Conceived by the Mexican internet company Terra, the campaign will help bring new Wi-Fi services to local parks and public meeting places. Many parks and areas in the United States now feature Wi-Fi, but the service has yet to become widespread in many areas around Mexico.

To encourage down owners to pick up the business, the Wi-Fi will be administered in timed increments based upon the amount of poop collected. The more poop, the longer free Wi-Fi time will be provided. The whole campaign is executed in a tongue-in-cheek witty fashion, but the incentive is both real, and enticing for park goers wishing to get online while relaxing in the sun. What’s more, the program helps clean up the parks that these very park goers will log online from.

To make the incentive even greater, Terra could convert the poop receptacles into methane digesters, and transform the piles of poop into usable energy for the park.

The incentive may be a publicity stunt by Terra, but it is an ingenious idea to get people to help clean up their parks that is ready to be taken to the next level.

On the ground this slim, aerodynamic, 3-wheeled vehicle has the comfort of a car with the agility of a motorcycle thanks to its patented, cutting-edge, ‘tilting’ system. It can be driven to the nearest airfield and take off just like any other airplane. The single rotor and propeller are unfolded to make the PAL-V ONE ready to fly.

When airborne, the PAL-V usually flies below 4,000 feet (1,200 m), the airspace available for uncontrolled Visual Flight Rules (VFR) traffic; so there will be no interference from commercial air traffic. Furthermore, the PAL-V is powered by a very robust, flight certified aircraft engine. It runs on gasoline. It can reach speeds of up to 180 km/h (112 mph) both on land and in the air.

The PAL-V ONE has a very short take off and landing capability, making it possible to land practically anywhere. When not using controlled airspace, you can take off without filing a flight plan. Flying a PAL-V is like a standard gyrocopter. It is quieter than helicopters due to the slower rotation of the main rotor. It takes off and lands with low speed, cannot stall, and is very easy to control. The gyroplane technology means that it can be steered and landed safely even if the engine fails, because the rotor keeps auto rotating.

permits showering using the ambience tuning technique while reclining. The application combines six water bars recessed into a broad shower field above a reclining space, along with an eTool as the main operating element. Just as with vertical shower, with horizontal shower the user can also choose from among a variety of pre-programmed choreographies, offering a range of settings for water temperature, intensity and quantity. The user can decide from among balancing, energizing or de-stressing effects.

Our inspiration comes from the opportunity of combining the highest quality of fabrics and materials with top wearability and 100% Made in Italy-manufacturing. A fresh and original idea that allows a Kiskin-Woman to play with irony while choosing which tattoo the sun should leave on her skin! Kiskin is made for women who are unconventional, who love to dress high quality products, who want to be free from the typical “impositions” of Fashion!”

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Talented artist makes extremely detailed replicas of famous masterpieces and then comes up with clever ways of destroying them.

Inspired by those living a dynamic and often low budget life, this cool modular shelter can be assembled and disassembled with little effort, and even be setup as a space within a space for some extra privacy. By turning the box tops inwards, the interior also finds itself lined with plenty of shelves and lit by the light peeking through the boxes.

First unveiled at Designblok06 back in 2006, BANA1N was a short-term structure housing different activities inside. More recently the tropical shelter made an appearance at a Czech design show as a ‘banana bar’ that served up banana milkshakes all throughout the night.

A1 hopes that people around the world will be inspired to use the Bana1n system in a free creative way — and off course recycle the cardboard once they are done!

This film is a part of an ongoing collaboration between Superflux and neuroscientist Dr. Patrick Degenaar, whose pioneering work in optogenetic retinal prostheses aims to bring back sight to the blind.

Unlike the implants and electrodes used to achieve bionic vision, this science modifies the human body genetically from within. First, a virus is used to infect the degenerate eye with a light-sensitive protein, altering the biological capabilities of the subject. Then, the new biological capabilities are augmented with wearable (opto)electronics, which, by mimicking the eye’s neural song, establish a direct optical link to the brain. It’s as if the virus gives the body ears to hear the song of the machine, allowing it to sing the world into being.