Raising boats out of the water on hydrofoils makes them much more comfortable and efficient – and this French design uses electric propulsion and an automatic self-stabilizing system to give you clean, quiet and sexy water transport. Making its US debut in Miami this week, the Seabubbles Bubble Taxi is a five-seat design about the size of a family car, […]
Bubble-Electric Taxi
Biodegradable Bottle Hailed Game Changer
When working to reduce your environmental impact, swapping out single-use plastic water bottlesfor a reusable bottle is one of the simplest and most cost-effective choices a person can make. But a new company called Cove is hoping to make the single-use water bottle game a little easier on the environment with its 100 percent biodegradable water bottle. As reported by […]
Trending Work Values
There a lot of factors to consider when you’re changing places of work — your new job, the salary, the benefits, the office culture. New research has found that there’s another — possibly surprising — factor to be considered by employers when they’re looking to secure and retain top talent: Their carbon footprint. Swytch, a blockchain-based clean energy platform, recently […]
Autonomous Bot Ready To Help Clear Snow
If there’s one thing that many North American cities need this winter, it’s help in snow removal. That’s likely why Colorado-based Left Hand Robotics is currently sold out of its SnowBot Pro, which autonomously brushes snow off of sidewalks while avoiding pedestrians. Users start by walking the path that they wish the SnowBot to travel, carrying a Path Collection Tool […]
Making Wood Fire-Resistant
It was just this Wednesday that we heard about a non-toxic flame-retardant solution created by scientists at Texas A and M University. Well, researchers at Switzerland’s Empa institute have also come up with one, which could be used to keep wood and wood-based building materials from burning. Developed in partnership with Swiss company Bruag Fire Protection, the colorless liquid is […]
Circular Garden
Living in a crowded inner city means that many residents don’t have a garden of their own, so are unable to grow their own fruit and veggies. We’ve seen a number of indoor growing innovations – including Windowfarms and the Grobo – but last year’s OGarden was a little different, growing plants in a rotating wheel with a light at […]
Building With Robots
Following an architecture competition, Turkey’s Melike Altinisik Architects (MAA) has been selected to create the new Robot Science Museum (RSM) in Seoul, South Korea. Interestingly, the firm says that the building will be part-constructed using 3D-printing machines, drones, and other robots. The RSM was conceived by the Seoul Metropolitan Government to increase public interest in, and promote the knowledge of, […]
Can Artificial Leaves Help Pluck Out Carbon Dioxide?
Plants are amazing little powerhouses, converting sunlight, water and carbon dioxide into energy. Over the last few years humans have tried to mimic this with artificial leaves, but they’re never quite up to scratch. Now, researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago have designed a new version that could work under real-world conditions, sucking carbon dioxide out of the […]
“Breathing House”
Vo Trong Nghia Architects has covered the roof and facade of Breathing House in Ho Chi Minh City with a canopy of climbing plants to create private outdoor spaces. Breathing House occupies a narrow and deep lot within a densely populated neighbourhood that is accessible only via a narrow alleyway. Due to the restricted site, the only surfaces that could […]
Top Ten Breakthrough Tech of 2019
Robot dexterity Robots are teaching themselves to handle the physical world. For all the talk about machines taking jobs, industrial robots are still clumsy and inflexible. A robot can repeatedly pick up a component on an assembly line with amazing precision and without ever getting bored—but move the object half an inch, or replace it with something slightly different, and […]