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Beverley Mitchell writes: Google has made a major breakthrough in its self-driving car project. The tech giant has now started building its own prototype vehicles from scratch, rather than retro-fitting existing commercial models such as the Toyota Prius. This has enabled some interesting design modifications such as, well, no steering wheel — for a start!
Beverley Mitchell writes: Researchers at Stockholm's KTH Royal Institute of Technology have come up with an innovative addition to the city's public transit system. Called Waterway 365, their project follows the principle that “across is always closer than around.” They propose integrating water buses into the existing public transport service, and their bike-friendly system design involves a water bus unlike any other you have seen before.
Beverley Mitchell writes: Colorado company Osmosis Skincare claims to have invented a drinkable form of UV protection. They say ingesting 2 mls of Harmonized H2O UV Neutralizer an hour before sun exposure provides up to 3 hours of protection. In a YouTube video, company owner Dr. Ben Johnson claims: “I’ve been working for years on formulas where we are imprinting radio frequency waves on the molecules of water. And, you know, physics will tell you, ‘We’re not sure if you can do that or not.’ We have come up with a system that does that.” The ingested water is then said to vibrate up to your skin to deflect UVA and UVB waves. With skin cancer risks well documented, it appears that the Food and Drug Administration and the British Skin Foundation wish to err on the side of caution and do not endorse the product.
Taffykay writes: Tech giant Fujitsu has opened an organic lettuce farm in Japan's Fukushima prefecture. Blending agriculture, technology, and medicine in a former microchip factory, the company has developed a new variety of organic lettuce that is not only lower in potassium and nitrates than standard varieties, but is also radiation-free.
gogreenbaltimore writes: Baltimore city just launched the amazing Water Wheel, a solar-powered trash collector that can devour up to 50,000 pounds of trash a day! Topped by a sail fabric canopy, the Water Wheel operates entirely off grid, is powered by 30 solar panels and the water current, and looks really cool to boot. All collected trash is sent to a waste-to-energy plant. By cleaning up debris swept into the Inner Harbor by stormwater runoff, the Water Wheel could help make Baltimore's Inner Harbor swimmable by 2020.
Taffykay writes: The world's first urban algae canopy controls the flow of energy, water and CO2 based on weather patterns, visitor's movements, and other environmental variables. Once completed in time for the 2015 Milan Expo, this groundbreaking bio-digital project from ecoLogic Studio will produce the oxygen equivalent of four hectares of woodland, along with nearly 330 pounds of biomass per day.
Taffykay writes: Swiss innovators André Borschberg and Bertrand Piccard just announced the debut of the new and improved Solar Impulse 2 aircraft. In roughly one year, this new and improved solar airplane will attempt what no plane has done before: a journey of five consecutive days and nights from one continent to the next without using a drop of fuel.
Elliot Chang writes: Who knew urine could be so useful? Edinburgh College of Art student Peter Trimble has built a machine that makes furniture out of sand, pee and bacteria. Called the Dupe, the device is being used to cast low stools that are surprising sturdy, and can be broken up and used as a fertilizer at the end of their lifecycles.
Taffykay writes: McDonald's has announced it will be the first fast food chain in the United States to add lab-grown meat to their menu. Following the success of Sergey Brin's lab-grown burger experiment last year, the group said they will 'grow' chicken McNuggets in labs across New Jersey. The move is expected to reduce the number of real chickens needed to supply their 35,000 branches across the globe.
An anonymous reader writes: China’s copycat architecture trend has been well documented – so far the nation has built full-scale replicas of the Eiffel Tower, the canals of Venice, and even an entire Austrian village. However when Chinese developer AuthentiCity Ltd. sought to recreate the historic hamlet of Colonial Williamsburg, it wound up with something else entirely – an exact replica of Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
formaggio writes: Rawlemon just unveiled a giant glass ball called the Betaray that it claims can concentrate sunlight (and moonlight) up to 10,000 times — making it 35 percent more efficient than traditional dual-axis photovoltaic designs. The sphere can be fully integrated into the walls or ceilings of a building and it suffers no weather impact. And, because it's basically just a big crystal ball, it guarantees at least 99 percent transparency.
Taffykay writes: NASA's Curiosity Rover has discovered water on Mars, prompting scientists to question whether the red planet has ever supported life. The rover scooped up surface soil and then analyzed its contents using the custom built Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM), an on-board analytical suite that processes and tests its findings with a gas chromotograph, mass spectrometer and tunable laser. In addition to water, the soil sample contained carbon dioxide, oxygen and sulfur compounds.
