Web developer Chris Gray came up with his idea for a global Underground map when he was visiting Australia.
What if you could board a train in Madras, India and travel to Boston without changing trains? One man has imagined the world as a giant London Underground map where people can travel freely between countries and traverse vast bodies of water from the comfort of their seat while vehicles speed through vast tunnels.
Vu1’s conceptual design for its R-30 bulb.
While compact fluorescent lights (CFLs) are currently the primary alternative to incandescent light bulbs, a company from Seattle predicts that its own novel light bulbs will eventually replace CFLs and LEDs. Vu1 (“view one”) Corporation has been working on its electron stimulated luminescence (ESL) bulbs, and has recently released a demo video (below).
Continue reading… “Future of Light Bulbs May Be ESL’s”
Have you ever wondered how cyborgs brains would work, well research scientists are taking us one step closer to figuring that out. Research done by scientists in Italy and Switzerland has shown that carbon nanotubes may be the ideal “smart” brain material.
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Now that we’re moving on from traditional lightbulbs to more eco-friendly designs, designers have much more freedom with what they do with light. Design house Hulger is tackling light bulbs as their next big object, using the twisting tubes as pieces of functional art that you won’t want to hide behind a shade.
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With geeks all over the world testing the supremacy of technology and pushing its frontiers, simple yet useful devices are going through a major facelift. An innovation of today becomes an object of daily use in a matter of few years. This time, it’s the turn of lighting devices. General Electric Co. has come up with a machine that can prints sheets of light. The flexible sheets are coated with a layer of OLEDs and other chemicals which run 8-inch wide with a final layer of metal foil to guard the mixture. It emits a blue-white glow on having passed electric current through it.
Continue reading… “OLED Sheets Replace Conventional Lighting”
A startup is selling cylindrical solar cells that can generate more power than conventional panels.
Continue reading… “Cylindrical Solar Cells For Big Buildings”
