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New Pipe Design Turns Taking A Shower Into An Energy-Generating Activity
The ES Pipe Waterwheel, designed by Korean innovator Ryan Jongwoo Choi, is a simple plumbing accessory that turns simple workaday activities — running a bath, washing your hands, hosing off the dog — into hydroelectricity generative tasks.
Descriptive Camera Doesn’t Take Pictures, But Has A Masterful Command Of English
Matt Richardson’s “Descriptive Camera” doesn’t take pictures, not even blurry ones. But it works just fine. Rather than capturing an image on film, Richardson’s invention — a prototype built for a Computational Cameras class at New York University‘s Interactive Telecommunications Program — prints out a descriptive bit of text about the photo.
Twitter Calls For Patent Wars Truce
Twitter is calling for an industry-wide armistice in the intellectual property wars. Today it announced the Innovator’s Patent Agreement (IPA), a pact that it will not use employees’ patents for offensive measures, but rather to protect itself when it is necessary.
How An Auto Body Innovation Revolutionised The Way We Build Skyskrapers
Certainly you’ve assembled a piece of IKEA furniture and experienced that special kind of frustration that comes with realising the screw holes don’t line up and you have to take everything apart and put it together it again. Now imagine this problem at 230m in the air with massive steel girders instead of particle board. When those holes don’t line up, it’s a whole different kind of frustration.
World’s Smallest Mic Makes Wearing A Wire A Lot Safer
Stoolies, rats, and snitches might one day have Bahram Azizollah Ganji to thank for not getting killed. Because he just created the world’s smallest capacitor microphone, measuring in at just half a millimetre on each side.
