Solar magnification is already one secret to super-efficient green power. And now, Yuji Ohya, an engineering professor from Japan's Kyushu University, thinks that a similar trick could be pulled off with wind power.
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Artist Ross Racine’s immaculate landscapes of surburbia make the Stepford Wives look like dumpy hippies.
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Musicians have toyed around with music based on the human heart for decades, but we've never seen anything quite as ornate and mind-blowing as the Heart Chamber Orchestra.
In the chaotic days after of World War I, London imparted order on the city by doing something no one had done successfully before: It branded the hell out of the Tube.
Why does the world need another reusable water bottle? According to Chris Hotell, the owner and co-founder of Alex, "People want to use them. But they're such a pain in the ass to clean that they end up drinking bottled water."
He's got a point: Over time, even the best reusable water bottles start to stink, because of how hard they are to clean. That means people stop using them and buy another--which is extraordinarily wasteful--or they stop using refillable bottles altogether.
Branding, like you see in ads on TV and the Internet, won't work on mobile phones--the displays are simply too small, and the user's attention too focused, for a tiny brand banner to sink into the consciousness. Yet mobile phones are the future of media. Ads, therefore, have to be far more targeted, context aware, and easy to understand.
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