SOFT Rocker by Professor Sheila Kennedy and architecture students from MIT
Developed for MIT’s Festival of Art Science Technology, the SOFT Rockers use enhanced fabrication techniques to curve flat wooden panels, and have solar panels installed to charge the gadgets of those who relax within (All images courtesy of Phil Seaton)
NO INK, NO PLUG, NO PROBLEM: The Tanning Printer is a solar powered printer that doesn’t use cartridges. Instead it uses the process of sun-tanning the paper
Designers: Hosung Jung, Junsang Kim, Seungin Lee & Yonggu Do
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video on Solar Roads!
What if the spiderweb of roadways that entangle us daily could be used to generate all of the energy we could possibly need…and then some? Scott Brusaw and his company, Solar Roadways, is on the way to making that dream a reality. Brusaw told YERT, “There are 25,000+ square miles of road surfaces, parking lots, and driveways in the lower 48 states. If we covered that with solar panels with just a 15% efficiency, we’d produce 3 times as more electricity than this country uses on an annual basis…and it’s almost enough to power the entire world.”
