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Monthly Archives: May 2013
Sticky Solar Chargers
What do you think of this guys, solar powered outlet that you can stick to your window. Sounds convenient? read the article from http://www.fastcoexist.com
“That dreaded moment when your phone or computer runs out of battery usually inspires the electrically impaired to begin a frantic search for an outlet at the nearest coffee shop. But a solar-powered charger would let power-hungry people seek out an abundantly available resource to address their power needs: sunshine.
Recently posted to Yanko Design, Kyuho Song and Boa Oh’s design concepts for a suction-cup-equipped solar power charger provides an elegant solution to all our power needs. The charger sticks to the window, exposing solar panels to the sun on one side, with an outlet to plug in a device on the reverse. According to their mockups, the device would take five to eight hours to fully charge, and would provide 10 hours of electricity at that point.
While it’s just a concept now, look out for the commercialized product as the world’s best stocking stuffer in coming holiday seasons.”
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Perkins + Will’s Prefab Sprout Space Classroom Creates a Healthy, Green Learning Environment
This would be a nice design for a learning institution. It is eco friendly and it has great lighting to induce studying. What do you guys think? Share your thoughts and comment!
Finally an App to Prevent TV Spoilers on Twitter
17-Year-Old Builds App to Prevent TV Spoilers on Twitter
Finally you will no longer be afraid to open your twitter page or app whenever you’re watching your favorite TV Show. There is now an application to prevent seeing spoilers of your favorite shows on your twitter feed.
Setting out to fix that very issue, 17-year-old Jen Lamere recently took home the top prize at the TVnext hack event in Boston (where she was the only female participating) for her Twivo app for Google Chrome. The concept is exactly how it sounds: Tivo for tweets.
Twivo puts a block on tweets with keywords relevant to any show during certain periods of time. This way, you never have to be afraid to check out Twitter while away from the TV.
Plants Can Talk
Plants Can Talk
Did you know that plants can talk to each other? In fact they talk to each other via fungi.
The BBC reports that an underground network of mycorrhizae fungi often connect plants to each other, allowing information to be transmitted between them. This is from a recent study that set up bean plants to be attacked by aphids. Most plants are able to defend themselves from aphids by releasing chemicals that “both repel the aphids and attract parasitic wasps that are aphids’ natural predators,” because nature is just amazing like that. Scientists found that plants that were connected underground through fungi began to release those chemicals when a neighboring plant was set upon by aphids. Plants that were not connected did not. Therefore, they concluded, the plants must have warned each other through the fungi.
Also, the scientists put bags on all of the plants to prevent them from communicating with each other through the air because it turns out that plants can do that, too.
Now you will think twice before eating that salad or mushroom burger.
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2013/05/plants-can-talk/65130/
Melting Arctic Seas are Turning into Giant Pools of Acid
http://inhabitat.com/melting-arctic-seas-are-turning-into-giant-pools-of-acid-researchers-warn/
According to BBC report:
“AMAP has charted pH levels across the northern seas, according to the BBC, and found that acidification is taking place across the expanse and at varying depths. Higher levels of acidification have been observed where freshwater from rivers and melting land runs into the alkaline waters, since freshwater is unable to neutralize CO2 effectively.
“There’s slow mixing so in effect we get a sort of freshwater lens on the top of the sea in some places, and freshwater lowers the concentration of ions that buffers pH change. The sea ice has been a lid on the Arctic, so the loss of ice is allowing fast uptake of CO2,” lead researcher Richard Bellerby from the Norwegian Institute for Water Researchtold the paper.
Some marine creatures will thrive with the higher levels of acidification, but others will suffer, and commercial fishing is likely to feel the impact as well. The arctic seas are approximately 30 percent more acidic now than they were before the dawn of the industrial revolution, according to the researchers, who add that even a total cessation of carbon emissions would fail to return them to their former state. That will take tens of thousands of years.”
First NBA Cafe in Asia to open in Manila
As we all know there will be the first NBA preseason game here in the Philippines but aside from that they are also planning to launch the FIRST NBA CAFE IN ASIA? You heard it right, they will launch the first NBA Cafe in Manila and it will soon open in SM AURA Mall in Bonifacio Global City.
The NBA Cafe is scheduled to open this September 2013 and it will feature a unique entertainment experience because it will have different memorabilia displays and they will also invite NBA talent over. This is the first sports bar in Manila catering to basketball fanatics.
The NBA Cafe will surely be a hit because the Philippines is known to be a basketball nation.
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