A well known 18 year old graffiti artist that goes by the name “Skullphone” has expanded his repertoire of vandalism to include 10 digital billboards around L.A. Earlier this week, onlookers were treated to Skullphones’s calling card in between the normal ads running on the display. Nice work dude, let’s hope that the police and the folks at ClearChannel appreciate art. [Skullphone and Curbed L.A. via Textually and Supertouch]
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Did you know that i can has, along with Jones Soda, is having a LOLCat contest? It’s funny, but true! Anyone can enter. Come up with a good LOLCat and submit it. Whoever gets the most epic lulz will has their LOLCat macro pasted on bottles of Jones Soda across the country. That’s so awesome. […]
Did you know that i can has, along with Jones Soda, is having a LOLCat contest? It’s funny, but true! Anyone can enter. Come up with a good LOLCat and submit it. Whoever gets the most epic lulz will has their LOLCat macro pasted on bottles of Jones Soda across the country.
That’s so awesome. If you’ve never had Jones, I suggest giving it a try. And it’s not just the hometown Seattle pride talking. Jones uses cane sugar instead of high-fructose corn syrup, which most scienticians concur is made of the blood of Satan himself and isn’t good for you.
You’ve LOLed Peter Ha, now LOL a cat and win!
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This week at TreeHugger: Everybody adores kites, right? Even high-sea commercial cargo ships, especially with fuel savings of up to $2000/day. GE has figured out a way to print out OLEDs like paper. A mechanical dinosaur sat on a pile of coal in Germany, and Solaria figured out a way to make cheaper and more efficient solar panels using the very exotic material… plastic.
The Beluga Skysails is a cargo ship that was used to test a new system that uses kites to harness the power of the wind as auxiliary propulsion. It set sail (literally) to Venezuela from Germany on January 22nd and reached the Norway on March 13th after traveling a total of 11,952 nautical miles. “In even moderate winds, the first flights of an initial 160-square-meter towing kite was able to alternative for 20% of the engineís power.” After the pilot phase, the towing kite will be replaced by one that is twice the size, providing twice as much energy and saving twice the fuel (which could mean $2000/day).
“Researchers have long dreamed of making OLEDs using a newspaper-printing like roll-to-roll process,” said Anil Duggal, manager of GEís Advanced Technology Program in Organic Electronics. “Now weíve shown that it is possible. Commercial applications in lighting require low manufacturing costs, and this demonstration is a major milestone on our way to developing low cost OLED lighting devices.”
Greenpeace activists marched in front of the offices of Vatenfall in Hamburg, installing a dinosaur on top of a pile of coal to emphasize the point declared on their banners: “Stop dinosaur technology”. The dinosaur of rusted steel towered 5 meters (16 feet) over a 3 ton pile of coal which was dumped, under cover of darkness, in front of the entry to Vatenfall employee parking.
The type of silicon used in photovoltaic panels is expensive, and as long as supply is constrained, the price of electricity produced by solar panels won’t be as cheap as it could be. Solaria’s solar panels produce about 90% of a conventional solar panel’s power, while using half as much silicon by cutting the silicon into thin strips and using clear molded plastic to collects light from the entire panel and funnels it to the strips of silicon. Clever.
TreeHugger’s EcoModo column appears each Tuesday on Gizmodo.
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Plextor has just announced a couple of new Blu-ray drives that also read HD DVDs, clearly designed for the poor saps who made the wrong choice in the format war. At first it might seem like an OK choice for people with a HD DVD collection quickly growing obsolete, but for $500 for a read-only drive or $600 for a burner, maybe a better idea would be to just get a straight-up Blu-ray drive and consider your HD DVD losses an early adopter tax. [Product Page via Electronista]
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In the words of the Conchords, a team of Canadian students just wanted to do something special for the lay-deez of the world. And so they came up with the Ladybag concept. It’s a smart bag that uses RFID technology to ensure that you leave the home with those three staples you need in the modern world: mobile; keys; and wallet.
Developed by a team at Canada’s Simon Fraser University, the bag, which uses RFID technology, also has LED icons on the side, which illuminate when the bag is missing an object, while a smiley emoticon lights up when you’re ready to go. I think they left off the lipstick icon, though. [Ladybag via Talk2MyShirt]
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