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 [...]
Planned Portuguese Eco-City Is Controlled By A Central Computer Brain
Posted by admin in Design, Electronics on 13. Oct, 2010 | 0 Comments
Urban Operating System Living PlanIT via Fast Company A new eco-city planned in Portugal takes a cue from biology, using a centralized computer “brain” to control functions like water use, waste processing and energy consumption. It’s the biggest attempt at urban metabolism, which attempts to compare cities to living organisms. PlanIT Valley, in southern Portugal [...]
Canadian Student Becomes First Human to Fly By Flapping Wings
Posted by admin in Design on 23. Sep, 2010 | 0 Comments
Snowbird The Snowbird weighs just 94 pounds but has a wingspan that nearly matches a Boeing 737. A Canadian engineering student achieved sustained flight in a human-powered ornithopter for the first time in August, and has just filed a claim for a world record, according to the University of Toronto. The Snowbird is the first [...]
Pearl River Necklace bridge: a twisted solution to an unusual traffic problem
Posted by admin in Auto, Design on 12. Jul, 2010 | 0 Comments
The Pearl River Necklace concept design Luckily there aren’t many countries that drive on the opposite side of the road and share borders. However, they do exist, such as China, which drives on the right, and the former British colony of Hong Kong, and former Portuguese colony of Macau, both which drive on the left. [...]
Nifty Low-Res Design Process Drops Polygons From Lamborghini Countach, Beauty Ensues
Posted by admin in Auto, Concept, Design on 07. Jul, 2010 | 0 Comments
Lo-Res Lambo United Nude Lo Res Project This is a Lamborghini Countach. It was created by taking a hyper-accurate 3-D model of an actual Lamborghini (made up of millions of polygons), then gradually decreasing the resolution of the model with 3-D software until the object is lo-resed down to its stealthy essence. United Nude, a [...]
