Algae-Powered Transport Truck

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This is a vehicle, for the world, to transport goods around the world, with a lot less pollution! Sounds great, doesn’t it? It’s able to drive on the road, get aboard some train tracks, travel really far (on ALGAE fuel cells!), get off the tracks, and go to where it needs to be! Fun, yes?

This particular vehicle also brings into light the GPS tracking system as mapped unto railroads (which will of course become standard once all cars are rail-efficient).

The flexibility of the road and the environmentally sound capabilities of rail travel. And it transports one of those HUGE storage containers, too!

This is Chiron…

Designer: Benjamin Cselley, Jupin Ghanbari, Jessica Covi, Erol Kursani

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Da Balloon Light

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Tis a variable volume lamp, the variable volume lamp you’ve always wanted! Aïssa Logerot inflates the lighting business with this thing called the “Lampad'air.” It’s an inflating lamp on a tiny tube with an inflating device attached. The light is intense. When the lamp inflates, the triangles move away from one another. When the triangles move apart, the light that can escape from the lamp increases! Wacky.

What’s really wacky is the fact that this balloon lamp does not float… unless you modify the air pump to include helium. Another OFFICIAL thing I should mention, (ie this is really real,) is that the air pump includes a program that allows the lamp autonomous fluctuation of its volume.

Oh my goodness.

That will go very well for that lady there, who is very obviously drinking absinthe. Very very thick and non-watered down in the least… absinthe.

This particular model was realized with Matthew Marino, who is definitely the dude to see if you want to roll with new interactive designers in Paris.

Designer: Aïssa+Logerot

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âTikk, tikk⦠tekk!â The Special Sound Of Measure

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No more approximations, not even if you're blind. A reassuring sound of "Tikk, tikk… tekk", two fingers and some Braille embossed cylinders, mix them up and you got yourself the Tikk-Tekk Rainbow! It's a low-cost universal measuring tool that uses a string (ranging from 1cm to 100 cm) wrapped within the casing, and is extended between the finger tips. Kinda like how you use your hands to gesture an estimated distance; only Tikk-Tekk gives you the exact numbers.

Designers: Guopeng Liang & Yun Li

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Resize My Photos Batch Resizes Photos Quickly [Downloads]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/rmuUGE9ePTU/resize-my-photos-batch-resizes-photos-quickly

Windows only: Sometimes you just want to quickly resize photos without retouching or cropping. Resize My Photos aims to do just that—and quickly.

Once installed, Resize My Photos adds an entry to your right-click context menu when you click on any single photo or multiple photo selection. Once you fire it up, you can add/remove files, add/remove directories, and change options—resize method, naming method, image quality, and output directory. Choose your preferences, click start, and Resize My Photos quickly takes care of the rest.

Resize My Photos is freeware, Windows only.

Resize My Photos

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Gadgets Available Today [Now Available]

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MSI's C-Series notebooks are getting an upgrade with the new CX600, CX700, CR600-017 and CR700 models. The 600 models are fairly light at 5.4 pounds, the 700 models are slightly beefier tipping the scales at a bit over 6 pounds.

Both the 600 and 700 models have 16:9 widescreens with 16" and 17" displays respectively. The CX600 and CX700 notebooks both contain the ATI Mobility Radeon HD4330 discrete graphics card while the CR600 and CR700 models pack NVIDIA's GeForce 8200M GPU. Folks looking to future proof their purchase can opt for the CR600-017 which boasts an ungraded processor and a Blu-Ray drive, the new C-Series notebooks start at $549.99. [I4U and Hot Hardware]

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