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Inhabitat’s Week in Green: LED lights, biofuel airplanes, as well as medication tattoos
The Week in Green is the brand-new object from the friends at Inhabitat, recapping a week’s many engaging immature developments as well as clean tech headlines for us.
This week Inhabitat saw a light as we showcased an array of exciting developments in energy-efficient enlightenment. First off, Philips dazzled attendees during this year’s Lightfair expo as they unveiled the EnduraLED — a world’s initial LED replacement for those ubiquitous energy-sucking 60 watt illuminated bulbs. We were additionally excited to see a phenomenon of a SolPix – a hulk appetite generating LED wall that doubles as solar shade as well as can be commissioned as high-tech building cladding. And if you consider energy-efficient lighting isn’t easy upon a eyes, check out this pleasing LED flowering plant that soaks up object during a day as well as blooms during night.
We additionally looked during several incredible (and violent unconventional modes of travel – for starters, how about an electric zip-line trek that shoots you through city streets? We were also impressed by a Cell, the shape-shifting electric vehicle concept which comes finish with the own car-sharing transit system. And if mountainous through a skies is some-more your character, check out these self-sufficient airships which strap solar energy to generate biofuel.
Wearable tech saw multiform developments as good – this week you looked at a ultra-efficient 3d printers which combined Iron Man’s suit of armor. In alternative headlines, your subsequent outing to a alloy could merit some-more than the single shot in a arm – researchers are developing the brand-new sort of “medication” tattoo which keeps tabs on glucose levels regulating infra-red ink.
Finally, you saw multiform conspicuous inventions that mount to change how you fight climate shift and erect the built surroundings. This week Bill Gates denounced skeleton to deposit in the growth of a fleet of seawater-spraying obscurity machines which could fight meridian shift by creating sunlight-reflecting clouds, and you looked at the new sort of biologically crafted section which can be “grown” from the multiple of silt, germ, as well as urine.