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Air-Purifying Cement to Grace Facade of Palazzo Italia
Air-purifying cement will comprise most of the exterior facade of the Palazzo Italia in Milan, Italy. The unique pavilion will be made from a special air-purifying cement created by Italcementi and...
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Urban Wind Turbine Provides Quiet Power
The newly introduced Liam F1 Urban Wind Turbine developed by The Archimedes will allow those in cities to quietly make their own power as easily as their country cousins. Besides it’s almost silent...
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Breathing Wall 2.0 Responds to Hand Gestures
DeZeen featured this story about a fabric wall that responds to hand gestures, similar to those used on a mobile phone or tablet, and shows the potential for technology to control the shape of our...
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Solar Power Gardens Allow Those Without Roof Access to Go Solar
A new arrangement for getting solar power, called a solar power garden, is popping up in a few states, such as Massachusetts and Colorado, and it involves customers buying in to a solar array at...
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First 3D Printed House
An architecture firm that was founded in 2004 in Amsterdam by Hans Vermeulen, Hedwig Heinsman and Martine de Wit called DUS Architects is in the middle of a 3-year research project that may change the...
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BioSkin Facade Wins Tall Building Innovation Award
BioSkin facade, a system of water-filled ceramic pipes that cools the exterior surface of buildings and their surrounding micro-climates, has won the 2014 Tall Building Innovation Award from the...
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Ecoflo Coco Filter Provides Natural Wastewater Treatment System
Premier Tech Aqua (PTA), a Business Unit of the Environmental Technologies Group of Premier Tech, announced earlier this month that it had achieved a breakthrough and launched its recently NSF...
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Penda’s Unique Creations
In design, when concepts become creations that the world hasn’t seen before, then the job is well done. A young and upcoming firm is Penda and their goal is to create nothing that isn’t unique and...
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Urbana Creates Beautiful Experiences
When art is experienced it becomes part of a person and if the experience is grand enough it becomes part of the space it occupies. A design firm that specializes in such unique visual experiences is...
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Smart Meters Get Smarter With New Microcontrollers
Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC) announced the newest addition to its TX04 series of ARM® Cortex®-M4F core-based microcontrollers (MCUs). The TMPM411F20XBG MCU facilitates electric...
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Farmers Get Energy From Coffee Wastewater
UTZ Certified publishes the results of a four-year project on coffee wastewater treatment Coffee farmers cook with biogas made available through the Energy from Coffee Wastewater Program The Energy...
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More Building Materials of the Future
Thanks to Gizmodo Australia for this look into seven building materials of the future. The gap between material science and actual construction is very far and very wide. It can take decades to move...
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Lowe’s Smart Home Survey – Results
A new smart home study released by Lowe’s found that while Rosie the Robot is the futuristic feature consumers would want most from “The Jetsons,” more than 70 percent of smart phone users in America...
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Amazon Heats Building With Data Center Waste Heat
Old tech- in the form of hydronic heating- meets new in nearby data centers, creating ‘green heating’ in Amazon’s latest new buildings in Seattle, WA. The offices and work areas of the new Amazon...
View ArticleSoccer Field Lights Powered By Players’ Energy
In a Brazilian neighborhood plagued by blackouts, panels under the turf of a neighborhood soccer field, fueled by players running over them, provide electricity to light the field and the surrounding...
View ArticleLEED Dynamic Plaque Provides Real-Time LEED Ratings
Digital plaque provides up-to-the-minute energy and water use, and provides a current LEED Rating for the building For those who wonder whether green buildings stay green after they are designed and...
View ArticleLight Bandit Brings Daylight to any Room in the House
For those of us who are deep in the dark of winter, this is a great time to think about bringing sunlight into our homes. The Light Bandit allows sunlight to be directed fiber-optically to any room in...
View ArticleFacebook Game Power House Saves Energy and Money
The Facebook game Power House may finally make all those hours spent mindlessly playing games online pay off! The object of the game is to guide a family of four through daily activities using as...
View ArticleWind Tree Provides Silent Wind Power Beautifully
A new French start-up, NewWind, is making wind power beautiful! Their new Wind Tree offers almost a hundred mini-windmills on an apparatus designed to look like a tree. Due to the light construction...
View ArticleFirst US Power-to-Gas Plants Open in California and Colorado
Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas) is bringing science fiction to life, launching two demonstration projects to create and test a carbon-free, power-to-gas system for the first time ever in the...
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