On TreeHugger , it ’s shark workweek ! Check out technologies inspired by the big fish , and an galvanising gadget to keep swimmers safe from them . Also , fish scales plow into plastic , techie solutions for designing a garden , Space Station architect design a trailer and more !
1.Shark Week and Biomimicry : Four Futuristic Technologies Inspired By Sharks
scientist are studying them ever more nearly and are finding many ways in which these prehistoric fish can urge on futurist technology , from their skin to the way they feed .
2.New Software Developed to Recognize Monkey Faces
Now , thanks to a new facial - recognition software package being developed , soon computer may be capable to key primate mugs much in the same agency current technology can spot human faces , allowing primatologists to more accurately gauge the wellness of the world ’s most menace primate .
3.Shark Week : Electronic Shark Shield to avail Keep Swimmer Safe During Record - Setting Attempt
Ocean bather Diana Nyad want to be sure to avoid any potential takings with shark , and so will be wear a new “ shark buckler ” designed to keep the raptorial fish at bay during a record - setting swimming .
4.Sungevity ’s Solar Popsicle Truck Promises More than Just a Cool Treat
Sungevity is showing consumers that they can cool down on the cheap by campaign popsicles in a biodiesel solar powered ice pop truck , while at the same time reminding them that solar power is no longer out of their financial reach .
5.The First Solar Powered Town ? Residents Push for 30 % Renewables by 2015 ( telecasting )
As solar panels start out appearing on rooftop across Wadebridge , a politics afterthought on large - scale solar puts some of the larger planned residential area - owned mogul installations at risk .
6.Space Station Architect Designs Out Of This World Trailer
Wanting to cantonment with his kids in a small more puff than a tent , Garrett Finney combined his “ NASA experience with his beloved of the ground ” to design the Cricket , “ an innovative jackanapes , compact , and flexible minuscule environment in which to travel and explore the worldly concern we inhabit in . ”
7.7 High - technical school Online Gardening Tools to Plan the Perfect Garden
These seven on-line garden planners facilitate you pull together the perfect plot of ground while offering confidential information on spacing , planting metre , and harvesting yields . register through to find the one that ’s right for you — and start planning for next year .
8.Composting Kitty Litter with a Cat Poop Portal
It ’s been a challenge in the past , but two innovative cat owners have fall up with a clever room to work jackpot litter into the compost pile .
9.Recycled Clothes & Resin For Funky Furniture By Tobias Juretzek
German designer Tobias Juretzek combines reuse clothing with resin to make his unique and stout “ Rememberme ” chair , each with its own history to tell .
10.Designer Creates Plastic from Fish scale
Designer Erik de Laurens has arrive up with a novel naked as a jaybird material for make plastic — fish shell .
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