Tag: Concepts &Amp; Prototypes
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Emergency Solar Cooker Design Unfolds In Seconds
In an emergency or disaster relief setting, you want something that is as basic to use as possible. This design is perfect for that.
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Pinball Wizardry Earns Kiddies Kinetic Knowledge
A design for a kid's game has won a James Dyson Award, and for good reason. It teaches kids about kinetic energy all through a pinball-style game.
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Robot To Wash Solar Panels Among Winning Student Inventions
Students in a competition for the Department of Energy came up with some winning ideas, including an automated way to wash down solar panels for improved efficiency.
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Solar Charger Concept Uses Stretchable Solar Cell
Using a solar cell that can be stretched over a lithium battery to charge, this concept design is also made of biodegradable plastic. A winning idea?
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Food Scrap Shredder Cranks Up Composting
This is a great low-tech concept gadget for those of us who are lazy about composting!
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Foldable Solar-Powered Lantern Looks Like The Sun
This lantern concept design takes inspiration from light sources like campfires and candles, and uses smart packaging strategies for less waste.
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Clever Solar Street Lamp Design Straps On To Existing Lights
A concept for creating extra light without extra electricity would brighten up city sidewalks.
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Rooftop Fish Farm Ups the Ante for Urban Agriculture
The prototype Globe/Hedron is a bamboo greenhouse designed to organically grow fish and vegetables on top of generic flat roofs. It uses aquaponic farming techniques so the fish's water nourishes the plants and plants clean the water for the fish.
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Eco-Friendly Robots Will Decompose When They Die
How do you solve the problem of defunct robots? Instead of recycling them, make them decompose where they die.
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Airtube Earbuds Play Your MP3 Only When You're Actually Listening
Ever put your iPod in your pocket only to discover later that you never turned it off and it's been running for hours? These earbuds will solve that problem and spare your battery.
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9 Concepts for Cleaning up Space Junk
Litter isn't just a problem for terra firma, it's a very real problem in space as well. The effort to clean up space junk might take a variety of different methods, and here's a look at some of those concepts being considered.
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Hack Your Own Descriptive Camera In Minutes
Everyone loves Matt Richardson's Descriptive Camera, that turns photos into a text description. We offer a cheap and easy alternative.
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Next Gen TVs Could Be As Thin As Paper With New Breakthrough in Printed Electronics
An advancement in stable electrodes by Georgia Tech could mean electronics printed as thin as a sheet of paper.
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Promising New Passive House Designs for Bulgaria
Passive-house design seems tailor-made for helping bring Bulgarian living standards up to those of their EU counterparts with little to no increase in energy consumption.
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Gorgeous Kinetic Light Uses OLED Technology, Moves to Preprogrammed Choreographies
A beautiful way to use the latest OLED lighting technology to build thin, movable lighting sculptures.
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"Amplifiear" Electricity-Free Snap-On Speaker Design for iPads Boost The Volume
This smart, simple design boosts the sound coming from your iPad, so watching videos or listening to music is much more enjoyable.
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World's First 'Edible' Cookbook That you Read, Prepare and Eat (Photos)
No bookshelves in the kitchen? No problem. Edible cookbook's pages are made from pasta. You're meant to read, prepare and eat the book.
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Street Lamp and Fitness Equipment Blend Into Smart Lighting Concept
An unusual design dreams up how to combine all the joggers on the road with renewable electricity for better public lighting.
