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Wireless Water Meters in Effect in New York City!

by max on March 25th, 2009
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Here’s an interesting news that New York City will be implementing wireless water meters coupled with internet monitoring capability, which will allow New York citizens to know “exactly” how much water they are using and only pay for how much they’ve used. I have to agree traditional water meters have not been too accurate plus manpower required to check those ...

Greener New Years Ball for New York in 2009!

by max on December 26th, 2008
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New York City will not only be pedal-powering their New Years ball, the ball itself is about 10-20% more energy efficient over last year’s ball. I am beginning to like New York City’s efforts in greening stuff, sorta like San Francisco. On the side note, my favorite trance DJ Tiesto will be at New York, too bad I will be in San Fran. PHILIPS LIGHTING provided the new solid ...

New Years in New York will be Powered by Pedals!

by max on December 26th, 2008
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(Image Credit) New Years event in New York City Times Square “next” year, will be powered in part by pedals by humans. How cool is that? Save earth. Duracell has set up a “power lodge” in Times Square where visitors are ushered to a row of bicycles with generators connected to a set of massive batteries. So far the project has collected 95 hours of pedal power, ...

Human Powered Mobile River Gyms for New York!

by max on July 23rd, 2008
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Here’s a really cool mobile gym concept that might actually be a good idea for most metropolitan cities with rivers. It’s a human-powered mobile river gym, all powered by people exercising in it. What if you took every single calorie generated by people working out in New York City and put it to use like this? You’d probably have a really great public transport ...

DIY Duck Cam is a walking Polaroid Camera!

by max on July 3rd, 2008
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Check out this Duck Cam, a walking Polaroid camera that captures pictures and prints them out for ya. video after the jump. Therefore I am making a ‘Magical Image Digesting Duck’, by hacking digital camera, printer, vacuum cleaner, mp3 player and connecting them by a single microcontroller. The duck, Charlie travels to many tourists spots in New York City. The duck takes a ...

New York City Waterfalls!

by max on June 25th, 2008
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Cool, New York City is going bonkers with waterfalls, even one on a bridge! Public Art Fund, working in partnership with Tishman Construction Corporation, engaged a team of almost 200 design, engineering and construction professionals to build the Waterfalls, which are constructed with building elements that are ubiquitous throughout New York. Actual construction scaffolding forms the b ...