Self-Healing Electronics – Reducing Our e-Waste

Publicado el febrero 4, 2012 por Create and Share

As electronics get smaller, the circuits that run the world have become more fragile. Those are the circuits that control jet airplanes, nuclear power plants, and pretty much everything upon which we depend in modern life. Although redundant systems prevent catastrophe, when one circuit fails in the ubiquitous electronic devices we use, it most often means waste. In the best case, a wasted chip that needs replacing, but more often a trash can full of e-waste as the cost to find and repair the break outweighs the replacement cost. Sigue leyendo →

Orgonite – What is it and how can we make it?

Publicado el febrero 2, 2012 por Create and Share

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Orgonite is a simple compound that anyone can create in their backyard with fairly inexpensive, widely-available materials which balances ambient energy by turning the negative energy into positive energy, with many easily-confirmed effects. Orgonite does this continuously, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, without electricity. Sigue leyendo →

MAKEDO: Creating Things From the Stuff Around You

Publicado el enero 20, 2012 por Create and Share

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The possibilities of what you can make with makedo are limited only by the materials you find and your imagination.

Wouldn’t you love to make play objects, kid’s costumes, furniture, decorations for the home and well, just about anything you can think of from the materials around you? makedo makes it possible and impossibly fun, as it is a connector system that enables materials including cardboard, plastic and fabric to easily join together to form new objects or structures. When you’re done playing, simply pull it apart to reuse over and over again. Sigue leyendo →

The Creators Project – Joining Creativity & Technology

Publicado el diciembre 27, 2011 por Create and Share

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Vice and Intel launched last year The Creators Project, a global initiative bringing together the worlds leading and most relevant innovators in music, art, film, design and architecture through a common passion for creativity and technology.

In just 1 year, The Creators Project has become a cultural phenomenon. Tens of thousands of guests have attended the events, and the content was viewed over 55 million times online.

The project unites a vast collection of artists, designers, musicians and filmmakers who are using technology to push the bounds of creative expression. To date, there are more than 100 Creators involved, hailing mostly from seven countries (United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Brazil, South Korea and China) along with other artists from around the world.

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Curbing the E-Waste Problem

Publicado el diciembre 14, 2011 por Create and Share

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It’s easy to get excited about getting new gadgets, but we rarely give an afterthought to what happens to our old laptops or cell phones after we put them out on the curb. Some of us might be more responsible and bring them to the nearest recycling facility for proper disposal, but the fact of the matter is e-waste – which includes any discarded or end-of-life appliances that used electricity or has electrically-powered parts — contain both valuable and hazardous materials such as lead or mercury. And like other toxin-containing goods, e-waste requires special recycling methods in order to properly dispose of its materials. Sigue leyendo →

PlantBook: the eco-friendly laptop that mimics nature

Publicado el noviembre 28, 2011 por Create and Share

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Lately there is a lot of information running through the Internet regarding the energy impact of our daily use of laptop computers. In this context was developed the PlantBook project, an ecological laptop computer that keeps on surprising the whole world.

Its design is elegant and attractive, and its production includes a wise combination of organic and artificial materials. A cilinder holds the screen and the keyboard, so that these can be rolled and take the shape of a bamboo trunk. However, the most surprising feature of this ecological gadget is that PlantBook “feeds” in exactly the same way as plants: through the photosynthesis process. How? Sigue leyendo →

Education Through the Ages (Infographic)

Publicado el noviembre 25, 2011 por Create and Share

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Education is part of our identity. Education is instinctual, we begin learning instantly, taking insights and sounds to make sense of the world. We are all products of education, but the education process has changed dramatically through the ages.

First Electric Vehicle Wireless Charging Already Available

Publicado el noviembre 19, 2011 por Create and Share

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The video that we share with you all today seems to be pure science-fiction. However, this technology (property of Qualcomm Incorporated) will be tested for the first time in London in early 2012, more precisely, the trial will be held at Tech City. Is this the end of fossil fuels?

The wireless energy transmission, proposed decades ago by Nikola Tesla, is already a reality. Simultaneously to the automobile industry, there are several mobile phone companies that are currently using the wireless charging system successfully. Sigue leyendo →

How Wind Power is Harvested (Infographic)

Publicado el noviembre 6, 2011 por Create and Share

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Mo: the Alternative Mobility System for the City

Publicado el noviembre 4, 2011 por Create and Share

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With more than seven billion people in the world and more than a half living in cities, the urban development programs constitute one of the most important practices of our time. A key point is how to manage the mobility of the inhabitants of the cities.

Among the strategies aimed at creating more efficient and less polluting transport in the cities are the promotion of the bicycle as a means of transport, the enhancement of of the public services, the development of product-service systems such as Zipcar, and the production of less contaminating cars. However, none of these alternatives constitutes a comprehensive solution.

With the aim of offering a more integral view to the subject matter, the design agency located in San Francisco, palo Alto and Munich, Lunar, developed the project Mo: a flexible mobility system that combines different means of transport under a single membership, offering compensations when the users choose the most sustainable alternative.
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