Posted on 07 July 2010 by admin
South Korean designers Je Sung Park and Woo Jung Kwon have finished an extraordinary umbrella -”Air Umbrella.”
This umbrella has no canopy, instead, a slim pipe blows enough air to keep the rain away. The user can control the length of its stem and the scale of air cover at will.This cool, creative design brakes the traditional thought on the shape of umbrellas. It is also eco-friendly as it reduces the use of plastics.[1]
Posted on 17 June 2010 by admin
This wonderful suspension bridge made of grass located in Peru. Its length is 36.6 meters and it is made of special herbs Qoya.
Posted on 03 June 2010 by admin
It is dubbed the Voglreiter Auto Residence and it has been designed by German architect Markus Voglreiter. Simply amazing, this auto residence is located in Gnigl near Salzburg, Austria and the surrounding areas make it look even more beautiful. Transforming the structure of the house into a car was a big challenge as it was originally a 70’s style house and then the architect also had to come up with two separate dwellings to incorporate two generations of a family.[1]
Posted on 23 May 2010 by admin
Polar bears and penguins committing suicide is the focus of a series of provocative art installations by Taiwanese artist Vincent J.F Huang. Dubbed the Suicide Penguins, Huang’s art explores the negative effects global climate change is having on the animals of the world, in particular the creatures living at the North and South Poles.
The Suicide Penguins art installation, located under Millennium Bridge in London, England features two glass penguins and a stuffed polar bear hanging from nooses.
Posted on 21 April 2010 by admin
It’s a fusion of street art and ceramic. All pieces are hand-made, in a traditional process. I call it “urban jewellery”.
Posted on 08 March 2010 by admin
A team of scientists at MIT has discovered a previously unknown phenomenon that can cause powerful waves of energy to shoot through minuscule wires known as carbon nanotubes, a discovery that could lead to a new way of producing electricity.
The phenomenon, described as thermopower waves, “opens up a new area of energy research, which is rare,” said Michael Strano, MIT’s Charles and Hilda Roddey Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, who was the senior author of a paper describing the new findings.
Like a collection of flotsam propelled along the surface by waves traveling across the ocean, it turns out that a thermal wave — a moving pulse of heat — traveling along a microscopic wire can drive electrons along, creating an electrical current. The key ingredient in the recipe is carbon nanotubes — submicroscopic hollow tubes made of a chicken-wire-like lattice of carbon atoms.
In the new experiments, each of these electrically and thermally conductive nanotubes was coated with a layer of a highly reactive fuel that can produce heat by decomposing.
This fuel was then ignited at one end of the nanotube using either a laser beam or a high-voltage spark, and the result was a fast-moving thermal wave travelling along the length of the carbon nanotube like a flame speeding along the length of a lit fuse.
According to Strano, in the group’s initial experiments, when they wired up the carbon nanotubes with their fuel coating in order to study the reaction, “lo and behold, we were really surprised by the size of the resulting voltage peak” that propagated along the wire.
Posted on 07 February 2010 by admin
The green brigade has precisely touched most of the industries; Automobile can be left as the fuel consumption is the highest in this sector. Efforts have been made in the past to promote electric cars but the end result has not been impressive to many. Electronic cars launched previously had few draw backs like their top speed not exceeding 20 miles per hour, long recharge hours, expensive and two seating capacity. Though they make no noise and are pollution free vehicles it didn’t made any difference.
A lot of time and money has been put in developing these electric cars and make them more lucrative to the buyer.
UK is coming up with a Electric car which will be a four seater, can run up to 70 miles without bothering to be recharged. It’s a Citroen C1 based car, which is joint venture by Peugeot, Toyota and Citroen. It shall take only six to seven hours to charge and can be charged in a 13a normal socket. Subsidies are also being discussed with British government to encourage people to go in for a Citroen C1. By 2011 Citroen C1will hit the market.
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Posted on 06 February 2010 by admin
About a hundred years ago greenhouse effect and global warming is conveyed planet to such a state that Niagara Falls froze and could not resist the ice.
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