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Genius just took a big step forward for computer peripherals by launching the world’s first wireless battery-free mouse. The mighty mouse eschews wasteful AAAs and heavier lithium-ion batteries in favor of an electric double-layer ultracapacitor that requires just a quick 3 minute charge each day. The Genius DX-Eco runs on a 2.4 Ghz connection, is rated to last for 100,000... weiterlesen...
This simple little video offers up a memorable analogy for the difference between climate and weather.
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This do-it-yourself ribbon brooch will only take 20 minutes to make! Handmade goodness fills any gift recipient up with joy, and with found materials you can create this gorgeous, unique flower brooch that goes with anything – dressy or casual. Click ahead to check out the best last minute gift idea around!
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General Motors just announced a partnership with Japanese company Teijin that they hope will lead to lighter weight and more efficient vehicles. Teijin is an advanced materials company that specializes in carbon fiber and recently released information about their proprietary process that allows carbon fiber sheets to be produced in under a minute. Traditionally, carbon fiber wa... weiterlesen...
Q: What if everyone on the planet held their breath for one minute every day? A: We'd stop climate change. According to Kristen Wiig. And Mitt Romney.
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In late October, Thomas Senkel of e-volo completed the world’s first manned flight of an electric multicopter on an airstrip in the southwest of Germany. The flight lasted one minute and 30 seconds. Of the flight, the constructor and test pilot said, “The flight characteristics are good-natured. Without any steering input it would just hover there on the spot.”... weiterlesen...
This sexy new electric motorcycle, called the Volta BCN, is set to hit the market in Q2 of next year in Spain and promises to be the perfect ride for the urban environmentalist. The electric motorcycle world is getting larger by the minute and bikes like the BRD Redshift and Orphiro are hitting the market this year, so Volta has a bit of competition to go up against. Teaser vide... weiterlesen...
Read the rest of DIY: How to Make a Last Minute Salvador Dali Lobster Telephone Costume in Just 30 Minutes!
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Human-powered helicopters have made headlines again and again over the last 12 months, and a team from the University of Maryland even broke the record for longest human-powered flight. However, a 19 year old teenager from UC Berkeley is now aiming to claim the American Helicopter Society Igor I. Sikorsky Human Powered Helicopter Prize by building a human-powered helicopter tha... weiterlesen...
Dog poop is a blight upon city streets and parks, however researchers recently unveiled a new breed of robot capable of picking up the offensive little landmines before they find someone’s shoe. Designed by the University of Pennsylvania’s GRASP Lab, the POOP SCOOP (Perception Of Offensive Products and Sensorized Control Of Object Pickup) robot is amazingly accurate R... weiterlesen...
Earlier this year at the Detroit Auto Show, we heard about Porsche’s hybrid race car that garners energy from a flywheel, and now a consortium called Flybus has put that energy reusing technology into a regular bus. This simple technology takes kinetic energy generated as the vehicle is breaking and winds up a flywheel that feeds energy back into the wheels when accelerati... weiterlesen...
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We've been eating tomatoes at pretty much every meal for the past two weeks, except last night when my husband cried "enough" and I made a Chinese stir fry with nary a tomato in sight. No doubt a lot of you are feeling the same way, but as I said to my Parentables editor who was bemoaning the glut of tomatoes from her garden, just think about January for a... weiterlesen...
While it may seem to go against the usual anti-renewable energy stance that the red party is known for, this past weekend, the Republican candidates for president took a minute out of their busy schedules to sign a wind turbine. As part of the Iowa Straw Poll, the wind power signing event (organized by the American Wind Energy Association), was meant to show support for wind e... weiterlesen...
by Aaron BrittI was in the process of researching a big prefab round-up story this week when I came across what might be the only prefab slapstick comedy in existence. A good three decade's before Jacque Tati's M. Hulot bumbled his way through the modern world, Buster Keaton played a luckless newlywed trying to build a kit home in One Week (1920). Build-it-by-the-numbers kit home... weiterlesen...
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From posting on the Tumbleweed Tiny House Company back in 2005 to announcing the birth of the first Tiny House Conference, TreeHugger has been following the growth of the tiny house movement with enthusiasm for years. But what does life inside one of these minute dwellings look like? Peak Moment TV sat down for a conversation with one tiny house dwe... weiterlesen...
This Saturday JetBlue is offering $4 flights between the Burbank and Long Beach airports in an effort to help residents avoid the inevitable Carmegedon that will occur with the closing of a 10-mile stretch of the city’s infamously slow 405 freeway. We thought it was a joke when we first saw mention of the promotion, but the joke’s on the environment because they have alread... weiterlesen...
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When you're trying to reconfigure how people think about urban car "ownership" - by which we mean stripping out the ownership part and replacing it with the idea of having access to a car whenever you need one - the powertra... weiterlesen...
by Diana BuddsIn Paris's 11th Arrondissement, the Bastille district, French design maven Matali Crasset has composed delightfully unique and über contemporary design hotel for weary travelers to lay their heads. Hi Matic is part Japanese ryokan, part hostel, part technophile's dream (virtually everything is automated from reservations to check-in to check-out), and wholly a ... weiterlesen...