工研院研發新產品紙喇叭，不但耗電量低，而且音質還非常好，打敗國際大廠，獲得美國年度科技創新獎。MP3一接上 接頭，音樂就從喇叭流洩而出，不過這個喇叭很不一樣，扁扁的形狀，從側面看幾乎跟厚紙板一樣薄，這是工研院最新研發的產品，神奇的喇叭上面有許多小孔，其 實就是超微小喇叭，整張紙喇叭，比50元硬幣厚度還要薄，而且非常軟，不管怎麼折、怎麼捲都可以，聲音完全不失真，還獲得了華爾街日報的年度科技創新獎！
這款可以彎曲的超薄音響喇叭，在比賽中可是打敗了惠普、摩托羅拉等大廠，未來準備技術轉移，進行量產，可以當壁紙，也能放在安全帽裡聽音樂，成為另外一個台灣之光。
RidetheCity.com is a service that maps the best bike routes in New York. You add a starting point and an end point and the service finds dedicated bike lanes, greenways, and other "safe" routes for you to take on your two-wheeler through the mean streets of the city.
We've just been given permission to let you folks beat up their latest incarnation, RidetheCity 2.0 with a few interesting updates. Co-creator Jordan Anderson reports:
- Much faster routing and overall performance
- Better looking maps
- SMS support
- Sort of wonky, but workable multi-language support
- Better info. about bike shops and rentals
The new service uses CloudMade Web Maps Lite tiles for a far prettier interface and it seems snappy as heck. The map is considerably nicer to look at and the sharing system is great - you can send an SMS message with your directions to your phone for orienteering on the go.
There's even a bonus for Brooklyn-based readers: RidetheCity is having a launch party on Saturday at Radegast at 113 N 3rd Street in Wiliamsburg, Brooklyn from 2pm until 6pm. They'll be giving out RidetheCity schwag and one lucky person will win a Bicycle Habitat gift card.
The new site will go live tonight but feel free to test it on their sexy beta server until then. They even have a widget for those so inclined.
For convenience sake, Greener Gadget Top 50 Semi-Finalist Laundry POD, designed by RKS Design Team, combines the salad spinner and the laundry machine, creating a new way to clean our clothes while saving energy at the same time!
While re-engineering and re-designing a salad spinner, we learned resourceful women were buying salad spinners to wash their delicates. This sparked the idea that the salad spinner technology we innovated could be used to create a portable, hand-powered laundry machine that would be far more appropriate for the task, than a salad spinner. The Laundry POD combines innovation and eco-conscious style to save energy, water and answer the need for a quick, easy, eco-friendly way to do small loads.
Like this design? Wanna vote for it or leave a comment? Check out this entry or the entire Greener Gadgets TOP 50 Gallery and help determine the TOP 10 for live judging at the upcoming Greener Gadgets Conference.
