Algaebulb
Designer Gyula Bodonyi has harnessed the power of green algae in a light bulb. Algae projects have already been seen powering power entire buildings, but Bodonyi’s concept brings green power to the public on a more user-friendly scale. With the Algaebulb, algae powers a single LED activated by a tiny air pump and hydrophobic material able to create a teeny-tiny power house for light. (photos)
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Steven King’s wife. No, not that wife, the other one!
Quote of the Day: “I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.” – Steve Martin
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The Water Discus in Dubai is one of the latest projects in an underwater hotel. The hotel comprises two discs – an underwater and above-water one. This combination will allow guests to admire the depths of the ocean while making the most of the warm climate. (Video and photos)
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Hmmm, now which car did I drive to work?
Quote of the Day: “I never said most of the things I said.” – Yogi Berra
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Jiadang (Family Stuff)
Jiadang (Family Stuff) is a project by Chinese photographer Huang Qingjun that shows Chinese families posing next to all of their worldly possessions. He spent almost ten years traveling around to various rural communities in China, asking families to take everything they owned and carefully arrange them outdoors for a picture. (Photos)
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It was the final match between good and evil, and unless he pulls a groin muscle,
evil is about to kick the sideburns off his opponent!
Quote of the Day: “It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.” – Douglas Adams
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Flexible solar cells.
The Victorian Organic Solar Cell Consortium (VICOSC), CSIRO, and the University of Melbourne has developed a new printer that has allowed researchers at the university to print solar cells up to the size of an A3 sheet of paper. The solar cell printer makes renewable energy even easier to source.
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Something tells me this is not a gesture of kindness!
Quote of the Day: “Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.” – Frank Lloyd Wright
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Solar Impulse
The goal of Solar Impulse is to fly around the world using no fuel other than sunlight. But before the solar plane circumnavigates the globe they will fly across the U.S. Solar Impulse took off on May 3 proving that airplanes can fly long distances on nothing more than sunshine. (Photos)
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What if shadows were inverted?
Quote of the Day: “Some people say that I must be a terrible person, but it’s not true. I have the heart of a young boy in a jar on my desk” – Stephen King
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Abod
One billion people of the world’s population lives in informal communities – sometimes known as shantytowns, tent cities or, if you’re really going for the jugular, slums. Doug Sharp, president and chairman of BSB Design, came up with a tiny, inexpensive home for slum dwellers that can be built in less than one day by one family. (Pics)
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Admiral Lord Nelson
How would famous faces from history look if they were alive today? Historical figures like William Shakespeare, Henry VIII and Horatio Nelson have been given a modern makeover to see how they would look today. (Pics)
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