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Innovation
Fast, Sleek... Electric?
Nov 28th, 2012 | By Aubrey Yee
Check out some of the latest designs in electric sports cars to hit the road and the race track. These electric cars save on gas but they don't skimp on sex appeal.
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Smart Highways of the Future
Nov 16th, 2012 | By Aubrey Yee
Studio Roosegaarde wants to create a highway that glows at night, gives you a weather report and charges your electric vehicle... and they're ready to build it as early as next year.
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Making Gasoline Appear From Thin Air
Nov 2nd, 2012 | By Nicole Rogers
British scientists have successfully produced just over a gallon of gasoline using carbon dioxide from the air and hydrogen from water. Air Fuel Synthesis, the company behind the process, hopes that within two years it will build a larger, commercial-scale plant capable of producing a ton of petrol a day. The global energy implications of literally extracting carbon dioxide from the air to make gasoline are considerable.
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Protean Electric wants your wheels to power your car...
Oct 31st, 2012 | By Aubrey Yee
Protean Electric claims to have a new system that will change how the engine in an electric vehicle works. The technology to power your car might someday be in your wheels...
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Real Time Farms
Oct 26th, 2012 | By Nicole Rogers
Real Time Farms makes it easy to eat local and make informed decisions about where your food comes from. It is a crowdsourced national food guide that helps users find certain foods grown or made in their area, and to add sources if they are lacking.
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Innovation
Weeding robots
Sep 26th, 2012 | By Aubrey Yee
Blue River Technology has created a weeding robot that could help to keep millions of pounds of herbicides out of the environment and out of our food.
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A $9 bicycle made from cardboard
Aug 24th, 2012 | By Aubrey Yee
Imagine a $9 bicycle made from recycled cardboard! This is not a dream, but inventory Izhar Gafni's reality. After three years of persistent and tireless trial and error, the Israeli inventor has created a cardboard bicycle that withstands the elements, looks really cool and will help make biking financially accessible to millions more people worldwide. In the effort to reduce oil consumption, pioneers like Gafni are at the forefront of important and inspiring innovation.
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WikiCells Edible Packaging
Jul 22nd, 2012 | By Aubrey Yee
Imagine if after eating your ice cream, you could eat the package that it came in. Might sound like fantasy, but thanks to Harvard Professor David Edwards, this idea has now become reality. It's a bold and innovative move towards eliminating plastic and paper in packaging using the principles of biomimicry, a practice that looks to models, systems and elements in nature to create solutions to human problems.
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GMOs that prevent cancer
Jul 17th, 2012 | By Aubrey Yee
The debate over GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms) rages on with ballot initiatives this election year addressing the issue of proper labeling on food products containing GMOs, and a new batch of superweeds that are resistant to the herbicides used on GMO crops plaguing farmers across the country.
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Will Manmade Bugs Save Us?
Jul 8th, 2012 | By Aubrey Yee
Craig Venter is not your usual scientist. He's attractive and stylish, rides fast motorcycles and sails around the world. He's self diagnosed himself with ADHD, but this fact combined with his healthy ego may be the very reason he has gone so far in his field. He sets ambitious and seemingly impossible goals like mapping the human genome, which he did faster than anyone expected, and then he achieves them.
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