Trees Infused With Glowing Nanoparticles Could Replace Streetlights
Posted by admin in Concept, Design on 12. Nov, 2010 | 0 Comments
Someday, This Tree Could Be Producing Its Own Light nauright on Flickr Taiwanese researchers have come up with the elegant idea of replacing streetlights with trees, by implanting their leaves with gold nanoparticles. This causes the leaves to give off a red glow, lighting the road for passersby without the need for electric power. This [...]
OLED glasses are your own personal 3D home theater
Posted by admin in Concept on 30. Aug, 2010 | 0 Comments
Carl Zeiss has been making their Cinemizer video glasses for a few years, but now they added 3D capability for home theater and gaming applications. The Cinemizer Plus video glasses have a tiny 16:9 format OLED screen in each eyepiece, with a native resolution of 640 x 480 pixels. The resulting field of view is [...]
The SeaKettle life raft will make drinking water from the sea
Posted by admin in Concept on 02. Aug, 2010 | 0 Comments
The Sea Kettle concept life raft not only aims to provide shelter from the elements but also drinking water from the sea The thought of folks suffering from extreme dehydration whilst stranded in a life raft at sea got industrial designer Kim Hoffman thinking of a way to turn all that sea water into safe, [...]
One Man’s Giant Pacific Garbage Patch Is Another’s Beautiful Island Nation
Posted by admin in Concept on 16. Jul, 2010 | 0 Comments
Aerial Rendering of Recycled Island Recycled Island Project It’s an ambitious recycling project to be sure, but Dutch visionaries want to turn the Pacific Garbage Patch into a self-sufficient, green island paradise that draws its resources from the ocean and the garbage floating therein. “Recycled Island” would be a nearly 4,000-square-mile oasis with three primary [...]
What Would the Earth Look Like if it Stopped Spinning?
Posted by admin in Concept on 08. Jul, 2010 | 0 Comments
Equatorial Megacontinent Witold Fraczek What would happen if the Earth stopped spinning? We don’t have any reason to think it will in the next few million millennia, but Witold Fraczek, an employee of geographic imaging software company ESRI, was curious. He used ArcGIS, the company’s flagship software, to build a virtual model of the planet [...]
