An Exclusive Behind-the-Scenes Look at the FireFly, an Ultra-Compact Camping Trailer Inspired by Space Travel core77.com After spending several years in the habitation department at NASA, developing living spaces for the International Space Station as well as multiple off earth exploration vehicles, designer Garrett Finney left in 2009 to launch his dream recreation… http://flip.it/m7Xto Related … Continue reading FireFly: space travel inspired ultralight camping pod
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The smart money is on renewable energy Tim McDonnell, grist.org Fossil fuel cheerleaders take note: Renewable energy ain’t going nowhere — and it may prove to be the better bet in the long run.By 2030, renewables will account for 70 percent of new power supply worldwide, according to projections released Monda… The smart money is … Continue reading Smart money is on renewable energy
Tweet-Mining For Crowd Management, Social Weather, And Emergencies BY BEN SCHILLER, fastcoexist.com It’s not just for insane hashtags anymore! Twitcident is mining the service to help manage everything from fires to crowded concerts. Twitter might seem like an enormous stream of aimless chatter. But, to an increasing number of agencies,… Tweet-Mining For Crowd Management, Social … Continue reading Twitcident: tweet mining for emergency management
April Joyner, inc.com Inc. magazine Apr 8, 2013 New apps and devices are bringing diagnosis and treatment straight to the end consumer. featured company Wellframe brings artificial intelligence to heart care. The Affordable Care Act put a… Thinking of Starting a Business? Check Out Consumer Health Technology http://flip.it/DF2GI http://flip.it/mkzag Thinking of Starting a Business? Check … Continue reading Thinking of Starting a Business? Check Out Consumer Health Technology
Why You Can’t Find Women Engineers: They’re Too Well-Rounded By: Anya Kamenetz, fastcompany.com “Not lack of ability, but more choice,” say researchers. Silicon Valley’s hottest companies are hurting for women engineers. And many pixels have been spilled trying to figure out why. The answer, according to a study released by Pitt… Why You Can’t Find … Continue reading Why aren’t there more women in engineering? Because they’re sane.
Retail | Start an Online Store With No Skills, No Stuff — And Now No Money Marcus Wohlsen, wired.com Forget software as a service. Welcome to the age of stuff as a service. Start an Online Store With No Skills, No Stuff — And Now No Money http://flip.it/1CXcC http://flip.it/S9uwB Related articles Software As A Service … Continue reading Finally you can get into ECommerce with no skills, no stuff and no money
Take Traffic Into Your Own Hands With This DIY Car Counter BY ZAK STONE, fastcoexist.com The TrafficCom lets you measure how many cars drive on your street and figure out traffic patterns. And you can now get one via Kickstarter—just like the guys at NASA. There’s something about the moment NASA places an order that … Continue reading DIY traffic monitoring
The Ultimate Air Purifier Uses NASA Technology By Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan, fastcodesign.com This $800 device, designed by NewDealDesign, zaps particles using titanium dioxide. As the space program shifted its focus from putting life into space to sustaining life in space, the plentiful technologies to emerge from its hollowed… The Ultimate Air Purifier Uses NASA Technology http://flip.it/QjvGU … Continue reading NASA based air purifier
Track Fuel Economy, Kill Check-Engine Lights With the Fitbit for Cars Damon Lavrinc, wired.com Everyone knows that mashing the gas, slamming on the brakes and cruising at high speeds kills fuel economy. And considering the average driver spends upwards of $3,000 a year on gas, you’d think people would be more inclined to change … … Continue reading Automatic: Fitbit for cars
How Mazda Reinvented the Diesel Engine By Lawrence Ulrich, popsci.com The company’s new diesel engine will get 44 mpg plus meet strict emission standards. Diesel-engine designers have long grappled with a dilemma: Reducing emissions meant either cutting efficiency or adding expensive equipment. With the… RT @PopSci: How Mazda engineers reduced pollution, boosted mileage, and nixed … Continue reading Mazda rethinks the Diesel engine with fewer emissions, max efficiency
Cloud Shield, Twine’s Gateway To The Full-Blown Internet Of Things By John Pavlus, fastcodesign.com Co.Design gets an exclusive first look at Cloud Shield, which makes Twine a full-blown internet device. Welcome to the Internet of Things. If you’re not afraid of hacking together a bit of code and plugging tiny wires into a credit-card-sized… Cloud … Continue reading Twine cloud shield and the Internet of things
The 3D-Printed Urbee 2 Hybrid Car is Light, Strong, and Nearing Production Morgana Matus, inhabitat.com Nothing says “Welcome to the Future” like a 3D-printed runabout vehicle with a hybrid engine, three wheels, speeds of up to 110 mph, and capacity to carry up to 1,200 lbs. The Urbee 2 is the result of Jim Kor’s … Continue reading 3d printed cars on the way
Beth Buczynski, inhabitat.com Read the rest of Adventurous Couple Meanders Down the Pan-American Highway in a Solar-Powered 1967 VW Van Beth Buczynski http://flip.it/GQzSr Adventurous Couple Meanders Down the Pan-American Highway in a Solar-Powered 1967 VW Van Related articles The Beauty that is Arenal, Costa Rica (truelovesjoy.wordpress.com) This Hot Pink VW Camper Van Is Blowing My … Continue reading Adventurous Couple Meanders Down the Pan-American Highway in a Solar-Powered 1967 VW Van
