
A look at Time’s Top 50 Best Inventions of 2009.

At the top of list is NASA with their Ares rockets. Deemed by Time Magazine to be the best invention to come out of 2009, this revolutionary rocket rectifies many of the shortcomings ...
Public Bikes To Power City Lights
Normally I try to avoid posting on concepts mainly because they rarely materialize into real world products, no matter how much we wish they would. But this following concept isn’t just a great idea, it has great potential as well. In a nutshell, designer Chiyu Chen envisions a fleet of publicly available hybrid bicycles that passively harvest the kinetic energy of braking (definitely unlike that generator-light that doubles the power needed to turn the damn pedal). When a bike is returned to a station ...
The Power Pump from Orange
When it comes to protecting Mother Earth, we take a fair share of our energy from the sphere in the sky. While that’s all well and good, there are certain circumstance where standing in the sun for hours or leaving you gadgets out in direct sunlight just isn’t feasible. Enter the Power Pump from Orange. In what essentially amounts to an inflatable ...


During times of economic uncertainty people dramatically rework their lives. They do less driving, less dinning, less traveling. In fact, simply said, people tend to leave the house less. In turn, other activities go up, such as videogames which some have heralded as recession proof though recent layoffs at major developers suggest otherwise. Another upswing is in the amount of television and movies consumed. It’s far cheaper to sit at home and watch the boobtube then it is to go out for dinner and a movie. ...


You'd think by the year 2009 auto companies would be on board with at least the principle tenements of the green movement and yet, in spite of consumer demand, 'The Big Three' have essentially crippled an already destabilized economy by continuing to produce gas-guzzlers and energy wasters. But while all the furor and scrutiny is being laid square on the North American manufacturers, another major player is slipping under the radar. But first, a little context.
By federal mandate, automakers ...

There are few things incumbent upon the media to report. Large disasters. Paris Hilton. The Large Hadron Collider (though that one may fall under the first category). And ‘Net Neutrality’. So when the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission makes an open call for suggestions on how or if the internet should be policed, it’s important we give a listen and voice the opinions of those that would shape the medium. So when Quebecor Media (an ISP, among other things) said there are no reasonable grounds “to support regulation ...