New Morph Seating Concept Will Make Travel More Comfortable

We all are somewhat dissatisfied with the seating arrangements on public transport. A new concept for seating will hopefully help change how people feel about seating arrangements. This particular seating grants freedom to passengers in order to choose how much room they need. The concept has been presented by a British design firm, SeymourPowell, and is known as Morph seating concept. The Morph seating concept will help shift the paradigm from foam...

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New British Airways Billboards Point At Flying Airplanes In Real Time

Advertising’s main purpose is to attract customers and to make them remember a particular product. There are different marketing campaigns which are run in order to achieve this. For instance, you can compare the marketing campaigns of Coca Cola and Pepsi. The key idea, once again, is to come up with a strategy which gains popularity amongst the customers and this is reflected, eventually, in the sales of the product being advertised. Today we shall...

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Bus Stops Redesigned

Not many know about the small Austrian market town of Krumbach. It is a humble town with not much to attract tourists. Recently, however, the town has gained popularity due to the presence of seven architects who were invited to present their own modern takes on the conventional bus stop.Architects from China, Japan, Russia, Spain, Norway, Belgium and Chile were invited by the local association of “kultur kumbrach”. The designs by seven architects...

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Molten Salts Could Improve Fuel Economy

(ISNS) – An emerging class of engine lubricants with a radically different chemical makeup could significantly improve the fuel economy of cars, according to a recent report from researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee and General Motors.These new molecules, called ionic lubricants, could someday be used as additives to the base oil used in motor oil. The compounds would form only a small fraction of the chemicals in re-engineered...

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Typhoon Haiyan Aftermath: How Technology Can Help

The Water Shelter, designed by Robert Nightingale Studio, incorporates a water-collection system with protection from the elements, and is designed to be air-dropped into disaster zonesIn the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, aid workers are stymied by overwhelming obstacles: lack of fuel for relief vehicles, near-total absence of food, water and shelter, and social chaos on an apocalyptic scale.The tropical cyclone packed sustained...

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Lab-Made Heart Represents 'Moonshot' for 3D Printing

An ambitious 3D-printed heart project aims to make a natural organ replacement for patients possible within a decade. But the researcher heading the "moonshot" effort also believes 3D-printing technology must harness the self-organizing power of biology to get the job done.The idea of a 3D-printed heart grown from a patient's own fat stem cells comes from Stuart Williams, executive and scientific director of the Cardiovascular Innovation Institute...

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3D Printing Aims to Deliver Organs on Demand

A group at the German Fraunhofer Institute has created blood vessels, by printing artificial biological molecules with a 3D inkjet printer and zapping them into shape with a laserDying patients could someday receive a 3D-printed organ made from their own cells rather than wait on long lists for the short supply of organ transplants. Such a futuristic dream remains far from reality, but university labs and private companies have already taken the...

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