GOOD NEWS, DESIGN LINKS JULY16/09

Secrets of the PARTHENON; One of the best documentaries ever...the renovation of PARTHENON, after 30 years and 100 million$$ the work continues, the secrets slowly revealed. Fabulous! A 2 minute preview at the link...the full hour at YouTube

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Student Jesus Sanchez now has a patent for a revolutionary wheelchair accessible escalator, that also accommodates other large loads, uses one track and 35% less power. See the intro video here
www.upc.edu/saladepremsa/al-dia/mes-noticies/a-student-from-etseiat...
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Monarchy Rocking Stool
Yiannis Ghikas has designed the amazing Monarchy Rocking Stool, designed to rock forwards and from side-to-side, swiveling without turning over, allowing "the user to escape the dullness of the ultimate stability." Watch the video here

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Urban Camping: Above the hustle bustle of the street
Urban Camping is a project by Belgian Architects Oscar Rommens and Joris Van Reusel of Impot.export ARCHITECTURE that provides a novel solution to high demand, low-budget travel accommodation in city-centres and inconveniently located campsites in city outskirts

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That's Called ChalkBot If you're one of the large number who follow the Tour de France every summer, you may have noticed massive, gorgeous printed messages on the route roads in the second stage this week. Nope, they're not paint--they're made of chalk, and they're sprayed on the road surface by ChalkBot, a massive trailer-mounted inkjet printer sponsored by Nike and the Livestrong foundation. You can even have it print your own message by texting the number in the video below. Check out how ChalkBot works by watching.
nike x livestrong youtube challkbot

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Hybrid Squared: Ingenious Energy-Generating Bike Rental System
A fleet of electric rental bikes that store the energy your peddle power produces, then when returned to the rental kiosk your power is returned to the citys smart grid sysstem. Yah

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More good reasons to switch and a heads up for those who already have

Mozilla acts fast, quashes first critical bug in Firefox 3.5...Update and notes here
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9135617/Mozilla_quashes_first_critical_bug_in_Firefox_3.5_beats_Microsoft_to_patch_punch?source=CTWNLE_nlt_dailyam_2009-07-17

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We’re thrilled to see designs that integrate a variety of renewable energy technologies into objects we encounter in everyday life. This innovative hybrid wind and solar powered street lamp is just such a solution - not only does it use renewable energy to provide light, it’s a stylish update to an everyday object that is capable of operating completely off-grid. The hybrid streetlamps consist of a solar array topped with a wind turbine, and they are capable of generating up to 380 W of power.

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