Items of Interest

Brick Toaster Industrial Battery

Rondo Energy are developing a 98% efficient brick toaster battery for industrial use, made from clay and sand, that can store heat up to 1,500 degrees Celsius. If the company's planned roll out over the next 15 years materialises, it would reduce global emissions by 15%!

Environment

Innovation

Tech

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How QR Codes Work

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Dan Hollick posted a great explainer on how QR codes are constructed and how information is encoded within them.

Tech

Web Dev

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Have I Been Trained?

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Have I Been Trained is a tool that you can use to search a range of image databases that are used in machine learning training.

AI & ML

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WikiHouse

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WikiHouse is an open-source house design using precision cut, responsibly-grown wood, that can be assembled without traditional construction skills.

Design

Environment

Innovation

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Drone Over Everest

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In association with 8Kraw, DJI flew a Mavic 3 over Mount Everest, and recorded a video for all of us to watch!

Video

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The Peter Principle

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Check out this great video (with super graphics) from the BBC Archives of an interview with Dr Laurence J. Peter, who coined the Peter Principle. I did not know it was meant to be expressed as satire while describing a very real phenomenon.

Business

Video

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Piano Chords

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PianoChords.io is a great online reference tool to learn chords on the piano.

Data Vis

Music

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Cleanup Pictures

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Cleanup Pictures is a free online tool that allows you to remove items from images, as if by magic!

Design

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Sustainability of Food & Energy Production

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Hannah Richie wrote a great piece for Works In Progress on some natural assumptions and contradictions we have when thinking about the environmental sustainability of food and energy production. Did you know that the production of chocolate causes almost as much land use change as beef farming, or that energy production from coal causes 613 times as many deaths as nuclear power?

Data Vis

Environment