After spending several years in the habitation department at NASA, developing living spaces for the International Space Station as well as multiple off earth exploration vehicles, designer Garrett Finney left in 2009 to launch his dream recreation…
Fossil fuel cheerleaders take note: Renewable energy ain’t going nowhere — and it may prove to be the better bet in the long run.By 2030, renewables will account for 70 percent of new power supply worldwide, according to projections released Monda…
“Not lack of ability, but more choice,” say researchers.
Silicon Valley’s hottest companies are hurting for women engineers. And many pixels have been spilled trying to figure out why. The answer, according to a study released by Pitt…
The TrafficCom lets you measure how many cars drive on your street and figure out traffic patterns. And you can now get one via Kickstarter—just like the guys at NASA.
There’s something about the moment NASA places an order that gives any…
This $800 device, designed by NewDealDesign, zaps particles using titanium dioxide.
As the space program shifted its focus from putting life into space to sustaining life in space, the plentiful technologies to emerge from its hollowed…
Everyone knows that mashing the gas, slamming on the brakes and cruising at high speeds kills fuel economy. And considering the average driver spends upwards of $3,000 a year on gas, you’d think people would be more inclined to change …
The company’s new diesel engine will get 44 mpg plus meet strict emission standards.
Diesel-engine designers have long grappled with a dilemma: Reducing emissions meant either cutting efficiency or adding expensive equipment. With the…
Nothing says “Welcome to the Future” like a 3D-printed runabout vehicle with a hybrid engine, three wheels, speeds of up to 110 mph, and capacity to carry up to 1,200 lbs. The Urbee 2 is the result of Jim Kor’s dream for a modern, sustainable vehi…
Every 10 to 15 years the enterprise market goes through an upheaval where the next generation of technology replaces the old. We’re in the early stages of one of those big displacements right now, where huge companies are brought to …
The technology industry has been ranked most-trusted for the second consecutive year, ahead of the automotive, and food and beverageindustries, according to the 2013 Edelman Trust Barometer.”As an industry, I think tech companies pre-anticipate a…
The Cricket Trailer, designed by NASA Architect Garrett Finney, is a mini mobile home inspired by the tight but efficient quarters of the NASA space station. Finney, who helped design the “habitation module” where the astronauts eat and…
The Green Button program has forced utilities to standardize the way they present their energy use numbers to their customers. In turn, that data has caused an explosion of apps and services to help you save energy—and money.
The brand expands on its “Time to Be Brave” philosophy by calculating roughly how much time each of its fans has in which to be brave.If you knew the extent of your projected longevity, it would probably change the way you lived your life. In the…
NASA has released images of Earth at night from the Suomi National Polar-Orbiting Partnership satellite that is orbiting 512 miles above the Earth’s surface. The agency stitched some of these images together to create a…
The ReadySet portable base station can draw and store energy from a number of sources: A 15-watt solar panel charges its battery in seven hours. Next year, Fenix will release a kinetic generator, which can hel…
This Instructable explains how to use a gas sensor with your Arduino.
This lets your Arduino smell (and hence you program responses to) overall gas levels for a variety of nasties, including ethanol, methane, formaldehyde, and a bunch o…
The Fab Academy is a six-month long digital fabrication program directed by MIT’s Neil Gershenfeld, and based on his rapid prototyping course How to Make (Almost) Anything. The Fab Academy started as an MIT outreach program, an…
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