If successfully integrated, a new electricity alternative will help one in five people around the world—that’s 20 percent of the earth’s population. It’s called GravityLight, and it essentially works in harmony with the earth’s tow, eliminating the use of kerosene…
Innovation
Scientists may have just found the key to reversing the aging process
BY: NATHANIEL ASTUDILLO What if there was a pill you could take that extended your life by ten, twenty, fifty years? We have a whole discipline devoted to that, actually. A life-extending pill might sound like science fiction but by…
This company invented a system that converts food waste into energy
BY: KATE SLOAN In this age of climate change, pollution and food crises, there’s a growing desperation to find working solutions. But a Seattle-based company thinks their new invention “changes everything.” Impact Bioenergy is a team of designers, engineers and…
Entrepreneurs are turning fish guts into fertilizer, fishmeal and fashion accessories.
BY: NATHANIEL ASTUDILLO Fish guts. They smell terrible, look gross and have that slimy texture that makes you consider cutting off your hand after having touched them. How then, are several entrepreneurs making money off of this stuff? The answer…
This Bronx teacher has changed the lives of inner-city kids by helping them grow their own food
By: JACK M. Stephen Ritz is a school teacher and administrator in one of America’s toughest and poorest districts – New York’s South Bronx. He teaches science, and his home base is one of the most troubled schools within…
This 20 year old created an app that’s already saved thousands of pounds of food waste.
BY: ADRIAN SMITH As a high school freshman, Maria Rose Belding found it difficult to watch the director of the local soup pantry she volunteered at in Iowa struggle to find a home for the 10,000 boxes of macaroni and…
This guy is turning old coffee grounds into biofuel and eliminating CO2 emissions
BY: ALEXANDRIA LEE Now you can use coffee to keep both yourself and your home warm and thriving during these cold winter months. A 24-year-old entrepreneur has invented a way to use waste coffee grounds as biofuel. Arthur Kay is…
Doctors are prescribing free health food instead of pills so people can afford to stay healthy
BY: ALEX BROWN The main problem with health food is not a deep-seated mistrust of broccoli carried over from childhood, but rather the exorbitant prices, which make it difficult for most to subscribe to a healthy diet. A new program…
How a perfectly circular bridge in Uruguay makes a point
BY: CAROLINE ROLF About 1000 cars can now cross the lagoon between the cities of Rocha and Maldonado on the southern coast of Uruguay everyday. But instead of racing from point A to point B, as we so often fall…
The future of urban living is an extraordinary ecological city
BY: CAROLINE ROLF The growing demand for energy plays a remarkable part in the way we live in communities around the world. Until about 30 years ago, energy sustainability was only considered in terms of availability relative to the rate…
Video games can test your intelligence, but can they make you smarter?
BY: KATE SLOAN Some people say video games rot your brain, while some say they quicken your reflexes and beef up your problem-solving power. But it’s possible the truth is somewhere in between. New data show that while video games…
Headsets and avatars could render real life intimacy obsolete
BY: CAROLINE ROLF (Pictures NSFW) Just what we need, another reason to stay inside and avoid any interaction with the human variety. That’s not to say we won’t be experiencing emotions or affection, but the definition of intimacy has definitely…
GM just released a surf-van that will revolutionize surf and freedom-culture vehicles forever
BY: ALEX BROWN There are few vehicles that could fill the void of the discontinued Volkswagen hippy bus, or the old-school stylings of the Holden Sandman. Unsurprisingly, a German company, Opel, has stepped up to the plate to try and…
This new drone lets people fly without a pilot
BY: ALEX BROWN A few days before the Ehang 184 hit the internet like a storm, I was having a conversation with a few friends about the insanity of modern innovation and what the future may hold, specifically, in the…
This student uses his new drone to hunt down illegal miners and loggers in the Amazon Rainforest
BY: ALEX BROWN The lungs of the earth are deteriorating under the heat of illegal industry, claiming approximately 80,000 acres of rainforest per day—or about a football field, per second, per day. Between the ranks of illegal loggers, miners and…
Sex bloggers are taking a stand against a new lube that claims to protect users from STIs
BY: KATE SLOAN A lubricant company got itself into a slippery situation earlier this month, when its sensationalist claims about its product caught the attention of some intrepid sex bloggers. Lube-makers, I Believed After Using It, allege on their website…
New test tube-grown leather might save the environment, animals and your fashion sense
BY: ALEX BROWN Cutting down on leather production is necessary on many levels, and if not for animal rights purposes, or to trim environmental degradation, perhaps the simple and immediate benefits of new “test tube” leather will persuade many against…
This DIY mealworm growing kit reduces your carbon footprint while improving your health
BY: ALEX BROWN On the surface mealworms seem like a more appropriate dish for Fear Factor than the family dinner table—most people don’t give it the breadth of thought it deserves. After all, it’s tough to say what arouses more…
This incredible new form of renewable energy is like your childhood potato-clock on steroids
BY: ALEX BROWN The old potato-clock trick has more or less become a viable form of renewable energy. A company named Plant-e is heading the initiative, which introduces it as alternative to wind, hydro and solar power. But unlike the…
Solar-powered balloons are overcoming the biggest obstacle to a solar energy revolution
BY: SWIKAR OLI A French researcher has a novel idea to improve the efficiency of solar panels by placing them atop hot air balloons and letting them fly. The idea was born because solar power, the probable successor to coal…