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A Soap Dispenser Alternative by Nathalie Staempfl
Not only is this design visually interesting, but there are ecological benefits to using block soap instead of liquid. Blocks of soap are more concentrated, contain less water and easier to stack and transport. Also, instead of plastic bottles, a bar of soap can be packaged in paper.
via swissmiss
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‘Bio-Bug’ Taps the Power of Human Waste
“…The waste from 70 homes can power the Bio-Bug for a year, according to Wessex Water and its subsidiary, GENeco…Already more than 11,500 vehicles in Sweden run on sewage-generated biomethane.” Read the article at Reuters
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Dyson’s Innovative Fan
Yesterday at the Post Family’s art show Cantankerous Hellfighter, I saw this really cool fan from Dyson. There are no blades. Instead it draws in and “amplifies surrounding air, giving an uninterrupted stream of smooth air.”
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Interesting transportation concept that saves time and energy – The train that never stops
How it works (view the movie):
1. To board the train :
The passengers at a station embarks onto to a connector cabin way before the train even arrives at the station. When the train arrives, it will not stop at all. It just slows down to pick up the connector cabin which will move with the train on the roof of the train. While the train is still moving away from the station, those passengers will board the train from the connector cabin mounted on the train’s roof. After fully unloading all its passengers, the cabin connector cabin will be moved to the back of the train so that the next batch of outgoing passengers who want to alight at the next station will board the connector cabin at the rear of the train roof.2. To get off the train:
As stated after fully unloading all its passengers, the cabin connector cabin will be moved to the back of the train so that the next batch of outgoing passengers who want to alight at the next station will board the connector cabin at the rear of the train roof. When the train arrives at the next station, it will simply drop the whole connector cabin at the station itself and leave it behind at the station. The outgoing passengers can take their own time to disembark at the station while the train had already left. At the same time, the train will pick up the incoming embarking passengers on another connector cabin in the front part of the train’s roof. So the train will always drop one connector cabin at the rear of its roof and pick up a new connector cabin in the front part of the train’s roof at each station.via Jake Berlin
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A creative way to give old data new life
This Nytimes.com interactive graphic examines “Netflix rental patterns, neighborhood by neighborhood, in a dozen cities” and then links the top rentals to old Nytimes.com movie reviews.
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I know this has done the rounds already, but it’s refreshing to see a major publication pushing forward like this, rather than just complaining about the decline of print.
I don’t think print will ever really die, but for journalistic type publications, it’s a fast sinking ship unless they’re adopting a mentality like sports illustrated appear to be doing.
