Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Blog Commentary: Week 9





Chinese architect Gary Chang makes the best use of of a 344 sq. ft. apartment in Hong Kong. Recommended for anyone living in a tight space. Granted you have the money to make the same sort of adjustments.



Stoplight with a Timer?


"Eko Stoplight" concept design by Damjan Stankovic. His description below:

The way a person becomes smart is to store in their brain only the information that they have to know, dismissing the rest. If it’s written down, I don’t need to know it. That’s what Albert Einstein would have you believe. But not Damjan Stanković. In an ideal Damjan Stanković world, you’d know how long you were at that stoplight because it would tell you what it’s up to. Tell me what you’re up to, stoplight!

Don’t hold back your secrets, you stoplight you! I would love to know how much time I have before I am able to race to the next copy of you. I want to know how much time I have so I can hurry up and stop again!

Truly.

Stanković promotes this stoplight as an eco solution in the following ways: If you’ve got the amount of time you’ve got to stop in front of you, you can shut your engine off, wait, be calm, and turn it back on again when the time is almost up. This not only lessens the amount of gas you use sitting still, but it lessens the amount of crazy madness you have wondering if the stoplight is stuck, or just really, really long.

Definitely a good idea, though I don't know if anybody should be turning off their car waiting for a green light. Unless somebody finds a way to take care of the texting / make up / other distractions behind the wheel issue as well.

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