The winner of the Australian Electrolux Design Lab 2011 is a cool (and hot) ribbon concept. Meanwhile, on the other side of the vacuum cleaner fence, an Australian designers concept for a condensation crop watering system is in the running for the James Dyson 2011 Award.
Admit it, most of us learned the letter C from the Cookie Monster’s iconic “C is for Cookie” song. But today’s kids — they have it better. They’re getting some Mythbusters along with their early morning fill of Big Bird.
Charles Guan, recent MIT grad, is certainly a certifiable tinkerer. Where I see a skateboard and a snowblower engine he sees a portable off-road skateboard. Completely DIY, it got noticed at the World Maker Faire New York on Saturday.
When you’re building in Tokyo, you’ve got a lot of building codes that have to be adhered to; most of these relate to the kinds of natural disasters that have all too sadly plagued Japan in recent years. Sony’s Tokyo HQ goes one better; company representatives claim it’s got a three-storey high pop-up tsunami barrier.
The Big Dig, a Boston engineering boondoggle that’s national news mostly because you helped us pay for it, is basically a death trap. It’s killed people already, and some precariously perched lights were apparently preparing to off a few more.
