Recently in Paris I came across a transportation innovation for the local patrol men. These police officers were on Inlineskates. Fully equipped with all of their tools (cuffs, guns, waki-talki etc…) these patrol men were prepared to pursue on their skates. I have seen police before on Segways, and Bicycles, but this was the first [...]
Archive for September, 2007
green building
25Sep07Was just reading about some features of a Green building being put up by United Technologies and wanted to mention some of the noteworthy items:
-Wind power turbines and Solar panels
-Lawn on the roof which reduces surface temperatures by 70F and internal temperatures by 15F
-System to collect rain water
-Fuel cells to collect power generated from wind [...]
(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5)search engines
18Sep07I just wanted to write about a new search engine called Mahalo. Search technology seems to be one of major focus points of some new Web 2.0 firms gaining great attention from the blogs and VC’s. Generally, I use google for pretty much all my searches with the rare occasion using yahoo. Google doesn’t do [...]
(No Ratings Yet)social designs winners
06Sep07I just came across a listing of the 2007 designs to improve life and was blown away by these great social innovations. These awards recognize people who are trying to improve human life everywhere. I cut and paste my 2 favs below, which is a low cost foot prosthetic and a solar water bottle able [...]
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