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Timex, in collaboration with Core77, held a global design competition called 2154: the future of time design. The above is one of winners.

“TX54 is a disposable timepiece that is worn on the user’s thumbnail. While its translucency makes it blend seamlessly with the hand, a selection of text color options and a glow feature that activates on command make it easy to read.

Friend: Timekeeping goes off the wrist and onto the fingernail. Let’s see, when I fly to Europe, I can keep New York time on my left hand and London on the right!

Moya: I thought this was a solid idea that was very personal and the design was well executed. The concept addressed the triumvirate of appearance, user interface, and technology. Better yet, it gives more than a passing nod to marketability.”

[Core77 / Timex]

This electic car can go from driving around on the street to riding on rails and back… It’s the car of ‘the future’ according to a Cincinatti tv station! We just need a network of fugly rails everywhere. By the way 1996 called and they want their html back.

[via auto blog green]

“MADRID (AFP) — US automaker General Motors said Tuesday it will equip the roof of its factory in Zaragoza in northeastern Spain with solar panels to create the world’s largest rooftop source of power from the sun.

The electricity produced by the 10 megawatt installation will be used by the plant, GM’s biggest in Europe, and also be sold to the local power grid, a company spokesman said.

“GM’s Zaragoza plant will become home to the biggest roof-top solar power station worldwide. This has significant potential to reduce costs at the plant,” GM Europe President Carl-Peter Forster said in a statement.

The company may install similar projects at GM Europe’s 11 other assembly and eight component plants depending on the results in Zaragoza, he added.

The installation will generate enough power annually to supply 4,600 households when it is completed at the end of September, the statement said.

It will comprise about 85,000 solar panels and cover about 2,000,000 square feet (183,000 square metres) of roof at the plant which assembles more than 480,000 vehicles a year for the European market.

GM currently has two of the largest solar power installations in the United States on the roofs of its Rancho Cucamonga and Fontana, California parts warehouses.

The company is due to install solar panels on its factory in Saint Petersburg, Russia next.

US firm Clairvoyant Energy and France’s Veolia Environment will build, own and operate the rooftop solar installation at Zaragoza.”

[AFP | photo by trochej | via physorg]

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A Bug and a Mechanism.

A Gear Chain with a Mite Approaching.

Mirror Mechanism with a Spider Mite. Spider mite with legs on a mirror drive assembly.

Drive Mechanism Dwarfed by Mite! The tiny gears are dwarfed by a spider mite.

Spider Mite on Mirror Assembly.

These images came from Sandia National Laboratories. According to their site this is what they’re all about:

Sandia is a world leader in the technology required for development, fabrication, and production of microelectronic, photonic, micromachine and microsensor devices and products.

Sandia also has the ability to integrate these devices into complete microsystems. Microsystems that sense, think, act, communicate and self-power will make our nation more secure, revolutionize our industries, and will make the revolution in biology a reality.

Distinguishing strengths include materials growth and development, device and product design, fabrication technologies for silicon and compound semiconductor devices, advanced packaging technologies, reliability, failure analysis and product delivery for extreme environments.

[Sandia National Laboratories]

[Wired has an interview with the man behind the Image Fulgurator | See previous post for video]

[Concept by Ozkan Coral via ecofriend]

“The Image Fulgurator is a device for physically manipulating photographs. It intervenes when a photo is being taken, without the photographer being able to detect anything. The manipulation is only visible on the photo afterwards.”

“In principle, the Fulgurator can be used anywhere where there is another camera nearby that is being used with a flash. It operates via a kind of reactive flash projection that enables an image to be projected on an object exactly at the moment when someone else is photographing it. The intervention is unobtrusive because it takes only a few milliseconds. Every photo another photographer takes of an object at which the Fulgurator is also aimed is affected by the manipulation. Hence visual information can be smuggled unnoticed into the images of others.”

[Julius von Bismarck is the creator and his site has all the juicy details. via chase jarvis]

[PingMag]