[breyn-i-keyn] Brainstorming on a Higher Level
The Solar Decathalon teams are really kicking things up a notch this year. First we see the Penn State team using celebs, like Ed Begley Jr. Next we see the Virginia … Read the full story on TreeHugger
Why do I love the idea of downloadable designs? Because people do such amazing things out of so little substance, and they ship ideas, not objects. Like this iPhone stand designed by french industrial designer Julien Madérou, downloadable from his website Dessine Moi Un Objet. It is folded out of a single sheet of paper.
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Babies starved of oxygen at birth have a much lower risk of brain damage if they are given mild hypothermia, research suggests.
Images: Zipcar
Car-Sharing Goes High-Tech
Car-sharing is a great way to have most of the benefits or owning a car without most of the downsides. Zipcar, one of the heavy-hitters of the car-sharing world, has release a new iPhone and iPod Touch free app that will make interacting with the company’s reservation service and vehicles better than […]
Images: Zipcar
Car-Sharing Goes High-Tech
Car-sharing is a great way to have most of the benefits or owning a car without most of the downsides. Zipcar, one of the heavy-hitters of the car-sharing world, has release a new iPhone and iPod Touch free app that will make interacting with the company’s reservation service and vehicles better than […]
John Pucher
We have noted before that suburbs make you fat. Now research by John Pucher of Rutgers University suggests that cars make you fat.
And before you start commenting “correlation does not imply causation”, consider that it makes a great deal of sense. Blogger Felix Salmon calls it the Urban Diet, noting that people […]
Photo via Engadget
So Kindle seems to be bombing out among university students as a replacement for textbooks, at least in one trial run. But we mention that the Tablet from Apple could be a better solution since it is more interactive, and more familiar to anyone currently using an iPhone. And word on the street […]
All images via Stonebee Barnsley Hill Farm
And we all just immediately say yeah, right, a 20,000 square foot house can’t be green. But let’s ignore that, let’s pretend that ten families are getting together and moving in (the home theater seats 25, just perfect!) and have a look at what Stonebee Developments is actually offering […]
Photographs by Gerry Kopelow
That’s what the CTBUH (Council for Tall Buildings) calls Manitoba Hydro Place, designed by Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects, with Architect of Record Smith Carter Architects. They have long been among the best architects in the country, and with this building become one of the greenest.
Winnipeg is really cold, (hence the […]
Photo credit NASA via Discovery News
Of all the strange ideas I’ve heard, this tops the list. The amount of catalogued space debris within our planet’s orbit increased by nearly 50% since 2007, so DARPA wants to gather ideas for how to clear space junk from Earth’s orbit. James Hollopeter of GIT Satellite lends one idea […]