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Danielle Trofe's Hourglass LED Lamps Use the Kinetic Power of Sand to Produce Light

After the debut of her Live Screen hydroponic garden during NY Design Week 2012, Brooklyn-based designer Danielle Trofe is returning this year with a new series of off-the-grid LED...
Seeding a new kind of concrete

Sunflower seed husks, a huge waste product of the vegetable oil and food industry, could be used as an environmentally friendly filler, or aggregate, for concrete according to Turkish...
NDūR Survival Straw purifies water while you drink

Most of us take water for granted. If we want a drink, we turn a tap or twist a cap and there it is. But if you find yourself off the beaten track in triple-digit heat without it,...
Piezoelectric “Taxels” Convert Motion to Electronic Signals for Tactile Imaging

Using bundles of vertical zinc oxide nanowires, researchers have fabricated arrays of piezotronic transistors capable of converting mechanical motion directly into electronic...
The biomass facility shows cost savings: The Hotchkiss School

Centerbrook has designed a new Central Heating Facility for The Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut that heats the campus by burning woodchips. It replaced an oil-fired boiler,...

Danielle Trofe's Hourglass LED Lamps Use the Kinetic Power of Sand to Produce Light

Seeding a new kind of concrete

NDūR Survival Straw purifies water while you drink

Danielle Trofe's Hourglass LED Lamps Use the Kinetic Power of Sand to Produce Light

May 9, 2013

Seeding a new kind of concrete

May 7, 2013

NDūR Survival Straw purifies water while you drink

May 7, 2013

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NDūR Survival Straw purifies water while you drink
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Fan is such an appropriate name.

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Just, completely awesome! :) Great idea

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