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Until smartphone batteries last for weeks on end, carrying a backup charging cable wherever you go will be a necessary evil. But at least you don't have to deal with a perpetual tangle of wires if you import SoftBank's new Itomaki AC Adapters. They're shaped like a thread spool letting you wind your cable around so it's always neat and tidy.Read more...
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[ By WebUrbanist in Technology & Vehicles & Mods. ] Bicyclists need this. Incredible design is not just about looking good (which this does) or working well (which this does), but weaving the solution so that each seems the natural outcome of the other. With a headlight on the front, break light on the back, and two swooping turn signals on the sides, this streamlined helmet (the result of nu..
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[ By WebUrbanist in Architecture & Public & Institutional. ] Bio-reactors and micro-algae sound like the stuff of science fiction, but this is the real deal: biomass built into panel glass is both generating heat and acting as a responsive light and sound barrier, all in one brilliant new building in Hamburg. Arup has long been predicting incredible innovations in architecture, but they are al..
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In a field inundated with options, finding thoughtful and functional smartphone accessories can be an overwhelming task. Any tech-savvy driver will tell you that a dual USB charger is a must-have, filling the void where the cigarette lighter used to be (no one...
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The Window Socket offers a neat way to harness solar energy and use it as a plug socket. So far we have seen solutions that act as a solar battery backup, but none as a direct plug-in. Simple in design, the plug just attaches to any window and does its job intuitively. Designers: Kyuho Song & Boa Oh - Yanko Design Timeless Designs - Explore wonderful concepts from around the world! Yanko ..
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Serious travellers who need to stay connected when on the road know that a backup battery of some sort is a must-have travel companion. And it's no surprise that a battery pack named after one of the strongest animals on earth, a silverback gorilla, boasts that it can keep a laptop running for an amazing 14 hours straight. More »
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[ By WebUrbanist in Gadgets & Geekery & Technology. ] This liquid-filled glass sphere design is so powerful (no pun intended) in its ability to turn light into heat that it can not only harvest the rays of the sun, but even draw on energy reflected from the moon. André Broessel is the European architect and engineer behind this weatherproof harvesting system. It is in many regards more robus..
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Step On In Steve Snodgrass via FlickrElevator riders tend to arrange themselves into mini social hierarchies. Rebekah Rousi, a Ph.D. student in cognitive science, conducted an ethnographic study of elevator behavior in two of the tallest office buildings in Adelaide, Australia. After taking a total of 30 elevator rides in the two buildings, she discovered there was an established order to where..
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Unless you're completely killing your smartphone's battery on a daily basis, you don't need to haul around a massive backup battery. A single emergency charge is all most of us need for those days when we talk or stream more than we intended, which makes the Tarot's 1,500 mAh capacity the perfect balance of size vs. power. More »
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A nuclear reactor meltdown is mankind’s worst sci-fi nightmare, and NASA says it’s not nearly as lethal as the coal we burn every day. If you’ve seen the most recent photos from Fukushima, the prefecture containing Japan’s devastated nuclear plant, you’ll get a taste of how bad things are. It’s a radioactive ghost town. And what you don’t see in the dusty-surreal Google Street V..
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Opponents of windmills cite the dangers the spinning blades post to birds, the risk of damage due to storms, and the maintenance required to keep all those moving parts running smoothly. But what if a windmill lacked blades and didn't move at all? That's the idea behind the Delft University of Technology's EWICON which looks more like a modern piece of art more than an eco-friendly source of ene..
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The first people to step on to the surface of Mars won't arrive aboard the chemical-fueled rockets that delivered Apollo 11 to the Moon—they simply don't provide enough thrust to get to the Red Planet before exposing their crews to months of dangerous space radiation. Instead, NASA is turning to long-ignored nuclear-thermal rocket technology to deliver the first Martian explorers into history...
