Category: INNOVATION
$3 Device to Save Millions of Lives
(Phys.org) —Researchers at India’s Institute of Technology Madras have developed a new kind of portable water purification system based on nanoparticle filtration. In their paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the team explains how their new device does its job—it employs nanoparticles to remove not just biological hazards, but toxic heavy [...]
Inventing Inspiration
Posted: Tuesday, March 12, 2013 12:00 am | Updated: 1:31 am, Tue Mar 12, 2013. By MAUREEN DOLAN/Staff writer COEUR d’ALENE – A 10-year-old Coeur d’Alene boy’s desire to make life easier for others like himself, people who are living with type 1 diabetes, has turned him into something else – a multiple award-winning inventor. [...]
Building a Cellphone That Doesn’t Kill People
fastcoexist.com ORIGINAL STORY — FASTCoEXIST The FairPhone is made with fairly mined minerals, built under good labor conditions, and is entirely recyclable–all things your current phone probably isn’t. Bas van Abel leads an innovative electronics company. But, unlike Apple or Samsung, he’s not particularly interested in the latest voice activation or finger-swiping technology. No. He’s [...]
Smart Phones and Future of Medicine — wow!
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“UPCYCLED” PLAYGROUND
Did you know the Netherlands has an annual playground designing contest? A Dutch design firm called BOARD took the floor plan from a typical apartment in the neighborhood, enlarged it five times, and used it as the layout for the new upcycled playground. From BOARD: We took the wish of the competition’s organizers, the Richard [...]
Check out The Science Barge!
The Science Barge is a prototype sustainable urban farm developed by NY Sun Works and acquired by Groundwork Hudson Valley in October, 2008 to be operated as an environmental education center. The Science Barge greenhouse, floating on the Hudson River, grows an abundance of fresh produce including tomatoes, melons, greens, and lettuce with zero net [...]
Detroit’s Good Food Cure
What happens when the Motor City transforms itself into the capital of grow-your-own food? by Larry Gabriel at Yes! Magazine Weekend mornings are the busiest days of the week at D-Town Farm. That’s when up to 30 volunteers from across Detroit come out to till the earth and tend the crops at the [...]
Visually-Impaired Teen Creates Braille Menus
Original story by Cheramie Sonnier, Advocate Food editor Imagine not being able to do something as simple as read a restaurant’s menu. Fifteen-year-old blind student Sophie Trist said that’s a hurdle she faces time and again. “Most restaurants do not have Braille menus. This can be a major problem for visually impaired individuals,” [...]
Wildlife Bridges!
How wonderful is this?! As discussed in fastcodesign.com’s article “Can a Wildlife Bridge Fix America’s $8 Billion Roadkill Problem?” the safety of wildlife is an ever-present danger — and tragedy — on our highways. Wildlife overpasses, green bridges, and ecoducts all refer to structures that have been built over roads to allow wildlife to [...]
Energy Playground!
From Global Inheritance: http://www.globalinheritance.org/energy-playground Your Effort, Your Energy! Quick Facts The energy swings allow riders to glide over 20’ and to a height of 9’ to output 12 Volt electricity to the Energy Well or other devices. Energy Playground riders have produced over 10,000 zero impact grid neutral snowcones in only one year! The Energy [...]
