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    Familiar Faces Could Help Robot Cars Win Trust

    Apple’s secretive project aimed at testing self-driving cars seems worlds apart from the tech giant’s usual business of smartphones and tablets. But the idea of a robotic “iCar” raises an intriguing possibility: What if self-driving cars were represented by virtual assistants ...
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    EWICON bladeless wind turbine generates electricity using charged water droplets

    Where most wind turbines generate electricity through mechanical energy, the EWICON (short for Electrostatic WInd energy CONvertor) creates potential energy with charged particles – in this case, water droplets. The current design consists of a steel frame holding a series ...
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    Solar-Powered Micro Homes

    The New ‘Ecocapsule’ Homes Make It Easy to Live Off the Grid. The new ‘Ecocapsule’ micro homes are the latest innovation in contemporary off-the-grid living. Designed by the Slovakian team ‘Nice Architects,’ the Ecocapsule offers a portable housing solution that ...
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    Forest Secluded Office Spaces

    This Forest in Madrid Has a Comforting Office Space for One Company This unique office space in Madrid has been designed within a forest outside the city. A Spanish architecture firm called Selgas Cano had developed this office by including ...
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    Energy-Saving Facades

    This Smart Facade Blocks Light When Exposed to Strong Sunlight Researchers from Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology have created a “smart facade” that offers better performance as well as energy savings. Developed as part of a ...
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    Egg-Shaped Mobile Workspaces

    The Mini Egg House is the Perfect Office for Those on-the-Go Office spaces can be cramped, and if you travel for a living there isn’t much opportunity for structure in your work environment, but with the Mini Egg House you ...
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    Spherical Glass Solar Energy Generator

    German architect André Broessel developed as a stand-alone power charger station for electro-mobility, the project uses the advantageous strategy of implementing a ball lens and specific geometrical structure to improve energy efficiency by 35% when compared to existing photo-voltaic panels. ...
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    Solar Fiber

    The idea behind Solar Fiber is a flexible photovoltaic fiber that converts sunlight energy into electrical energy.  We aim to develop this as a yarn that can be worked into all sorts of fabrics.  This “smart material” will be able ...
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    Wind shaped pavilion

    The wind shaped pavilion is a design proposal for a large fabric structure that can be used as a public or private pavillion. As a lightweight fabric structure, the wind slowly and randomly rotates each of the six segments around ...