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Future Car Platform

The Future Car - Skateboard
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One Week's Worth of Food Around the World

One Week's Worth of Food Around Our Planet

Here's something that I came across which I thought was very poignant. One week's worth of food from around the world. The pictures say it all:

Japan: The Ukita family of Kodaira City Food expenditure for one week: 37,699 Yen or $317.25

Italy: The Manzo family of Sicily Food expenditure for one week: 214.36 Euros or $260.11 Favorite foods: fish, pasta with ragu, hot dogs, frozen fish sticks

Germany: The Melander family of Bargteheide Food expenditure for one week: 375.39 Euros or $500.07

United States: The Revis family of North Carolina Food expenditure for one week: $341.98 Favorite foods: spaghetti, potatoes, sesame chicken

Mexico: The Casales family of Cuernavaca Food expenditure for one week: 1,862.78 Mexican Pesos or $189.09 Favorite foods: pizza, crab, pasta, chicken

Poland: The Sobczynscy family of Konstancin-Jeziorna Food expenditure for one week: 582.48 Zlotys or $151.27 Family recipe: Pig's knuckles with carrots, celery and parsnips

Egypt: The Ahmed family of Cairo Food expenditure for one week: 387.85 Egyptian Pounds or $68.53 Family recipe: Okra and mutton

Ecuador: The Ayme family of Tingo Food expenditure for one week : $31.55 Family recipe : Potato soup with cabbage

Bhutan: The Namgay family of Shingkhey Village Food expenditure for one week: 224.93 ngultrum or $5.03 Family recipe: Mushroom, cheese and pork

Kuwait: The Al Haggan family of Kuwait City Food expenditure for one week: 63.63 dinar or $221.45
Family recipe: Chicken biryani with basmati rice

China: The Dong family of Beijing Food expenditure for one week: 1,233.76 Yuan or $155.06
Favorite foods: fried shredded pork with sweet and sour sauce

United States: The Caven family of California Food expenditure for one week: $159.18
Favorite foods: beef stew, berry yogurt sundae, clam chowder, ice cream

Mongolia: The Batsuuri family of Ulaanbaatar Food expenditure for one week: 41,985.85 togrogs or $40.02 Family recipe: Mutton dumplings

Great Britain: The Bainton family of Cllingbourne Ducis Food expenditure for one week: 155.54 British Pounds or $253.15 Favorite foods: avocado, mayonnaise sandwich, prawn cocktail, chocolate fudge cake with cream

Chad: The Aboubakar family of Breidjing Camp Food expenditure for one week: 685 CFA Francs or $1.23 Favorite foods: soup with fresh sheep meat

Philips Design and Electric Tattoos.

http://blog.futurelab.net/2007/12/philips_design_talks_electric.html

Lovely Sketch of My Old Car

Wish I could sketch like this..

Generate Electricity Via Your Knees

Interesting that a hand crank requires 6 watts of human to generate 1 watt of electrical. Here is a solution:


http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/02/08/knee-brace-electricity-02.html

Wild Charge

http://www.wildcharge.com/

Great Way To Create a Persona

This allows you to find target markets by zip code or segments. It has a description of what magazines, income, cars, etc! A great resource for niche design

www.mybestsegments.com

52 Suburban Pioneers Suburban Pioneers represents one of the nation's eclectic lifestyles, a mix of young singles, recently divorced and single parents who have moved into older, inner-ring suburbs. They live in aging homes and garden-style apartment buildings, where the jobs are blue-collar and the money is tight. But what unites these residents--a diverse mix of whites, Hispanics and African-Americans--is a working-class sensibility and an appreciation for their off-the-beaten-track neighborhoods
Social Group: Inner Suburbs
Lifestage Group: Mainstream Families
2006 Statistics: US Households: 1,163,110 (1.04%) Median HH Income: $33,258 Lifestyle Traits Eat fast food Do needlepoint Baby Talk magazine King of the Hill in syndication Suzuki Verona

Demographics Traits:
Ethnic Diversity:	White, Black, Hispanic
Presence of Kids:	Family Mix
Age Ranges:	Age <55
Education Levels:	Some College
Employment Levels:	White Collar, Mix
Homeownership:	Homeowners
Urbanicity:	Suburban
Income:	Downscale
Income Producing Assets:	Moderate

http://www.claritas.com/MyBestSegments/Default.jsp?ID=0&SubID=&pageName=Home

Is this for real?

Photorealistic Renderings using Solidworks Models

SolidWorks is one of the main product design solid modellers. It has a built in render engine called PhotoWorks. With the release of PhotoWorks 2, rendering within SolidWorks has become more realistic and easier. In a lot of cases PhotoWorks will be the most convenient way to render your model, because you don't have to leave SolidWorks. However, sometimes you will find the need to make renders that are more realistic (or even photo-realistic), and PhotoWorks is not sufficient anymore. This is when you might consider using an external program for rendering. In this how-to, \will describe how to do this using Blender with YafRay.

Both programs are open-source software, which means you can download them for free:

• Blender (version 2.45)
• YafRay (version 0.0.9)

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Import_and_Render_a_SolidWorks_Model

The Most Beautiful Bottom Plate

Figure 1. The most beautiful bottom plate, not the upper.



just look at the gestalt in action. word.

Stockholm Sustainable Heat Source

Commuters' heat will warm up offices

Owners of Stockholm train station to tap into 250,000 bodies

STOCKHOLM - A Swedish state-owned firm has found a cheap, eco-friendly source of energy to warm one of its offices: body heat from a quarter million commuters steaming through Stockholm’s central train station.

Body heat already warms the station itself but the surplus, currently let out in thin air, will be redirected to provide as much as 15 percent of the heating in a planned 4,000 square meter office building, real estate firm Jernhusen said.

“We had a look at it and thought ‘We might actually be able to use this’,” said Karl Sundholm, project leader at Jernhusen, which also owns the station. “This feels good. Instead of just airing the leftover heat out we try to make use of it.”

Jernhusen markets the building as “environment smart” and aims for its energy consumption to be half of what a corresponding building usually is.

Video Body power Jan. 16: The body heat strategy is explained. NBC News Web Extra

The bodily warmth from the central station will be redirected to warm up water for heating. The investment will be around 200,000 Swedish crowns ($31,200), Sundholm said.

“The ventilator aggregates are already there, and even some of the pipes. All we need to do is complement with a few pumps and pipes.”