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  • Flykly smart wheel makes any bike electric and web enabled

    FlyKly’s Smart Wheel lets any bike go electric and get connected Devindra Hardawar, venturebeat.com Tick­ets On Sale Now For­get those clunky elec­tric bike con­ver­sion kits — Fly­K­ly’s new Smart Wheel is a sim­ple (and stealthy) way to add some juice to your exist­ing bike. The New York City start­up, orig­i­nal­ly known for its cheap… http://flip.it/jseqV…

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  • Littlbug camp stove

    This Camp Stove Collapses Thinner Than the Bark Used as Kindling Andrew Liszewski, gizmodo.com When you’re heading out into nature with nothing but a backpack, the long hike ahead of you is going to be far more enjoyable if you pack as light and minimally as possible. But that doesn’t mean you have to completely…

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  • DIY high tech compost bin

    Is this the magic compost bin of your dreams? Holly Richmond, grist.org We know: $70 is A LOT of money to spend on something to hold your apple cores. Especially when a plastic bucket works just fine. (For that price, it should also make you dinner … and wash the dishes afterwards.) But the CompoKeeper…

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  • New Yorkers exposed to more pesticides than rural residents

    New Yorkers exposed to more pesticides than rural residents John Upton, grist.org ShutterstockNew Yorkers can eat all the organics that they want — but that won’t be enough to protect them from the Big Apple’s stubborn pesticide problem.Despite living in a dense city with only tiny patches of agriculture (much of it organic,… http://flip.it/inoiQ Related…

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  • Go sun portable solar oven

    GoSun: Portable solar oven cooks food in as little as 10 minutes – Images gizmag.com http://flip.it/h5dvj Related articles Be Cool: Make the World’s Easiest Solar Oven (sierraclub.typepad.com) Prepare a Cardboard Box Solar Oven (outdoorcookingandgardening.wordpress.com) Typhoon Haiyan: How Technology Can Help (livescience.com) Solar ovens and solar cooking (makezine.com)

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  • Nest builds social, data driven CO detector

    Like The Evolution Of Apple’s iPod And iPhone, Nest Is Building One Product At A Time Aaron Tilley, forbes.com Today Nest offi­cial­ly unveiled the fol­low up to its pop­u­lar learn­ing ther­mo­stat with a smoke and car­bon monox­ide detec­tor called the “Nest Pro­tect.” Get­ting a look at it in per­son, co-founder and VP of engi­neer­ing Matt…

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  • Build your own tropospheric gas detector

    Tropospheric Gas Detector Jake Spurlock, makezine.com Make: Projects Build a Tro­pos­pher­ic Gas Detec­tor with two gas sen­sors. By using the MQ-2 and MQ-6 togeth­er, you can obtain accu­rate ground-level air pol­lu­tion data. By Cat­e­go­ry: Arduino Time Required: 15 min­utes Dif­fi­cul­t… http://flip.it/BVILM Related articles This 13-year-old Maker teaches MIT alumni (atmelcorporation.wordpress.com) Why Predictive Analytics Is Important…

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  • Mobile pop up shops transform unused, industrial wastelands

    Mobile Pop-Up Shop Kit Transforms Vacant Storefronts Into Instant Community Hubs inhabitat.com An eclec­tic team of archi­tects, design­ers, urban plan­ners and film­mak­ers are giv­ing new life to vacant store­fronts on the Lower East Side with their ready-made kit of fur­nish­ings stored in a … http://flip.it/tJzAZ Related articles What Tech Hasn’t Learned From Urban Planning (nytimes.com)

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  • Freeze your clothes

    Stop Wasting Water Washing Dirty Jeans…Freeze Them! ecouterre.com Photo by dun­char­ris Turn those blue jeans green—or at least main­tain their deep indi­go hue—by putting them on ice, lit­er­al­ly. Employed by denim enthu­si­asts to pre­vent pre­ma­ture fad­ing, the … http://flip.it/V1L1b

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  • Anthropological perspectives on why dieting is a waste of time

    Daniel Lieberman: ‘Dieting is a disaster for everyone’ Interview by Ian Tucker, theguardian.com Harvard’s professor of human evolutionary biology explains why obesity is the major 21st-century problem – and why we are ill-equipped to deal with it Daniel Lieberman is a professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard and has published… http://flip.it/F9R8p Related articles Making…

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  • The efficiency of your city, ranked and rated

    How Efficient Is Your City? America’s 34 Largest Towns Get Ranked thinkprogress.org CREDIT: National Geographic / Gregory KushmerekEven the U.S. cities that have gone the furthest in building energy efficiency still have a lot of ground they could cover, according to a new report. Boston, Massachusetts — the report’s highest-scor… http://flip.it/tQvi2

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  • The duck chalet

    The Duck Chalet Kent Griswold, tinyhouseblog.com My husband, Jeff, and I wanted to share our latest summer side-project that is now for sale – the Duck Chalet! It stemmed from our love for small, intuitively designed, and cost effective dwellings.We are both green home designers and builders her… http://flip.it/FEJnw

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