Cool and Gorgeous Perpetual Mechanical Watch Costs Nearly $600,000

Image via Hodinkee This is one of the first watches I’ve ever seen that made me almost want to wear a watch. Well, until I saw the price tag. Yet despite that, it has some great design principles we love, including using solar and perpetual motion to keep the battery charged as well as being crafted for quality and longevity.

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Cool and Gorgeous Perpetual Mechanical Watch Costs Nearly $600,000

High-Efficiency Hydraulic Hybrid Car Could Get 170 MPG

INGOCAR is a developmental concept for a 5 passenger car with a hydraulic drive system in place of a conventional powertrian. With the weight reduction this offers and other efficiencies in the systems, the designers say their vehicle could get 170 mpg.

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Student-Built Eco Car Gets 2,752 MPG

Photo courtesy of Shell Mechanical engineering students from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo (my alma mater) have developed an eco supercar that gets 2,752 MPG! I never get tired of stories like these. As the car industry trips over itself trying to tap the fuel-efficient vehicle market, they end up getting pwned by a group of kids. And they been doing it since 2005! This car isn’t some “complicated” hybrid or electric vehicle…it is 100-percent battery free

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Cool Spokeless Bike Prototype by Yale Mechanical Engineering Students

Well, The Rear Wheel is Spokeless…

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Driving an American-Built Electric Car

Advanced Mechanical Products (AMP) wasn’t on the show floor in Detroit at this year’s North American International Auto Show, but a few of the company’s representatives brought the company’s X Prize competition entry vehicle to Detroit.

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Driving an American-Built Electric Car

Mango Glut Overloads Brisbane Garbage System – Gluts in Africa are Critical and Need Solutions

While Brisbane’s waste removal system battles to discard perfectly good mangos, this contrasts starkly with the difficulties and opportunities associated with agricultural produce gluts in poor communities in rural Africa. Brisbane Mangoes So good is the mango harvest this year, that residents of Brisbane’s suburbs are battling to get rid of their excess mangos .

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Mango Glut Overloads Brisbane Garbage System – Gluts in Africa are Critical and Need Solutions

Eco Gadgets: ‘Mechanical Mobile’ needs a spin to generate renewable energy

Eco Factor: Concept cellphone needs you to spin it for power. With the sun providing energy only the during daytime, and the wind blowing stronger at night than in the day, industrial designers are working on products that harness a completely independent source of renewable energy – motion

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Eco Gadgets: ‘Mechanical Mobile’ needs a spin to generate renewable energy

Ask Pablo: Refrigerator Water Dispenser or Refrigerated Bottles?

Image Source: Alex Muse Dear Pablo: We drink a great deal of water all day long and wondered which uses more energy: opening the refrigerator door to get a bottle of cold water or using the water dispenser on the exterior of the unit. Also, does it take more energy to get ice from the mechanical dispenser (which also uses energy to make ice) or more by opening and closing the freezer door to get some cubes? The big picture answer is that it probably doesn’t matter.

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