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    The Living Light Sculpture

    GreenSun Solar Panels Come in Crayola-like Array

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    S. Cafe Shirts Are Made From Coffee Grounds

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    Image of Gordonium Gordonium
    11/02/09

    In reply to The Living Light Sculpture
    It's gorgeous, and bizarrely informative (or informatively bizarre?)... but what the hell is its purpose? The Living Light article just calls it a "project". Best I can come up with is art installation to keep people thinking about how they're impacting their local air quality? It's also good for long-term data collection, I guess.

    Seems kinda silly as a daily warning system. People normally have shit to do in certain neighborhoods, so they can't just say, "Oh, air quality's bad in that area today, I guess I won't go," or, "Hey, air quality's bitchin' uptown, think I'll check that out!" Weekends would be another matter, I guess. #livinglight
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    Image of Jaredu Jaredu
    11/02/09

    In reply to The Living Light Sculpture
    That is pretty amazing. I'd love to have something similar to this just hanging in my room, not for this purpose, but it looks like something out of stargate XD

    If anyone would like to let me know how to do the laser etching and such to make glass light up like that, please let me know, DIY FTW! :D #livinglight
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    Image of The Lab The Lab
    11/02/09

    @Jaredu: I'm gonna guess (and not RTFA) that the glass is simply acid etched. The glass panels are then made to light up like that by putting LEDs on the edge of the glass. #livinglight
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    Image of Gann Gann
    11/02/09

    @Jaredu: [www.wootenmetal.com]

    They can laser etch any vector or raster image into anything from plate steel to blue jeans. They can also do glass. Oh, and if anyone is interested they told me they can probably do iPhones (I was specifically asking about first gen, not sure how the plastic would hold up).

    After you etch the glass, just end-light it with a LED strip.
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    Image of OCEntertainment OCEntertainment
    09/17/09

    In reply to GreenSun Solar Panels Come in Crayola-like Array
    "The stained glass industry could be due for a big boon."

    ....You know how folks get all excited when there's a turn of the millennium, or a certain comet passes by? You know one of those "this is a once-in-several-lifetimes event" kinda things?

    There need to be days to recognize sentences like this the same way.
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    Image of Torley Torley
    09/17/09

    In reply to GreenSun Solar Panels Come in Crayola-like Array
    Beautiful tones. If only more colors were effective — combine to make a spectrum. :) I'd be fond of green + pink. An entire rainbow would appear like Daft Punk/James White of SignalNoise.
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    Image of deanbmmv deanbmmv
    09/17/09

    In reply to GreenSun Solar Panels Come in Crayola-like Array
    I'm sure I've used them to make a toothbrush holder out of at school...
    In fact I'd love to get a few panels of these n have a tweak about with them, could make something very pretty compared to the current black one.
    Also surely if they each only absorb part of the spectrum if you lay them on top of each other they'll get most of the spectrum? Or is my colour theory off today?
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    Image of FriarNurgle FriarNurgle
    09/17/09

    In reply to GreenSun Solar Panels Come in Crayola-like Array
    Taste the rainbow... ZAP!!!
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    09/17/09

    @FriarNurgle: It tastes like burning.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    09/14/09

    In reply to Clock Celebrates Your Excessive Energy Use on the Hour
    I'm all for Kryptonian installation art. Heck I can turn a blind eye to some weirdo's crystal fortress in the North Pole, but I'm so sick of their novelty items.
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    Image of EBone EBone
    09/14/09

    In reply to Clock Celebrates Your Excessive Energy Use on the Hour
    Can I outfit it with an audio component so it makes a great sucking sound when I flip on the hot tub?
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    Image of london-rhino london-rhino
    09/14/09

    In reply to Clock Celebrates Your Excessive Energy Use on the Hour
    Why?
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    Image of Barry99705 Barry99705
    09/14/09

    @london-rhino: It's for the Prius drivers.
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    Image of anon anon
    09/14/09

    In reply to Clock Celebrates Your Excessive Energy Use on the Hour
    Now THAT is absolute genius. That's an example of a design that is elegant, attractive, and value-added. Unlike the stupid rolling FM radio concept. Adding an SD card to log usage would be nice so you could analyze it later on your PC.
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    Image of Barry99705 Barry99705
    09/14/09

    @craighyatt: "Your dual octocore with the 1500watt power supply rocking a 5 disk raid array running windows 7 with dual 32" displays powered by three nvidia cards running sli, to analyze your power usage."

    Fixed that for you... ;)
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    Image of anon anon
    09/14/09

    @Barry99705: ha ha ha. true. i meant to say "upload to your HP calculator".
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    Image of Thorax707 Thorax707
    09/14/09

    In reply to Clock Celebrates Your Excessive Energy Use on the Hour
    Can you adjust the sensitivity or something. As long as you can keep cranking up the display sensitivity you should still be able to get a pretty show even though you've cut your overall dead dino usage.

    The nut kicking clock is all fail-y since most girls don't have nuts.
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    Image of dingus dingus
    09/14/09

    @Thorax707: It should keep rescaling the plot so no matter how good you're getting at saving energy it still shames you into saving more.

    Inevitably this will lead to becoming that guy who only runs the heater when it gets cold enough to freeze the pipes inside his house, and insists that his kids charge their gadgets at school.
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    Image of Curves Curves
    07/07/09

    In reply to S. Cafe Shirts Are Made From Coffee Grounds
    I am curious at how color fast this material is. I would worry SOME coffee properties would remain and its very staining. I dont want coffee spots all over the laundry. (They should make this into a robe, what better thing to smell like coffee.)
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    Image of Voyou_Charmant Voyou_Charmant
    07/07/09

    @Curves: Seriously?


    1) Almost certainly the product is not going to smell like coffee.


    2) They have processed the grounds so much that they have managed to make yarn out of it, then into sheets of fabric, dyed and then stitched into clothing. The dyes used after the process should be more of a concern and no more than any other article of clothing.

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    Image of Voyou_Charmant Voyou_Charmant
    07/07/09

    In reply to S. Cafe Shirts Are Made From Coffee Grounds
    Once upon a time this sort of innovation was done here in the United States.


    Now a lot of people here can't even afford the shirts that are literally made of someone's trash.

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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_RockinLabCoat GitEmSteveDave_RockinLabCoat
    07/07/09

    In reply to S. Cafe Shirts Are Made From Coffee Grounds
    Also, since they make yarn out of this, will their slogan be "Good till the last drop...stitch"?
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_RockinLabCoat GitEmSteveDave_RockinLabCoat
    07/07/09

    In reply to S. Cafe Shirts Are Made From Coffee Grounds
    I think Dunkin' Donuts is already using this tech, as their coffee tastes like it's filtered through an old t-shirt.
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    07/07/09

    @CameraShoe_GitEmSteveDave: I know, right? And they used to have the best coffee around.


    Quit screwing up your coffee DD!


    (I don't really believe they will read this, but it's worth a shot.)

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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_RockinLabCoat GitEmSteveDave_RockinLabCoat
    07/07/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: After being lambasted on Consumerist, I believe the official abbreviation is "Dn'D".
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    07/07/09

    @TheyCallMeStacey_GitEmSteveDave: That's too complicated. Screw Consumerist.


    Fight the power (that fights the power)!

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