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[ By WebUrbanist in Conceptual & Futuristic & Technology. ] Forget the trailer and start trailblazing – this emission-free and fully-electric vehicle can juice up just like its Tesla cousins, but can also use photovoltaics and solar sails to recharge well off the beaten path. Picture the three-wheeled Ecco as the latest in a long-standing series of streamlined and transforming vehicles for ..
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The Inland Empire's cadre of water treatment plants clean millions of gallons of waste water every day. But what to do with all that left over poo? Normally it's unceremoniously dumped in a local landfill but at Regional Water Recycling Plant No. 1, that massive pile of crap is put to a better use—making electricity with the largest biogas fuel cell generator in America. More »
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But why is the oil-rich UAE investing in new ways to harness energy from the sun? Last week Abu Dhabi, the home to the Emir and most of the UAE’s oil wealth, celebrated the opening of the largest solar plant on Earth. Shams 1, as the plant is called, is a development of 258,048 parabolic trough mirrors that produce enough energy to power 20,000 homes. The one-square-mile plant sits about 70..
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[ By Steph in Architecture & Cities & Urbanism. ] An abandoned power station that has been an iconic part of London’s skyline since 1933 is transformed into a playground and museum in the “Architectural Ride London” proposal by Atelier Zündel Cristea. The concept makes use of the Battersea Power Station, which was decommissioned in 1983, preserving its history while making it both an edu..
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The addition of USB ports have made power bars even more useful as of late. And Quirky's new Pickup Power promises to now make them almost indispensable with the addition of a large rechargeable battery that can continue to top off your mobile devices when you're away from an outlet. More »
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Like a regular Joe transformed into a superhero through some freak accident, this giant power adapter turns a single outlet into an all-encompassing charging station for all of your gear. Technically, it requires two outlets since the second gets completely blocked, but that's ok since the Bestek charging station more than makes up for that loss with six new AC outlets, four USB ports, and a doc..
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When lightning flashes across the sky, you only get a chance to glimpse its fractal form for a split second. But when you send 15,000 volts coursing through plywood, you get a much better look at how it grows. Melanie Hoff, a student at the Pratt Institute in New York City did just that, and the result is a timelapse where you can see the patterns slowly grow out and smolder, like lightning made..
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CoconutBattery (무료)맥북의 배터리 상태를 한눈에 파악할 수 있는 코코넛 배터리(CoconutBattery)가 2.8 버전으로 업데이트되면서 상당히 유용한 기능이새로 추가되었습니다. 일단 새기능 소개에 앞서 기존에 제공되던 기능을 먼저 훑어보도록하겠습니다.
코코넛 배터리(CoconutBattery) 소개
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Occupy Wall Street’s slogan “We are the 99%” had been echoing through the United States and the world for just over a month when James B. Glattfelder and his co-authors released the study “The Network of Global Corporate Control” in October 2011. The study was a scientific look at our global economy, revealing how control flows like water through pipes — some thin, some thick — bet..
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[ By WebUrbanist in Architecture & Public & Institutional. ]
When is a building not a building? When it is only a facade, (aka) dummy! You might have passed right by train tunnels, communications towers or even entirely empty buildings and never realized you were being duped – until now.
Underground Train Passage & Ventilation in Rowhouse
Consider units 23 & 24, Lein..
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[ By WebUrbanist in Architecture & Public & Institutional. ] When is a building not a building? When it is only a facade, (aka) dummy! You might have passed right by train tunnels, communications towers or even entirely empty buildings and never realized you were being duped – until now. Underground Train Passage & Ventilation in Rowhouse Consider units 23 & 24, Leinster Gardens in Paddingto..
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Power outages can be seriously obnoxious. No Internet, no TV, no lights. On top of that, they can be dangerous, especially in the cold. A prolonged outage is always a danger during a serious storm, no matter the kind. And while it might not happen, you always want to be prepared. More »
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Entergy New Orleans, the utility that provides power to the Mercedes SuperDome in New Orleans, announced today that its technicians had determined the cause of the partial blackout during the Super Bowl last Sunday: an electrical relay the company had installed to prevent blackouts.
