The external airbags from ZF reduce the severity of impacts for both cars involved in an accident. Currently only available for the side of a car, the ZF airbag relies on the same technology used in traditional airbags, but on a much larger scale—up to three times larger and inflated with multiple inflators. The system features an array of sensors […]
External Airbags For Cars
4 Innovative Business Ideas
A innovative business idea has numerous chances of expanding in a rapid manner, as the consumer market will always be keen on trying new products and services. An innovative business can fill in a gap between two types of activities or it can start from scratch, by bringing a product on a given market that was not available before. Enter […]
Working At Home From The Beds
Geoffrey Pascal has created a collection of office furniture that responds to the growing number of people working at home in their beds. The three pieces in Pascal‘s Grafeiphobia: Unexpected Office collection are each based on the frame of a basic, slatted wooden bed. Different adaptations and foam upholstery allow the user to work in positions that emulate being in bed but […]
Spotify Wrapped
Each year, streaming giant Spotify makes it possible for its loyal Premium subscribers to investigate their past 365 days of listening, providing them with cool insights into their favorite tunes, podcasts, and genres. This year’s Spotify Wrapped site is a bit hard to find (you can log in and check out your picks at this link), but it is well […]
Easy Assembled Bamboo Homes
Could bamboo help solve Manila’s housing crisis? Earl Patrick Forlales believes it can. The 23-year-old Filipino architect recently won an international competition with his design for an affordable, eco-friendly housing project built on bamboo. CUBO, as Forlales calls the concept, was the winning entry to the Cities for the Future Challenge. The contest seeks innovative solutions to rapid urbanization, climate […]
Sustainable Christmas For Everyone
The United States docks in at the No. 1 spot for most wasteful countries in the world. Perhaps the US tradition of consumerism has something to do with this, especially during the holidays. After all, the US produces 236 million tons of waste per year, 25 million tons of which solely accumulates between Thanksgiving and New Year’s. The good news […]
Making Old Buildings Sustainable
Constructing new sustainable projects is all well and good, but there are still many drafty old buildings in use throughout the United States. With this in mind, Snøhetta has teamed up with Harvard’s Green Buildings and Cities (CGBC) to create HouseZero. The project involved renovating a pre-1940s building into a new energy-positive office and aims to offer ideas for making […]
Bicycle Lock Doubles As Seat
While bicycle U-locks may provide better security than their cable counterparts, the things can be a hassle to carry around in a backpack. The EverLock was created in response to this problem, as it’s actually built into the bike’s seatpost. Developed by UC Berkeley students Andrew Shacker, Dennis Tan and Erica Gao, the EverLock consists of a main crossbar (which […]
Temperature Sensitive Rewritable Paper
Despite predictions that writing paper may soon “go extinct,” people are still using an awful lot of the stuff, often for notes that don’t need to be kept very long. That’s why a number of groups have developed so-called rewritable paper, with an interesting example of the technology recently being created by scientists in China. Led by Luzhuo Chen from […]
Bionic Mushroom
Researchers at the Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey have come up with an unexpected way to produce electricity without using fossil fuels: A mushroom covered with bacteria. The “bionic mushroom” was announced in the journal Nano Letters and has captured the imagination of the public due to its wacky creativity. Bacteria have been of interest to energy researchers […]