Researchers at Nationwide Children’s Hospital’s The Research Institute, in partnership with Ohio State University, have created a prototype spray bottle for household cleaning products that they say is child-resistant. Its two-stage trigger mechanism will discourage young children from using these spray bottles, mainly because they lack the developed ability to use them in the sequential order necessary. Also, young children’s hand size and strength simply aren’t capable of activating this. The trigger mechanism will return to a locked state after…

When we lounge around the house, various items start to migrate to our little “nests”. The mainstay for most of us is the couch. This is the resting place for laptops, phones, books, cups, glasses, pens, and the list goes on and on. After a while your living room starts to look like a dragon’s horde. While it wasn’t intended to happen, things can get cluttered pretty quickly.

Israeli start-up company b-Solar has created a double-sided photovoltaic that they say can boast energy yields up to 50 percent. Introduced at Intersolar Europe in Germany in June, these innovative bifacial solar cells utilize a black surface field of boron instead of traditional aluminum. This creates an open rear face where the cells can collect reflected and diffused sunlight and makes the front cell panels more efficient. The new cells deliver 10-30% higher energy (KWH) per KWp when installed in…

  Summer is great, because there’s so much you can do. Hiking, swimming, camping, you name it. Unfortunately, with summer comes the heart. There are plenty of ways to keep cool while you’re awake, but if you’re like me, your body turns into a small furnace when you go to sleep. Fans and central air can only do so much, but that only gets the area above your covers. Wouldn’t it be great if you could cool the mattress underneath…

While I can’t say I’ve had the pleasure of shaving my face in the shower (as I don’t have an extensive amount of facial hair), I’ve heard that this is a prime place for men to deal with this sort of grooming. However, it would be wise to have a sort of reflective surface to see what you’re doing with a razor so close to your face. A big issue would be condensation, as a steamy shower is definitely going…

SolarReserve, a Santa Monica-based company, has announced progress on its latest solar / molten salt project – the Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project. This 110 MW solar thermal power plant is located near Tonopah, Nevada. The beauty of utilizing salt with solar energy is that it increases the amount of time that solar energy can be stored – up to 10 hours each day. This will make it the longest full-load storage capacity for a solar plant. The technology has…

You have achieved the perfect date. Excellent food, fancy clothes, beautiful music playing in the background, and now you want to top it off with a boat ride. Instead of wowing your date with such a romantic display, you watch them go from bored to uninterested as you struggle to move the oars, and can’t seem to get the boat to go in the right direction.