Posted on 28 September 2011 by Sustainability Digest
Image: Screenshot via PhoneStory.org
A game called Phone Story, released this week, is designed to allow players to see the dark sides of the technologies we use everyday—from coltan mining in central Africa to high <a href="http://www.forbes.com/2010/05/28/foxconn-apple-suicides-china-opinions-columnists-gordon-…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Posted on 07 September 2011 by Sustainability Digest
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We’ve been hearing about some airlines switching all their inflight paper documents, from maps to manuals, onto iPads in an effort to save paper and weight. Now, the NFL is following suit. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have handed out iPads to each of the team’s 90 players instead of hefty playbooks. …Read the full story on TreeHugger
Posted on 19 August 2011 by Sustainability Digest
All Images Courtesy of Chris Woebken
If you’ve ever seen a colony of bats on the move and wondered what they’re up to, this is the billboard for you. The “Bat Billboard,” a collaboration of designer Chris Woebken and artist Natalie Jeremijenko, is a design that will not only house bats, but that will translate their calls and tell us humans what’s going on….Read the full story on TreeHugger
Posted on 12 August 2011 by Sustainability Digest
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The idea of designing a drone after the maple seed has been around for awhile. But finally, researchers have made it happen. DARPA’s maple seed-inspired drone has taken flight, and can be remote controlled to fly around the room, even do vertical take-offs, while spinning just like a maple seed. …Read the full story on TreeHugger
Posted on 21 July 2011 by Sustainability Digest
A spherical robot equipped with a camera may navigate underground pipes of a nuclear reactor by propelling itself with an internal network of valves and pumps. Image: Harry Asada/d’Arbeloff Laboratory
According to a recent study released in June, about 75% of the US’s nuclear reactors have sprung a leak in the past, often with a result of contaminating groundwater. The little ball pictured above could be one of many let loose in underground pipes at nuclear r…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Posted on 21 July 2011 by Sustainability Digest
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MIT’s SENSEable City Lab has come up with the Backtalk project to find out more about what happens to gadgets when consumers are done with them. They’ve turned their research into art, and it is now on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. But you can get a peek at the project — and at the crazy mapping of old gadgets — in this video. …Read the full story on TreeHugger
Posted on 08 July 2011 by Sustainability Digest
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Traveling to new cities can be an enriching and wonderful experience, but it can also take a toll on the environment. Choosing a hotel based on its sustainable credibility can get expensive, and guilt on your green conscience can put a real cramp in your style. So what to do? Couch surf? Camp? Why do either, when you can crash in an uber high-tech, energy-producing rooftop pod? Introducing the Living Roof, one of the cooler-looking but least necessary designs to come along in a while.
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Posted on 28 June 2011 by Sustainability Digest
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The switch from paper books to digital books for classrooms has been on the way for a couple years now. It is university classrooms that have been getting most of the attention, however, K-12 classrooms are now getting more play from publishers. McGraw-Hill launched its first digital-only texbook on Monday. …Read the full story on TreeHugger
Posted on 05 May 2011 by Sustainability Digest
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Nielsen has a new report out showing that television ownership has dropped for the first time in 20 years. There are a few guesses at why this is the case, even in our TV-obsessed country, and it just might mean not only a shift in how we watch media but also on which gadgets we consume our favorite shows. …Read the full story on TreeHugger
Posted on 19 April 2011 by Sustainability Digest
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Japan is still reeling from the nuclear radiation issues following the record-setting earthquake experienced last month. To help, one collective has come up with an interesting device — a portable Geiger counter that docks with an iPhone. By calling your iPhone, you can listen to the familiar clicks that tell just how much radiation is present in a particular area. …Read the full story on TreeHugger
