Month: July 2006

Web based sun dial

A digital sun dial – “The sun.dial is an internet-based installation project that fosters a sense of shared global space and time. The principle system consists of twelve LCD displays suspended from an overhead apparatus in an outward-facing ring. This circular display is the hub of a world-wide input system. Each screen displays the information […]

Battery-powered plane

Battery-powered plane

This plane is powered by 160 “Oxyride” AA batteries, I didn’t realize this was a first but its seems to be – “The world’s first one-seater dry-battery powered aircraft soars in the air, while students of the Tokyo Institute of Technology follow it, at the Honda Aiport in Okegawa city, Saitama prefecture, north of Tokyo.” […]