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3D-printed sand Microclimates to cool public places

The lack of cooling in large open areas inevitably sends people scurrying for air-conditioned buildings on hot days. Taking a leaf from traditional Islamic architecture that dealt with the harsh desert climate with Mashrabiyas – a projecting latticework window that provides shade from the hot sun while allowing cool air from the street to flow through – London-based design firm PostlerFeruson has designed a kind of three dimensional Mashrabiya that can cool the immediate area in an energy-free way...
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Acrylic Bending Machine

Giorgos Lazaridis from PCB Heaven has made a DIY Acrylic Bending Machine. It uses a high power lamp to heat the acrylic from underneath, in about 3 minutes the acrylic is soft and can be bent into any shape you like. The area that the acrylic lays is made out of aluminum and is kept cool with circulated water so that the heating is very focused.

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New Stuff In Evernote Beta: Shared And Stacked Notebooks

The guys at Evernote have just unveiled some new goodies in Evernote 2.0 Beta for Mac.

First up is sharing, and this includes some sweet new features. You can share any notebook, either with named individuals or with the entire world. These public notebooks have a URL (which you can keep to yourself, or tell the world – and search engines – about), and an RSS feed.

If you use Evernote Premium, you can allow others to edit those public notes, as well as view them.

Another new feature is stacking, which borrows slightly from iOS. Evernote users have long been calling for ways to organize large collections of notebooks. If you like to compartmentalize everything you note down, and you have dozens of different notebooks in your database, the sidebar can soon get a little messy.

Stacks, then, are folders for notebooks. Just drag one notebook on top of another to create a new stack (iOS style), and have as many stacks as you wish.

One detail I really like: each computer you use Evernote on remembers which stacks you’ve left open. So you can keep your “work” stack open on your work computer, and your “fun” stack open on your home iMac, and so on. Nice touch.

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Gift Guide: Apple iPad, the No Brainer Tablet for 2010

It's rare that a gadget feels as transformative as the iPad. With its recent iOS 4.2 update, which essentially brings the device up to speed with the iPhone/iPod interface, the iPad finally feels like the tablet we wanted from the beginning. The addition of the multi-tasking and folders functions is huge, and, if you've got an AppleTV, AirPlay should prove to be a nice way to seamlessly experience your videos and music on the big screen (and on real speakers). There are now tons of great apps available, and pairing Apple's own productivity suite (Pages, Numbers, and Keynote) with a Bluetooth keyboard can even turn the 'Pad into a usable work machine in a pinch. Battery life is great (roughly 10 hours), and it's become our platform of choice for watching videos on YouTube, Hulu Plus, Netflix and Vimeo, as well as for checking RSS feeds (with our favorite app, Reeder), scanning the New York Times, and much more. It won't replace your laptop anytime soon, but it will begin to feel like an essential part of your digital life very, very quickly.



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Price: $499 - $829

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