Bob Parks has an overview of Stephen’s homemade fuel cell home @ Stuart Island – Stephen Friend has the first hand-built fuel cell-powered house in the US. No, not another hopeful boil-your-own-yogurt demo for an impractical technology, but a real, sustainable achievement that makes its own hydrogen in a cedar shed out back. And it […]
Crunchgear has a really interesting write up of Emotiv’s sensory gaming rig you wear on your head – The prototype device looks sort of like a smaller version of Professor X’s Cerebro mutant locator thing. It’s a headset with three separate arms than clasp around your head. Each arm contains myriad sensors that detect signals […]
There isn’t a how-to (yet) – but this seems like an interesting new particle board material… Home-buyers of tomorrow could find themselves walking across floors made from manure. That’s no cow pie-in-the-sky dream, according to researchers at Michigan State University and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. They say fiber from processed and sterilized cow manure […]
The New York Times has an article about Stewart Brand (Whole Earth Catalog, WELL) – he uses hackers/hacks in a way I’ve always thought was inspiring- Stewart Brand has become a heretic to environmentalism, a movement he helped found, but he doesn’t plan to be isolated for long. He expects that environmentalists will soon share […]
CBC has a story about slot machines getting pulled (no pun intended) over subliminal messaging – seems like it would be a fun experiment to try, winning and losing symbols… Ontario’s provincial gambling operator has pulled 87 video slot machines out of service or physically removed them from its casinos after a CBC investigation found […]
Interesting, a company (seems to be) using an iPod as a black box for airplanes…. With all these cars with iPod docks, it would be neat to have data logging on everything. Discuss in the comments! Apple Computer’s popular iPod music player could become a flight data recorder (FDR) following an announcement by US light […]
Australia is proposing the ban of incandescent bulbs, next time you need to replace a bulb, consider compact fluorescent – The environment minister said the move could cut the country’s greenhouse gas emissions by 4 million tonnes by 2012. “It’s a little thing but it’s a massive change,” Malcolm Turnbull said. The decision will make […]
