Fascinating article about scientists seeking the secrets of adhesives that will work with bones and tissue. Nature always seems to have the answers to all healing needs of humans.
via NYT
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What a great idea. I look forward to the day this becomes the standard.
With Boxed Water Is Better, the only thing you're really consuming is the water itself. A new brand—and concept—Boxed Water has successfully taken the bottled water phenomenon to eco-friendly heights.
(Via Cool Hunting.)
A sculpture to remind people to take the airport bus and save the emissions of 50 cars. Great idea and apparently it's created quite a buzz.
[from creativity-online] Acne Advertising created a sculpture from of 50 scrap cars to look like the airport shuttle service's coaches alongside the highway to a Swedish airport. Fifty cars represents how many fewer cars are on the road when one airport shuttle bus is full of passengers. The campaign website hosts a live feed from the installation and counts all the cars en route to the airport in the video. Counters exhibit the number of cars next to the equivalent number of buses that would be on the road if those car passengers had taken the shuttle service. via creativity-online
[from creativity-online] Acne Advertising created a sculpture from of 50 scrap cars to look like the airport shuttle service's coaches alongside the highway to a Swedish airport. Fifty cars represents how many fewer cars are on the road when one airport shuttle bus is full of passengers. The campaign website hosts a live feed from the installation and counts all the cars en route to the airport in the video. Counters exhibit the number of cars next to the equivalent number of buses that would be on the road if those car passengers had taken the shuttle service. via creativity-online
An electric car that was just announced by Chrysler. The specs seem to be more like a suped up golf cart than a real car but you can't help but smile at it... as it smiles back at you. 
via Peapod
via Peapod
I've always wondered why waves weren't used to good use. This seems to give a lot of clean energy to a lot more areas. Nice.
One of the Holy Grails of green power is hydroelectricity, and we've certainly seen our fair share of research in that department. The newest guy on the scene is called Oyster, a collaborative effort between Queen's University in Belfast and Aquamarine Power Limited that sees something called an Oscillating Wave Surge Converter placed offshore (in depths around 10-12 meters). When moved by waves, the device's double acting pistons push seawater ashore via high pressure flow lines, where it is converted to power using tried and true hydroelectric generators. Since the hydroelectric plant is located onshore, it is accessible for maintenance 24-7. According to the company, peak power should be around 300-600 kw, depending on the unit's configuration and location. The first prototype is to be deployed off the coast of Orkney this summer, where we'll see if it can transform high tides and abnormal weather patterns into juice for your Xbox. One more pic for you after the break.
[Via Renewable Energy World]
Oyster Wave Energy Converter puts climate change to good use: "
One of the Holy Grails of green power is hydroelectricity, and we've certainly seen our fair share of research in that department. The newest guy on the scene is called Oyster, a collaborative effort between Queen's University in Belfast and Aquamarine Power Limited that sees something called an Oscillating Wave Surge Converter placed offshore (in depths around 10-12 meters). When moved by waves, the device's double acting pistons push seawater ashore via high pressure flow lines, where it is converted to power using tried and true hydroelectric generators. Since the hydroelectric plant is located onshore, it is accessible for maintenance 24-7. According to the company, peak power should be around 300-600 kw, depending on the unit's configuration and location. The first prototype is to be deployed off the coast of Orkney this summer, where we'll see if it can transform high tides and abnormal weather patterns into juice for your Xbox. One more pic for you after the break.
[Via Renewable Energy World]
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[written by Shape+Color] I love it when my expectations (and my notions of what belongs where) are shattered. And when it’s done by a beautifully-honed image, then that’s even more kick ass. It’s the sort of unassuming subtlety of these shots by Basque photographer Mikel Uribetxeberria that gets me. The locations are sort of banal and sterile, while the animals don’t appear unnerved; they’re almost pensively bored more than anything else. It’s the apparent, unapologetic normalcy of such an incrediblly abnormal situation that makes these shots so interesting.
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(Via shape + colour.)
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Here's a brand new product with an idea that's thousands of years old. A perfect product for a eco friendly, minimalist and utilitarian brand (non brand) - Muji. Made from wheat straws and nothing else. What a great idea.
[from influxinsights.com]:could muji be the global brand of the moment?: "Perhaps there's never been a better time for Muji.
The Japanese brand has been around for decades and has slowly come out of its shell to expand into international territories, but it's global footprint is pretty tiny. With the world looking for more sustainable and affordable products, Muji seems well placed to be a leader in this space and it's something that the brand truly owns as it comes from its original DNA.
There's no other retailer of its scale that comes close to Muji's philosophy and ideology.
One great example of this in action is the recent prize it held for new products. Asking for solicitations and ideas from the outside world.
The winner was a straw straw that was developed by a Japanese designer. The concept so perfectly fits the brand and its ethos, no wonder it won. No flash, no frills- just a clever idea that reminds us and re-introduces us to the original straw, complete with its inbuilt recyclability.
The straw straw is so timely and so Muji.
Posted by Ed Cotton"
(Via http://www.influxinsights.com/influx.xml.)
When I was a child, it was a dream to live in a house that rotated. Perhaps, it can still become true?
Rotating Architecture: 16 Sweet Spinning Structures: "
Architects have always aimed towards building bigger, wider and higher (and, recently, more sustainable as well). Now technology has made a fourth design dimension possible: movement. These 15 amazing structures shift their shapes, put a new spin on style!
(image via: Everingham Rotating House)
(Via WebUrbanist.)
Beautiful and contemplative shots. More portraits and landscapes by clicking the image below.
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Science meets art in this compelling project where artist Daniel A. Becker creates gene code as graphic sequences.
Click on the link here to see letters turn into beautiful organic tapestries, as seen below.
First, you see the corresponding DNA linked to the graphics...
Then the letters turn into graphics that then creates this mosaic. In this case, this pattern was created by the DNA of the White Shark
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I really can't wait for the opening of the High Line Project, currently under construction in Chelsea. So futuristic, yet so warm, it's a one of a kind urban renewal project that is sure to be copied many times over in cities around the world (not to mention, a replica in Las Vegas?). Click on the photos below for a link to the official site and for a full slide show with much larger images.
designed by Field Operations (landscape architects) and Diller Scofidio + Renfro (architects) slide show by Friends of the High Line
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Check out more pictures and the "making of" this amazing landscape art created by Jim Denevan on the links below.
The Largest Human-Made Art on Earth: "
(Via Dark Roasted Blend.)
"Deep Lake Water Cooling System: "
Surely this can be applied here in Chicago, right?
Enwave and the City of Toronto have created an innovative cooling system that brings an alternative to conventional air conditioning to cool Toronto's downtown core — one that is clean, price competitive and energy efficient. A permanent layer of icy-cold (4°C) water 83 meters below the surface of Lake Ontario provides naturally cold water. This water is the renewable source of energy that Enwave's leading-edge technology uses to cool office towers, sports & entertainment complexes and proposed waterfront developments.The system has been in operation since 2004.
A similar form of air condition is being used in Halifax, Nova Scotia. At Purdy's Wharf, we read here, it ‘provides all the cooling for the building for 10 1/2 of the year. During the remaining six weeks, the buildings use conventional chillers, but the seawater is used to cool the condensers. The system was paid off in two years, and saves the complex more than $100,000 annually in electricity and maintenance costs.’
In the U.S., Cornell University is implementing its own deep lake water cooling system.
Wikipedia has an entry, of course.
(Via Pruned.)
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