A Pre-Fab Bamboo Bicycle, Grown From The Ground In Bike Shape The Ajiro--a concept from Australia--would come from the Earth fully formed. Is this the first step for a sustainable manufacturing economy?
Updated Thu Aug 4, 2011
A Hamburger Chain That Asks Its Customers To Not Order Hamburgers When a sustainability consulting firm told Swedish burger chain Max Burgers that its main problem was selling beef, the company actually started trying to sell less of its main product.
Updated Thu Aug 4, 2011
How Short-Lived, Slow-Moving Companies Can Become More Like Fast, Creative Cities Cities get faster and more productive as they get bigger and last forever. Companies get slower and more boring, and then they go out of business. Can companies change that model?
Updated Tue Aug 2, 2011
When It Comes to Fast Food, Labeling Can Lower Calorie Counts Those calorie counts on fast food menus that make you feel bad about your extra-large fries actually work. Unless, of course, you found the advertisements really convincing.
Updated Mon Aug 1, 2011
Crowdsourcing Translation: To Citizen Scientists, It's All Greek Ancient Lives, a project of citizen scholarship Zooniverse, makes it possible for regular folks with no knowledge of Greek to help with the work of translating important ancient Greek documents.
Updated Thu Jul 28, 2011
With Scavenged Power And Data Furnaces, Finding Energy In Waste Not all inventions need to involve new discoveries. Two new projects--one which draws power from the air, one which uses heat from servers--show that we can hack our way out of wasteful systems.
Updated Thu Jul 28, 2011
Festo's Robotic SmartBird Wants To Join The Flock A robotic bird that is so lifelike it fools other birds into flying with it may be the first step in humanity's ability to truly mimic the natural world, and thus learn how to better use our planet.
Updated Tue Jul 26, 2011
Ocean Index: A Doomsday Clock For The World's Oceans Scientists are making an effort to quantify the health of our oceans into one easy-to-read score. If that's even possible, will it actually motivate us to change our behavior?
Updated Fri Jul 22, 2011
From Sea To Plate, ThisFish Tells The Stories Of The Ones That Didn't Get Away New technology allows you to see not just where your seafood comes from, but also to connect with the fisherman who caught it--all with the snap of your phone's camera.
Updated Thu Jul 21, 2011
With Elerts, Emergency Broadcasts Go Digital A new app allows first responders to issue alerts to citizens, and for users to make reports about accidents and even find each other after a disaster.
Updated Thu Jul 21, 2011
Cracking The Body's Source Code With Your Smartphone A new app will help you diagnose and track skin conditions--from wrinkles to melanoma. But if even doctors haven't fully mastered the use of health apps, it might not be time to start making your phone your primary care physician.
Updated Thu Jul 7, 2011
How Craft Beer Brewers Hope To Help Towns Hit By Hard Times A new initiative aims to find ways for craft breweries to be the business that powers dying industrial towns.
Updated Wed Jul 6, 2011
CO2 Emissions Now Good For Something: Measuring Your Health Besides creating climate change, carbon dioxide emissions are an important measure of how healthy we are. New technology could save lives by making it easier for doctors to monitor your CO2.
Updated Tue Jul 5, 2011
In Fukushima, Sunflowers Sow Hope For A Radioactive-Free Future A plan to plant flowers to clean up radiation in Japan isn't as crazy as it sounds.
Updated Fri Jul 1, 2011
The Second Disease To Ever Be Globally Eradicated: Rinderpest While it's a disease that only sickens animals, its effects have been felt for centuries, and its elimination could mean wonders for the developing world.
Updated Thu Jun 30, 2011
The Rosetta Project Is Preserving Every Language Ever Spoken, On One Nano-Etched Piece Of Metal A project of the Long Now Foundation, the aim is to make sure we preserve the knowledge contained in dying languages in one place: "If languages are our how-to guides for living on planet Earth, we are handing our descendants an encyclopedia with almost all of the pages ripped out."
Updated Wed Jun 29, 2011
Only Five Networked Cars For Every 1,000 Would End Traffic By hooking up just a few cars to a grid that allows engineers to adjust conditions based on real-time traffic conditions, everyone would be blessed with congestion-free rides.
Updated Tue Jun 28, 2011
Suwappu: The Cute Toys That Spell The Future Of Human/Machine Interaction These little block figurines interact with you via augmented reality. It's a step toward computers that we can interact with in a way that's comfortable for us and easy for them to understand.
Updated Mon Jun 27, 2011
This Vending Machine Will Give You (Live) Crabs Instead of the usual chips, soda, and other processed food, Chinese gourmands can now have a live crab dispensed to them at the mall or airport.
Updated Fri Jun 24, 2011
A New Camouflaged Camera Gets Up Close To Nature The magi-cam is a robotic and mirrored surveillance device that most animals can't even see--taking advantage of many species' lack of sense of self.
Updated Thu Jun 23, 2011
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