconds meaning it would not gain…
Amethyst Hotels: Dutch Firm “NL Architects” Offers a Gem of an Experience in Its Proposed Chain
Imagine yourself looking out from inside a giant amethyst cathedral geode. Admit it. The very idea of nesting in a crystal cave stirs something primal deep in your bones. And yet, it evokes something ethereal…
Crowds of People Climbed Into This Crazy Glowing Orb Under One of London’s Busiest Highways
London’s Light Night Canning Town is an annual light-focused installation art exhibit located beneath the city’s busy A13 highway. Last year, in November, many of the visitors to the yearly event were enthralled by London design…
Ben Ainslie Racing Partners With Low Carbon to Build Sustainable HQ
Ben Ainslie is one of the most successful sailors in Olympic history. He won four gold medals in four consecutive Olympics. Now he plans to build a high-tech headquarters for his commercial sporting team Ben…
