Tag: Concepts &Amp; Prototypes - Page 7
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Ford Rides into Frankfurt with E-Bike
Joining Daimler's smart car, BMW, Audi, and Land Rover, Ford Motor enters the E-Bike world with a two-wheeled concept vehicle, which made its debut at the 2011 Frankfort Auto
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The Week in Pictures: Camping Trailer is also a Boat, Cats Nap in TVs, and More (Slideshow)
Wouldn't it be nice if you could just take your car from road to lake? Well now you can, and while camping to boot: This wild design morphs a trailer from a tent into a boat.
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Smartphones As "Digital Keys" Coming To Doors Near You
The dematerialization continues, right down to our keys. The plastic ID badges that people hold up to readers at doorways to get into secure areas could soon be replaced by simply holding up your cell phone.
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MIT's Vibration-Powered Charger 100x More Powerful Than Competitors
While the concept of gathering energy from small vibrations is not new
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Laptop Becomes A Stovetop with Electrolux Mobile Kitchen Concept
Deisgner Dragan Trenchevski has come up with a concept any college student would love. Or anyone living in a tiny apartment, really. It is a laptop that acts not only as a digital cookbook, but as a cooking surface too. Usually
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Tiny Concept Commuter Bike Folds Up To Just 8 Inches
This tiny folding bike might be the smallest, most easily portable pedal-powered transportation we've seen...but is it practical?The concept design featured on Yanko Design is by Weiche Wu & Minhan Lin, and it has some definite
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Solar Panels Act As Sails for Shipping Vessels
An innovative concept of using solar panels as both sails and photovoltaic energy producers on ships is moving forward to the "detailed design" phase, according to developer Eco Marine Power. The Fukuoka, Japan-based company
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13-Year-Old Makes A Solar Breakthrough With Fibonacci Sequence
One would be excused for suspecting that Aidan Dwyer, said to be 13, is in fact a small, very young-looking, 37-year-old college-educated con-man of the highest order. Such is not the case though for what
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Synthetic Skin From Spider Silk Heals Wounds
Researchers have been looking for better alternatives for providing skin grafts to wounds, and it turns out they need look no further than the animal kingdom. Spider silk is legendary for its strength, as well
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Erasable E-paper Can Be Printed, Erased, Reprinted Over 250 Times (video)
Researchers have created a new e-paper can be printed and erased over and over again, and they hope it can be a reusable solution for the posters and signs printed by the millions for bus stop ads and store front displays.
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Heat Transfer Breakthrough Cools Computers
In what it calls a "fundamental breakthrough in heat transfer technology for microelectronics," the U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories has developed the "Sandia Cooler" - aka, the Air Bearing
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Human-Powered Drill Strikes Water in Tanzania, Offers Hope for Cheaper Wells (Video)
When it comes to drilling new wells for water, the cost can be prohibitive as heavy machinery needs to be brought in to do the digging. However, a team of students from Brigham Young University came up with a
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Solar-Powered Bike-Bus Concept Makes Traveling As A Tourist Easy and Green
A designer named Kukil Han from Seoul has posted his well thought-out innovation for a linked vehicle system he calls Bike Guide that would allow people to travel to tourists destinations around the South Korean
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Minimalist Table and Stool Reduce a Work Space to Bare Bones Basics
At TreeHugger, we're a little obsessed with work space designs: desks made for standing, sitting, a little of both and even walking. Here's a design from British designer Adam Senior that takes a minimalist approach to
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An Electric Ride Caters to Drivers with Disabilities
There are a lot of electric vehicle designs out there. From from rickshaws to off-road taxis to wooden buggies, just about everyone can find an EV that suits them. Now a Colombian team has a new
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Less is More; a Dinner Table for Two Reduced to Its Essence
This designer from Valencia in Spain believes that even if you have little money and/or space, a dinner for two should always be possible on a decent table. Daniel Gantes designed La Cool Vie Bohème so that couples with a
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Build Your Own Automated Greenhouse for Effortless Gardening (Video)
This might be one of the coolest Arduino projects I've seen for gardening to date. Clover, aka Clovercreature on Instructables, and Revoltlab.com combined efforts to build a greenhouse that has automated water and temperature controls,
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Solar Cells Can Now Be Printed on Anything, Even Paper and Fabric
Researchers at MIT have figured out how to print photovoltaic cells on every-day materials like paper or fabric -- and the process is practically the same is printing this article out on your desk printer.
