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    This reinvented shower head uses 70% less water

    Prototypes are being tested at Apple, Google, and Stanford University. When you think about it, there’s not a whole lot separating one shower head from another. Sure, they can vary in flow from high pressure – which feels like painful, ...
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    Futuristic water-recycling shower cuts bills by over $1,000

     In space, astronauts go for years without a fresh supply of water. Floating in a capsule in outer space they wash and drink from the same continuously recycled source. So why, asked Swedish industrial designer Mehrdad Mahdjoubi, do we not ...
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    9 Materials That Will Change the Future of Manufacturing

    Researchers are developing cutting-edge foams, coatings, metals and other substances to make our homes, vehicles and gadgets more energy efficient and environmentally friendly BIO-INSPIRED PLASTIC: Light enough to permit flight and thin enough to accommodate flexibility and strong enough to ...
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    How to design hotels for wellness tourism

    The needs of hotel guests are ever evolving, and the hospitality industry continues to adapt to meet their demands. Today’s travelers are exceedingly focused on healthy living and expect to maintain their wellness lifestyle when traveling. Wellness isn’t just the ...
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    Lamp runs for 8 hours on one glass of water and some salt

    Lighting is something that we take for granted in the developed world, but there are still many areas around the globe where people lack reliable access to light at night. They often use kerosene lamps, which contribute to indoor pollution ...
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    Why Ergonomics & Wellness are a Powerful Match

    Workplace ergonomics and wellness programs have historically operated independently of each other, separated into different departments within the same company. The workplace ergonomics process is typically managed by the Health & Safety team (who hopefully has a close partnership with ...
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    Doing Well and Doing Good with the Green Air Hotel

    You don’t win the Radical Innovation Award without proposing to change an entire industry through design. Lip Chiong, principal of Studio Twist, won because his Green Air Hotels may revolutionize how the Chinese hospitality industry works and breathes. Chiong saw ...
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    Solar-powered smart watering system for intelligent irrigation

    The latest Internet of Things (IoT) entry into the lawn and garden market offers an automated and app-controlled watering system to “deliver the perfect drink” to your plants. Over the last year or so, we’ve been seeing a whole slew ...
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    built out of flat-pack cross-laminated timber

    There are so many things to love about wood construction. Wood is a renewable resource; it sequesters carbon; It’s looks so darn good. Even in a simple, utilitarian agricultural warehouse building like this one on Holme Lacy campus of Herefordshire ...