Icelanders Einar and Agust Agustssohn have come up with a great new idea for personal and portable energy generation – small-scale wind turbines that can be used to power all sorts of gadgets from smartphones to cameras to tablets while also being able to lower domestic energy costs at home.
Boeing has filed a patent that entails the conversion of noise being generated by aircraft during landings and takeoffs into electricity. Commercial aircraft jet engines create noise at 140db and this is other than the noise of wheels when the plane lands and the noise made due to friction with air. Chin Toh, a company employee, was the one who came up with the idea to harvest electricity from all this acoustic energy that usually goes to waste.
Long gone are the days in which quad copters and other drones were supposed to be nothing more than surveillance robots as they are being put to more and more unconventional uses.
By growing up in India, Anirudh Sharma knows just how bad air pollution is for the environment and that is why he invented the Kaala-Printer contraption. It is basically a printer that uses ink made from air pollution. Anirudh Sharma is a graduate of the Fluid Interfaces Group at MIT Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he worked on Augmented Reality/2D/3D using transparent OLED displays.
The Delta Flume will officially be the world’s largest artificial wave generator by October 5th. Located at the Deltares Research Institute, Netherlands, the wave generator is a massive concrete tank boasting some 300 meters in length, 9.5 meters in depth and 5 meters in width.
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