There’s a touching story of Majora Carter who grew up in the ghetto of South Bronx, NY and wanted to make a change for the better in her neighborhood. I’ll let you hear it straight from her on this video. One of her endeavors is the Sustainable South Bronx Green Roof Project, to transform the [...]
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Need a break from visting the gas stations to fill those huge gas hogs? Hop on one of these wheelie thingy from Wheelsurf. It’s a wheel within a wheel contraption that requires good balance in all directions in order to get a steady ride. It’s powerplant is from a Honda GX31 4 stroke 31 cc engine. [...]
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The new fuel cell electric driven car will be hitting the west coast next month. Honda will be allocating about 150 copies for the residents west coast due to the lack hydrogen refueling stations nationwide. For those who are interested, only a three year lease is available for $600/month which will include maintenance.
The car is [...]
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From the tinkers of MIT Media Labs comes a green solution for crowded city travel. The idea is to have these folding electric scooters placed at busy transits that can be rented. These would be great for short errand runs, commuting, and just to get from point AtoB. Great idea … here’s a video.
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Frontline Aerospace have invented a 50 pound device that could extend the range of any helicopter. It’s a “counter-flow heat exchanger that extracts heat from the hot engine exhaust and transfers it to the compressed engine air before combustion.” Nice to see the aerospace looking into aircraft efficiency.
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I saw this infomercial late one night of a new twist to the old tiny scooter of decades past. It has larger wheels for better stability and prevent that stumble from the unexpected crack in the road with those tiny roller blade wheels used prior. It’s smaller and lighter than a bicycle, you’ll just have to kick [...]
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Got all those toys but no fresh batteries, try eMotion’s Solar Media player. With time to kill on a road trip or just waiting around, pull this out for entertainment. After you’re done just place it in the sun to recharge it’s battery. The nice added feature is that you can plug-in any usb device [...]
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Instead of using toxic chemicals in current batteries today, Sony is on the way to replace the harmful substances with sugar. Sugar is renewable and readily available world wide. Now if that ever reaches the market, will the price of sugar sky rocket? Will there be a shortage on the food side? Just like [...]
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Out with the old and in with the new. Forget your traditional hundred year old colonial homes and smog cars of yesteryear , break the mode and create master pieces. Mitchell Joachim and his design team have come up with some of the most beautiful and fascinating concepts for tomorrows lifestyle. From home integrated with living [...]
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Can one person really make a difference in the world? In this case it’s a husband and wife team of Martha & Michael Port that definitely can inspire the world to ease the daily task of cooking. The Ports were inspired by statistics from the U.N. about billions of people around the world who couldn’t [...]
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