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Play Lone Ranger With Plant-Fueled Horse (Tonto Not Included)

by Jerry James Stone, San Francisco, CA on 07. 7.09
Science & Technology

Project Nomad
Photo courtesy of Coroflot


Project Nomad is a mechanical vehicle concept by designer Jason Battersby.

The vehicle--designed like a horse--can climb steep grades and even navigate rocks and boulders. Best part, it finds its own fuel. Using a built-in GPS system, the horse seeks out vegetation which it then consumes and converts to fuel.

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Transport TW: Zero Emission Car Powered By Magnetic Fields

by Jerry James Stone, San Francisco, CA on 07. 2.09
Science & Technology

transporter tw
Photo courtesy of EcoFriend

Car designer Harsha Vardhan suggests that this two-wheeler concept is the car of the future.

His Transporter TW (Twin Wheel) is a single-seater electric vehicle that uses magnetic fields for driving the car. The two gianormous wheels, suspended over a superconducting fluid, are propelled by those shifting magnetic fields. Thus the power generation, and motion of the car, is a nice noiseless and smooth ride.

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Genius! Flatpack Power Plugs for UK Outlets

by Jaymi Heimbuch, San Francisco, California on 06.30.09
Science & Technology

This cool design by Min Kyo Choi revamps power plugs for UK outlets into flatpack structure, making them super space savers until you need to plug it into the wall, and then it's just a quick twist to turn it into the right shape for the outlet.

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Colorado Firefighter Training Goes Green

by Eric Leech, New York, NY on 06.27.09
Science & Technology

Firefighter Training Pollution Photo
Photo via: Amagill

While not often a target of environmental groups due to the increased preparation and safety it promotes, a firefighters training regiment is anything but green. Such training often involves the controlled burning of vehicles, hay, and wood structures. The byproduct of such a rigorous training schedule results in thick, black, billowing clouds of toxic smoke and fumes, which not only simulates the danger to the firefighters and victims, but also the environmental catastrophe these types of fires promote.

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Recycled Tire Logs Say to Pressure Treated Lumber, “Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better...”

by Eric Leech, New York, NY on 06.21.09
Science & Technology

Recycled Tires Photo
Photo via: www.EricCastro.biz

“I Can Do Anything Better than You!”

RTP Re-Tread Products is in the testing phase of a series of recycled rubber tire products designed to one day take the place of some of the applications where pressure treated lumber has traditionally been used. The benefit of such a trade-off would be less chemicals to leach into the ground (from the treated lumber), improved flexibility, and increased overall durability.

The tire logs are believed to be a very appropriate substitute for such applications as heavy equipment platforms, logging roadways, boat ramps, hurricane-prone building construction, highway separation, and flood-control barriers.

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New LED Bulbs by Sharp Can be Remotely Tuned Between 7 Shades of White

by Michael Graham Richard, Ottawa, Canada on 06.18.09
Science & Technology

led lightbulb tunable color japan photo
Photo: Sharp

Honey, I Feel More Like Cool White Today...
Sharp's introducing 9 new models of LED lightbulbs to Japan in mid-July, but the most innovative of those is the one pictured above (the others are below). What's that thing on the right? It's actually a remote control that allows you to tune the color of the DL-L60AV LED Lamp (Sharp calls it "Adjustable Color Function"), or of a series of those plugged into the same circuit. Why is that a good thing? More details on how it works and its performance below.

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MAKEA your life, other furniture is possible

by Petz Scholtus, Barcelona, Spain on 06.18.09
Science & Technology

MAKEA your life, a recycling project IMAGE

MAKEA stands for fixing it, customising, personalising, tuning things, adapting or basically making it beautiful yourself. It is an alternative to the throwaway culture (hence the reference to IKEA!). MAKEA, active since 2006, is a multidisciplinary group from Spain, fed up with our current way of consumption, the brands and their products that loose personality when they are not associated with the brand name any more. But MAKEA is a brand that sells nothing, they are doers and warn us about the infectiousness of the MAKEA virus (see MAKEA video on YouTube).

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Plug In America's Electric & Plug-in Hybrid Vehicle Tracker

by Michael Graham Richard, Ottawa, Canada on 06.16.09
Science & Technology

plug-in hybrid electric vehicle tracker image
Image: Plug In America

Track Plug-in Hybrids, Electric Cars, Electric Motorcycle, 3-Wheel Vehicles, etc
In the past few years, there's been a deluge of information about plug-in vehicles coming from almost every car company out there (plus many startups, motorcycle companies, etc). It can be hard to keep track of all the release dates, technical specifications, etc, so Plug-In America's Plug-in Vehicle Tracker promises to be useful. How does it work? It's very simple... Read on for more details.

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