Designer Joost van Bleiswijk makes everything flat. He designs components on a computer and then essentially laser cuts them out and folds them together into full-sized candelabras, clocks, and even this insane fireplace thing. Everything is made of stainless steel. It kind of reminds me of Ponoko but clearly this guy has taken it to a […]
Designer Joost van Bleiswijk makes everything flat. He designs components on a computer and then essentially laser cuts them out and folds them together into full-sized candelabras, clocks, and even this insane fireplace thing. Everything is made of stainless steel.
It kind of reminds me of Ponoko but clearly this guy has taken it to a whole other level. There’s an altar in that fireplace thing, for Prometheus’ sake.
[via Treehugger]
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Nobody knows exactly when, how many will be available, their price, charge time, range, or pretty much anything about the electric cars BMW is planning on selling. But we do know that they plan on selling them, probably in about a year. Not really big news unless you were one of those people planning on […]
Nobody knows exactly when, how many will be available, their price, charge time, range, or pretty much anything about the electric cars BMW is planning on selling. But we do know that they plan on selling them, probably in about a year. Not really big news unless you were one of those people planning on investing in an electric vehicle sometime in the middle of 2009. Oh wait, that’s me!
Let’s hope (for my sake) that they’re inexpensive. They might beat the rest of the auto makers, who are by and big planning to make their huge electric push in 2010. [via Gas 2.0]
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What do former vice president and environmental activist Al Gore and Texas oil man T. Boone Pickens have in common? Both believe the U.S. should cut back on its dependence on foreign oil and that the government needs to cease pussyfooting around on issues of greener energy, particularly wind power. Forbes website, recentlyreported that GE […]
What do former vice president and environmental activist Al Gore and Texas oil man T. Boone Pickens have in common? Both believe the U.S. should cut back on its dependence on foreign oil and that the government needs to cease pussyfooting around on issues of greener energy, particularly wind power.
Forbes website, recentlyreported that GE Energy is the leading wind turbine manufacturer in North America and that it is sold clean out of turbines until 2010, thanks in part to Pickens current order of 667 turbines for his huge wind farm in the Texas panhandle. Pickens, with his privately funded project, has publicly called for the U.S. to generate 20% of its electricity from wind power within 10 years. While Gore set a more audacious goal that the country should eliminate its use of carbon-based fuel within the same timeline. According to Forbes, wind currently accounts for less than 1% of the U.S. electric power.
Still GE states its possible to meet Pickens goal and points to places like the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, where scientists have improved blade design, increased efficiency in the transfer of energy into electricity and improved gearboxes that attach the turbines to the shaft.
Still experts in the green energy field state no matter how good the technology is, without a “national push” nothing major can change.
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Filed under: Digital Cameras, Displays
We got a gander at Samsung’s fancy new tellervisions and other stuff, and while the basic design language hasn’t changed a whole ton in current years, there’s always something new going on. We’re particularly enthusiastic about the new Series 8 LCDs, which manage a standard complement of ports in 2-inch thick form factors — none of that ports-in-the-base nonsense. The cute tiny InfoLink RSS widgets (pictured) are also quite the welcome addition to Samsung’s lineup, since these days we really can’t be bothered to lift our phone up to eye level and check the weather on there. We bet you think we’re kidding. Samsung is always droning on about the “Touch of Color” design, which is present in all its new TVs, along with its new computer monitor / TV hybrid displays. The flavor of the month is a new honeycomb pattern worked in with the color, but we really couldn’t care less — we’d rather watch TV. Elsewhere in the event we got to handle Samsung’s new cameras and camcorders. The new TL34HD is a particular stunner, though we do like the older black / blue color scheme. Nothing could have prepared us, however, for the SC-MX20. While in press pics it appears to be just another cheap-ass YouTube camcorder (which it is), in person the build quality and astounding color choices really blew us away — and trust us, no one is more surprised than we are by this fact. Most everything on display will be available next month.
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