Heating our homes is a big deal. It’s where we use a lot of energy because no one likes to be cold. Since you can’t just move into a new, energy efficient home, we’ve got to figure out how to get the most from what we do have. Which is why scientists in the UK built a whole house in a lab called Energy House.
We all know what an 8-ball is: it answers your yes or no questions when you turn it around. It’s fun to play with friends and you can have it in a very big size.
There aren’t enough hours in the day and the amount of hours drops significantly when you have to pick up and drop off little ones. Not to mention juggling schedules and traffic is no cake walk either. Make life easier with HopSkipDrive, the Uber for young ones.
The technology behind solar cells is expensive. Not so much the production as some of the materials. In order to get that energy, some of the components that are used are precious materials. Researchers have created a iron molecule that can do the work just as well without the heavy cost burden.
Cleaning the toilet is not really a fun job. It’s not one that anyone wants to do but no one wants to go in a nasty toilet either. The future is now, you can outsource this job to a robot. Giddel is the tiny robot whose life is dedicated to cleaning your toilet.
Climate change, in case you were still not sure, is real and with it comes some pretty terrible weather that we’re all going to have to live through. Think this summer was awful? Well buckle up, they’re probably going to get worse according to a new study.
Two large grocery chains in Australia stopped supplying single use plastic bags in hopes that it would help reduce some of the plastic waste and it worked. There was an 80% drop in plastic bag consumption across the nation. It is hoped that this action will encourage other retailers to stop supplying them as well.
The light from our screens allow us to see easily but they’re also disrupting our sleep patterns. Bummer because we need sleep to like, live and stuff. But we also need our computers for like, so many things. Anyway, if you’re a late night computer user, don’t let screen light mess with you, try f.lux, the software that tones down your screen.
