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.  

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

The New York team proposed that a net-zero park be created within a three-block-long stretch of central median running down Allen Street on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. One of the biggest challenges faced by people who are associated with building cities is being able to create open space when there seems to be none left. [...]

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)  

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

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)    

It’s important to move victims as little as possible after they have had an accident. A secondary injury could be worse than the first. Danny Lin, a student at Art Center College of Design, in California, has a new take on the classic stretcher. His Lenify design breaks into three pieces, allowing first responders to slide head, body [...]

Help Wanted: Needed, one exceptionally skilled knife catcher! Those with poor skills will be considered as long as they’re exceptionally fast healers! Quote of the Day:  ”Build a man a fire, and he’ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.” – Terry Pratchett

They get shorter and floppier when they’re less excited! Quote of the Day: “First you forget names, then you forget faces, then you forget to pull your zipper up, then you forget to pull your zipper down.” – Leo Rosenberg

“We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can’t cope with is therefore your own problem.” Quote of the Day: “Personally, I don’t think there’s intelligent life on other planets. Why should other planets be any different from this one?” – Bob Monkhouse