Tag: gabrielle taylor
Carnival of the Green #59 opens at Hippyshopper
Hippyshopper hosts the first Carnival of the Green for 2007, and being the first one in three weeks, it’s triple packed. Up top we’ve got word from Carnival founder and Hippyshopper emeritus Al Tepper, who was tapped to write…
Waterwheel Invention Promises Cheap Electricity
No details on how precisely it works, but the astounding news from the Daily Mail is on a waterwheel that needs only an 18 inch fall of water to generate enough power to run an entire house. Developed by…
Turn old vinyl into a new fruit bowl
Instead of leaving those ancient slabs of vinyl to moulder in the space above your car port, you can pop them in the oven until supple and then mold the now-limp record into a satin-candy crinkled fruit bowl. (You…
Apple Patents Hybrid Low Power Computer Mouse
Citing well-known lousiness of wireless mouse battery life, Apple has filed a patent application for a hybrid tracking low power wireless mouse. See geek details here but the gist of it is you'd have a mouse that would only…
EveR2-Muse Robot smiles, yawns, sings
Resembling a human woman with the eye-sockets of Kermit the Frog, EveR2-Muse Robot is the latest offering from AVING, and can show the gamut of emotions from anger to boredom. Her eyes are actually wide-range CCD cameras, so her…
Brightec Glow In The Dark Paper
Instead of using light boxes, movie posters could be printed on BRIGHTEC glow in the dark paper which, after only a few minutes' exposure to light, glows for hours. It also functions like typical inkjet paper, so you can…
One Laptop Per Child is a go
Seems like only yesterday I was wondering what had become of One Laptop Per Child – but it's a go! The XO laptop is targeted at a $100 per unit price point, with intent to provide one to every…
Solar Powered Trackable Clothing
If you're in a profession where it's important that people be able to locate you instantly (a paramedic or fireman, for example), or a hobbyist given to visiting remote areas, wearing a GPS dot may be either a desirable…
College harnesses cow pat power
We noted recently that cows are producing a lot of global warming gases. What more sensible, then, than to harness that awesome power for good instead of evil? Which is precisely what is happening at Walford and North Shropshire…
Solar Powered Bluetooth GPS
While you do want your GPS available whenever you want it, ultimately you don't want it that often. Not only that, but parts of it are able to rest even when you do want it. So it's only logical…
