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amtrak has a new website!

trip from washington to sacramento will still take 74 hours but will only cost $250.

For three weeks, the U.S. Department of Energy will host the Solar Decathlon — a competition in which 20 teams of college and university students compete to design, build, and operate the most attractive, effective, and energy-efficient solar-powered house.

All within walking distance of work.

http://www.solardecathlon.org

Honda EV-N Concept

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staff:

SmarterCities launched last week as a platform to submit your ideas for local change. It’s an enthusiastic and valuable idea, and it was a pleasure working with the smart folks at IBM to get this project on its feet.

this website is an ad.

an addicting ad.

Proposal to build a neighborhood on disused section of SF Bay Bridge 

via hippieflavor: benjaminpalmer: davereed 

Wired Magazine asks five leading designers to propose new designs for Craigslist.  SimpleScott’s version, pictured above — it’s usable, beautiful, and includes mobile views.

slantback:davidkaneda:

Biegert & Funk clock.

via

“Reading Lamp” Shuts off when you place a book on top of it; turns back on when the book is removed.

by Jun Yasumoto, Alban Le Henry, Olivier Pigasse and Vincent Vandenbrouck.

via:via

seen this weekend…

LEGO Architecture. Now available: the guggenheim

For a toy that is destined to be disassembled and merged into the ever growing multi-color lego mega-pyramid, $40 seems a bit much.

(This was at least the fate of my space ships, space shuttles, space stations, space robots, and the occasional pirate ship).

Dollar ReDe$ign Project

chartier: Maniacal Rage

davereed:

hippieflavor:

“Montrealers are the lucky first recipients of a bunch of Bixi, North America’s first large-scale bicycle-sharing system, and boy are those bikes sexy. They’re computer-chip based, solar-powered, WiFi-enabled and have an old-school shape that’s easily recognizable. They also have LED head and taillights and a bell!

We’ve got 3,000 of these bikes set up between 300 downtown bike stations. It works like this: swipe your credit card in the pay station, ride off on your bike, return it to one of the 300 stations around town.”

from Bixi bicycles in Montrea | Addictive DJ Designs via lighterfootstep

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chartier:

Intel has a neat new ad that, if you opt to click on it, displays a vision of the New York Times as it might look in 2040.

tlow:

Housed in biodegradable plastic, the artificial soil provides nourishment and moisture to the seed; till it grows out to be a strong enough plant to sustain itself. As the sapling matures, the plastic capsule melts away, leaving behind a brand new generation. (via Seedbomb Plant Capsules by Hwang Jin wook, Jeon You ho, Han Kuk il & Kim Ji myung » Yanko Design)