I just recently completed my industrial design undergraduate thesis, and the design that I decided to explore combines two elegant sustainable technologies - airships and renewable electricity - and puts them to work on the oft-neglected (but increasingly significant) issue of disaster relief. Solarial ...
ecofriend.org
Lately the images and news from China earthquake has been disturbing me a lot. Feel so helpless when mankind is battered against viciousness element of nature. For such times some designers have come under one roof at the 2008 ACIDO Rocket Show. And here is one of the best entries in the "natural disaster categoryâ that won 1st place too. Andrew Leinonen has proposes Solarial , an unmanned airship that provides mobile support for disaster relief, generating renewable energy and supplying communication links where they are needed most.
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ecogeek.org
We've been reminded in recent weeks that the world is a vulnerable place. First as many as 100,000 killed in the cyclone in Burma, and now 12,000 feared dead after an earthquake in China. But as we've seen over and over again, sometimes disaster response is even more important than being prepared for the disaster.
How do you take care of hundreds of thousands of disaster refugees? It's not like you can plop down a coal power plant and fire it up wherever it's needed.
Or can you? Andrew Leinonen has put together a strong concept design for an airship covered in solar panels that can be flown into a disaster area, anchored in, and immediately begin to serve power to the rescue effort.
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rssfabriek.nl
At the spring arts ITP show the other day, designer Christian Cerrito had a demonstration which will have had bristlebot designers everywhere smacking their foreheads in a "My god, that's obvious!" manner. He used a big tray, a bunch of the simple and strangely lovable DIY bristlebots and a few gobs of paint and voilà : new artworks were created. There's even some science in there: the random walk of the bots is affected by the viscosity of the paint, so as the painting gets bigger, it gets more complex, in an interestingly chaotic manner.
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gizmonews.com
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