FastCoExist: Today, much of the fuel that powers Brazil’s cars and trucks is grown as sugarcane. Now, the country is brewing a second source in tanks of algae. The world’s first industrial-scale biofuel plant, using waste from making their already popular biofuel (ethanol) to feed the production of another (algae), is scheduled to open in […]
The Desert Sun: Johann Steinlechner is the exact antithesis of what you’d expect a green-tech entrepreneur with a game-changing concept in wind power to look like. With his wide-brimmed cowboy hat, Western-style shirts and thick Austrian accent, the Palm Springs “wind cowboy†is the odd man out among the suits and tech-nerds at the wind
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In this edition of Inventor’s Journal, Rich Whittle teams up with MIT Libraries to learn what a patent is and why patents can be important to your research. If you’re interested in viewing the rest of the video tutorials, use the links below. These videos were produced by MIT Libraries and we use them under
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Our next interview in the Get on the Shelf series features Mike Sewell and his product, the StepNpull. What product did you submit to Wal-Mart’s Get on the Shelf contest? We submitted StepNpull which is a hands free door opener designed for commercial latch less doors. It gives the user the option of pulling the
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Kuwait News Agency: A Kuwaiti researcher has invented a system to control presence and absence of students in schools and universities and has registered his new invention with the Intellectual Property Office in Britain. Named (system and method for monitoring and motivating students to attend), Associated Professor of education and director of research and development
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Business Weekly: Cambridge UK technology design house, Sagentia, has backed the invention by student entrepreneurs of a new pop-up umbrella that can fold flat to easily fit a laptop bag. Sagentia challenged second year product design engineering undergraduates at Loughborough University to re-design either the Anglepoise lamp or the umbrella. The winning team came up
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SBWire: Carttiara; a simple yet highly innovative product, is on a distinct road to become the next best sensation in couponing communities all over the U.S. With an unusual name, a simple “needâ€, and a great idea, Carttiara was invented by a wife, who happens to dabble in shopping marathons on frequent basis. Since a
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TechCrunch: Researchers at the University Of Georgia have created a robotic dragonfly that can hover, dive, and climb like a real insect. With the help of a $1,000,000 grant from the Air Force, the team has built multiple prototypes of the consumer device and is now working on an Indiegogo project to sell the basic
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MakerFairAfrica: 1 Liter of urine gives you 6 hours of electricity. The system works like this: Urine is put into an electrolytic cell, which separates out the hydrogen. The hydrogen goes into a water filter for purification, which then gets pushed into the gas cylinder. The gas cylinder pushes hydrogen into a cylinder of liquid
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Does your garbage can tell you the weather, or whether the stock market is up or down? Mine doesn’t, but for the 2012 London Olympics, the city’s financial center is getting at least 200 Renew trash receptacles that will. Each can is also bombproof and offers wifi connectivity. Oh, and they go for $1,800 each.
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