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When are we gonna be able to convert astronaut
feces into hydrogen for use in onboard fuel cells?
For the first time, the United Nations is planning to make its mark in space with an international satellite designed to promote science education and international cooperation in the sciences. But the $5 million satellite (UNESCOSat) won’t go up [...]
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This short video called The Story of Electronics is the latest in The Story of Stuff video series. As the title suggests, this particular video is about our collection of electronics which create a lot of e-waste every single year. That e-waste is harmful not just to the environment but also to us and other people around [...]
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Featured invention at the DaVinci Inventor Showcase
TreeGreetings . . . technology and the Earth working together to plant trees! A shade, fruit, flowering or evergreen tree gets planted in the US or Central America with every amazing, beautiful, musical, nature eCard sent. No paper used in the entire process and it’s easy as 1, 2, [...]
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Finally a great way to recycle your old plastic credit cards
Expired credit cards, library cards, and gift cards get a new life with the Pick Punch, a stapler-like gadget that creates unique guitar picks out of any flat piece of plastic. Customized maxed-out AMEX picks make jam sessions instantly cooler.
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Bad News About Printer Companies
According to ETBC, Dell, Samsung and Asus received the best marks, though Samsung got a scolding for a bad occupational health record at its Korean manufacturing plants where many of the young workers are diagnosed with blood cancers. Whether that’s a direct result of working at Samsung or from something [...]
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A great use for phone books
Architect Richard Kroeker designed a shed made out of phone books. It was built by architecture students at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia. Kroeker writes:
The books form a ready made, insulated building module held in place with sheet metal angles normally used as drywall bead material…
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Startling Recycling Numbers
Retrevo dot com is a great marketplace for gadgets, and it’s chock full of interesting news about electronics, including our habits regarding our electronics. In a recent study, the company found that on average only 39% of Americans claim to recycle all of their old electronic devices. And that number is somewhat sketchy [...]
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Will we have jellyfish power soon?
Thanks to more acidic oceans, jellyfish populations seem to be flourishing. While they aren’t exactly edible for humans, they might be useful for powering nanodevices. Swedish researcher have been turning thousands of Aequorea victoria, a common North American jellyfish species, into liquid and extracting a green fluorescent protein (GFP) that [...]
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Rolling and Recharging at the same time!
Students at the University of Karlsruhe in Germany designed and built an electric vehicle and the track that it runs on. The car can recharge using electrical conduits built into the surface of the track. It doesn’t have to stop in order to recharge…
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RFID chips will allow city workers to monitor how often residents roll carts to the curb for collection.
We’ve heard the promise: in the future, everything’s connected. But when Cleveland rolls out its new RFID-enabled recycling bins next year, ones that know if you’re using them and report you if you’re not, you might long to [...]
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A lone child in the valley of garbage
Manshiet Nasser is a neighborhood located in Cairo, Egypt. People refer to it as the City of Garbage because trash from all over Cairo end up there. It is not a landfill. Rather, people who live there survive on sorting through garbage and selling whatever is useful. They claim [...]
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Circuit Board Treasures
The complicated connections exhibited in circuit boards definitely give way to a medium that’s perfect for futuristic creations. But there is one man out there who is more interested in taking those boards back in time. With an artistic vision and a pair of skilled hands, artist Theo Kamecke is repurposing old circuit [...]
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Viola!
Laptops, unfortunately, go through a lot of wear and tear, to the point of unusability. Hacker Bart, however, shows us how just because a laptop’s hinge, monitor, or keyboard is broken doesn’t mean it can’t still be a working, desktop computer.
This project is still ongoing, but has most of the kinks worked out [...]
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Finding new uses for urine.
Urine could hold the secret to low cost energy, university boffins have revealed.
Researchers have developed a system to test whether it can be used in fuel cells as an alternative to flammable hydrogen or toxic methanol.
The work at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, concentrates on urea, or carbamide, a mass-manufactured fertiliser [...]
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Mecier’s Lady Ga Ga
Jason Mecier’s amazing 3D assemblage collages bring to life the celebrities of today, and of yesteryear — in recycled junk! Jason Mecier’s 3D mosaics don’t just illustrate celebrities in recycled junk — incredibly, many of them are actually made from items donated by the celebrities themselves.