The relay was supposed to trip switches to redirect power in the event of a line fault over one of the cables co..
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들어가며맥을재시동/잠자기/종료시킬 수 있는 여러 방법들 가운데서도 아래 키보드 단축키가 가장 빨리 해당 기능을 사용할 수 있지만 조합이 복잡하고 서로 비슷한 탓에 맥을 오래 사용한 사람도 단축키 조합을 외우지 못하거나 햇갈려 하는 경우를 어렵지 않게 찾아볼 수 있습니다.
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When Milan-based engineer and photographer Andrea Biffi needed a constant source of power for his Canon 40D in order to shoot time-lapse photos over many hours, he decided to save some money by going the DIY route. Biffi turned a defunct lithium DSLR battery into a power supply unit that can be used with everything from a wall outlet to a car battery.
You can do the same thing at home, but you..
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Don't be so smug the next time you walk away from a trade show with a mountain of free flash drives. They require electricity too, and with this simple USB power monitor you can calculate just how much those supposedly 'free' giveaways are contributing to your monthly power bill. More »
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석유에너지의 환경적 자원적 문제가 불거진 이 후 세상은 신재생 에너지를 외치고 있는데요. 태양열 에너지도 그 한 부분이지요. 태양열에너지는 태양열전지판을 이용해 에너지를 축척한다는것은 누구나 알고 있죠? 흔히들 태양열 에너지 하면 건물위에 올려져 있는 큰 태양열전지판을 떠올리곤 합..
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맥북과 모바일 디바이스를 어댑터 하나로 동시에 충전할 수 있는 컨셉으로 미국/일본에서는 상당한 인기를 구사한 트웰브사우스(TwelveSouth)사의 플러그버그(PlugBug)...
하지만 110볼트(V) 플러그 밖에 지원하지 않아 위 2개 국가 이외의 지역에서는 크게 반향을 불러일으키지 못했는데요, 이번에 애플 순정..
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캠핑을 즐기시는 분들이 꽤나 유용하게 이용하실 만한 맥용 악세서리가 출시됐습니다.
전원 주변장치 전문업체 퀵커텍(QuickerTek)이최대 62와트(W)까지 전력 생산이 가능한 태양광 맥북 충전장치 'Solar Juicz'를출시했습니다. 다른 유사 필름 충전 기기에 비해 출력 효율이 우수한 CIGS(Copper Indium Gallium DiSeleni..
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Here at Ars Technica, we're no strangers to overzealous EULAs. But a clause in the EULA for the beta version of Electronic Arts' new Sim City might take the cake for punishing users for seemingly innocuous actions... or lack of actions.
As Twitter user Dan Teasdale tweeted recently (and SideQuesting promoted), the end-user license agreement you have to sign to get access to the new Sim City beta..
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You might not think that plants and electricity are very closely related, but these two lamps use the power of nature to provide illumination. One uses soil to light a lamp and the other uses a plant to control the amount of light that is sent out into the room – but both meld the natural and the man-made in an elegant manner. The Soil Lamp from designer Mareike Staps uses the natural conduct..
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Amy Cuddy gave a fascinating, and research-backed, suggestion for anyone heading into a job interview, a first date or a public speaking event: stand in front of a mirror, put your hands on your hips, tilt your chin up, and make yourself as tall as you can get. Even better: throw your arms up and out. In her lab, Cuddy found that “power posing” for two minutes was enough to increase testoste..
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[ By WebUrbanist in Art & Photography & Video. ]
Ever get done reading a chapter and feel like the book is more real than the room around you? Now, what if that were literally true of your favorite volume? What might that look like?
Mladen Penev does photography, retouching, but also takes some liberties that go beyond mere editing, like this series entitled the Power of Book..
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