Forget vacuums, Dyson is going to start making electric cars
Dyson had made a name for itself by inventing all sorts of new approaches to vacuuming your house, and now it seems that the company is looking to innovate in a whole new “clean” industry. This week, founder James Dyson announced that his company is making a major play in the electric car Read More...
This startup offers home buyers a down payment in exchange for Airbnb income
One of the biggest obstacles to home ownership is saving up enough money for a down payment. Buying with a low down payment doesn’t help either because it increases the amount these buyers need to borrow, raising their monthly mortgage payments and making home ownership even more of a stretch. A Read More...
Brazil backtracks on plan to open up Amazon forest to mining
Amazon conservation groups have hailed a victory as the Brazilian government announced a U-turn on plans to open up swaths of the world’s biggest forest to mining corporations. President Michel Temer had sparked outrage in August when he announced a decree to abolish the Renca reserve, an area Read More...
How universal basic income could transform capitalism
It has been said that it's easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism. That might have been true a decade ago, but today, the end of capitalism is becoming more and more plausible — at times it feels Read More...
Boeing is hosting competition to build the world’s first personal flying machine
Strap in. Boeing is sponsoring the GoFly competition, which aims to create the first personal flying device with vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) Read More...
This beautiful A/C system works without electricity
A new terracotta device can turn hot air into a cool breeze, pushing temperatures inside a room from over 107 Fahrenheit down to 97. According to its creator—Monish Siripurapu, founder of the Indian architectural firm Ant Studio—it works using hundreds of terracotta cones, wind, water Read More...
Peer-to-peer renewable energy markets are the future
To overcome the inconsistencies of renewable energy, we must make sure our energy systems utilize energy more efficiently. And the best way to do that is through peer-to-peer energy markets. In such a market, multiple residential solar panel systems can be connected to move excess energy from one Read More...
Cheese without the dairy: How chefs are producing cheeses that vegans can eat
With an aftertaste compared to pencil erasers or Play-Doh, vegan cheese has never stood a chance to the real thing. That was, until now. A new generation of vegan chefs and food entrepreneurs has figured out what was missing: fermentation. Using traditional techniques, tastier plant-based cheeses Read More...
This new material is made from 100 percent recycled landfill waste
A designer has found a way to turn landfill waste into “Plasma Rock”—an innovative material that can be used to create eco-friendly consumer goods. The durable rock is the result of plasma gasification—a process that heats landfill materials at extremely high temperatures. The rock is Read More...
Could computational modeling solve what’s to come in the post-antibiotic era?
Ever since penicillin was accidentally discovered in 1928, numerous antibiotics have been created that have spared millions of lives from immeasurable suffering around the globe. The only problem is bacteria has a knack for developing resistance against antibiotics, and now we have entered an era Read More...