A team from MIT has unjust unveiled a new design for aircraft that has increased fuel efficiency, lower emissions, and the ability to take off on shorter runways. NASA commissioned this MIT team and others to design the aircraft with the intent of implementing the changes. Now, we won’t see these planes for quite a [...]

I didn’t know that Europe was building wind farms in the water.  If you don’t know, wind farms are collections of modern windmills that generate electricity through wind power. I live in Illinois, and wind farms are becoming more prevalent in the rural areas of the state.  I guess people over in Europe are building [...]

There was a new chair design introduced in Milan not too long ago from a Lebanese architect. It’s a regular chair but the seat has a layer of live grass. I remember being a kid and enjoying the feel of fresh green grass between my toes. I can also remember the harsh feeling of dead, [...]

This is a really cool idea, and it’s one that is fairly obvious to the point where you wonder why you didn’t think of it. This comes from the mind of a recent graduate of a design school. It’s an office desk that incorporates plants to create a cubicle atmoshpere. Not only does it provide [...]

This is interesting. In an attempt to live greener lives and lower costs, people are turning to a new form of modular housing known as shipping container housing. Those shipping containers you see on the back of semi-trucks? There’s a company in Phoenix starting to make homes out of those containers. They’re stacking and merging [...]

“Now why didn’t I think of that?” There’s a company in Florida that has come up with a new eliptical exercise machine. What makes this unique, though, is the fact that working out on this machine will actually generate electrical power. So, you burn some calories on the machine and simultaneously generate electricity to run [...]