Big Tech: With $1 Trillion at Stake, Enterprise Technology Gets Its Star Turn Michael V. Copeland, wired.com Every 10 to 15 years the enterprise market goes through an upheaval where the next generation of technology replaces the old. We’re in the early stages of one of those big displacements right now, where huge companies are … Continue reading With $1 Trillion at Stake, Enterprise Technology Gets Its Star Turn :
Technology Ranks World’s Most-Trusted Industry in 2013 Zoe Fox, mashable.com The technology industry has been ranked most-trusted for the second consecutive year, ahead of the automotive, and food and beverage industries, according to the 2013 Edelman Trust Barometer.”As an industry, I think tech companies pre-anticipate a… http://flip.it/NoiKA Related articles Technology Ranks World's Most-Trusted Industry in … Continue reading Technology Ranks World’s Most-Trusted Industry
NASA Architect’s Cricket Trailer Showcases Space-Age Design | Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building dim says:, inhabitat.com The Cricket Trailer, designed by NASA Architect Garrett Finney, is a mini mobile home inspired by the tight but efficient quarters of the NASA space station. Finney, who helped design the “habitation module” where the … Continue reading Cricket Trailer Showcases Space-Age Design
The Government Open-Data Program At The Root Of Energy-Efficiency Startups BY BEN SCHILLER, fastcoexist.com The Green Button program has forced utilities to standardize the way they present their energy use numbers to their customers. In turn, that data has caused an explosion of apps and services to help you save energy—and money. It’s only a… … Continue reading The Government Open-Data Program
Diesel Tells You How Many Days Are Left In Your Life Joe Berkowitz, fastcocreate.com The brand expands on its “Time to Be Brave” philosophy by calculating roughly how much time each of its fans has in which to be brave.If you knew the extent of your projected longevity, it would probably change the way you … Continue reading Diesel Tells You How Many Days Are Left In Your Life
Satellite images of Earth, city lights at night Posted By: Bryan Chan, latimes.com Photography NASA has released images of Earth at night from the Suomi National Polar-Orbiting Partnership satellite that is orbiting 512 miles above the Earth’s surface. The agency stitched some of these images together to create a… http://flip.it/qaOMz Related articles This gorgeous video … Continue reading NASA shows that earth looks like one big disco ball at night
Fenix ReadySet | Popular Science popsci.com Energy storage, redesigned. The ReadySet portable base station can draw and store energy from a number of sources: A 15-watt solar panel charges its battery in seven hours. Next year, Fenix will release a kinetic generator, which can hel… http://flpbd.it/uIyLy Related articles Intelligent plug-and-play energy system charges by sun, … Continue reading Fenix ReadySet: Energy storage, redesigned
by liseman, instructables.com This Instructable explains how to use a gas sensor with your Arduino. This lets your Arduino smell (and hence you program responses to) overall gas levels for a variety of nasties, including ethanol, methane, formaldehyde, and a bunch o… http://flpbd.it/EypGF How To Smell Pollutants Related articles Arduino ADK LED Lighting (instructables.com) Shrunk … Continue reading Arduino: How To Smell Pollutants
Providence, RI Fab Academy Now Accepting Applications for 2013 By Brian Jepson, makezine.com The Fab Academy is a six-month long digital fabrication program directed by MIT’s Neil Gershenfeld, and based on his rapid prototyping course How to Make (Almost) Anything. The Fab Academy started as an MIT outreach program, an… http://flpbd.it/dNjyn Related articles Congratulations, Your … Continue reading The Fab Academy is a six-month long digital fabrication program
12 Inspiring Quotes from Steve Jobs That Enrich your Day Zoe B, lifehack.org Steve Jobs was not just a visionary genius, but a man with an incredible passion for innovation, and a man who changed the world as we knew it. His lust for life was so huge that he used to look at his … Continue reading Quotes from Steve Jobs
Parag Khanna: ‘So long, information age. Hello, hybrid age’ By Parag Khanna, wired.co.uk Magazine This article was taken from the October 2012 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired’s articles in print before they’re posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by subscribing… http://flpbd.it/LPJvj Related articles Make room … Continue reading Goodbye to the information age, hello to the hybrid
FYI: Why Does Salt Water Make Hurricane Damage So Much Worse? By Colin Lecher, popsci.com The white stuff can stick around and ruin, well, pretty much everything. That puts the officials trying to fix it on a ticking clock. Sandy crippled the NYC subway system this week, knocking out power, damaging switches, and dumping… http://flpbd.it/udDia … Continue reading Why you should not build expensive cities near salt water
Bensonwood Launches Unity Homes Line of Energy-Efficient Prefabs Bridgette Meinhold, inhabitat.com Bensonwood’s Unity Homes features four distinct home styles that are 2 to 4 bedrooms and range in size from 1,113 to 2,452 sq ft. The home styles are called the Tradd (a classic Tall Cape), Xyla (American Bungalow), Värm (Swedish… http://flpbd.it/xGx3f Related articles Sunmodo … Continue reading Bensonwood Launches Unity Homes Line of Energy-Efficient Prefabs
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