Wind-Powered Vehicle «Greenbird»

“Wind-powered electric vehicles primarily use wind-turbines installed at a strategic point of the vehicle, which are then converted into electric energy which causes the vehicle to propel. While they are not in mainstream use yet, many schools have begun building the new technology and research into their curriculums to teach students and to get them active in the subject.

Ecotricity's Greenbird vehicle, designed and piloted by Richard Jenkins, broke the land speed world record for a wind-powered vehicle in 2009. Greenbird recorded a top speed of 126.4 mph (203.4 km/h), and sustained a speed of 126.2 mph (203.1 km/h) for the required time of three seconds, beating the previous, American held, record of 116 mph (186.7 km/h), set by Bob Schumacher in the Iron Duck in March 1999 at the same location”. – Wikipedia

Photos: Richard Jenkins poses for photographs with the world's fastest wind powered land Vehicle at Science Museum on August 3, 2009 in London, England. Richard Jenkins broke the record reaching in his Greenbird car on the dry plains of Lake Ivanpah in Nevada, USA. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

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Search Operation Underway After Cargo Ships Sinks Off Welsh Coast

A Royal Air Force search and rescue helicopter leaves RAF Valley as the search continues for the crew of cargo vessel The Swanland which sank off north Wales on November 27, 2011 in Anglesey, Wales. Five crew are still missing after the recovery of one body today. Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge, is a search and rescue helicopter co-pilot and took part in the rescue last night which saved two crewman. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

 An Irish Coastguard Rescue helicopter leaves RAF Valley as the search continues for the crew of cargo vessel The Swanland which sank off north Wales on November 27, 2011 in Anglesey, Wales. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

People watch waves crash over the Holyhead breakwater as the search continues for the crew of cargo vessel The Swanland which sank off north Wales on November 27, 2011 in Holyhead, Wales. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

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Emirates Launches Daily A380 Flights From Dubai To Munich

The Emirates Airbus A380 registration A6-EDP lands at Munich Airport Franz Joseph Strauss on November 25, 2011 in Munich, Germany. Emirates Airlines has launched a new daily A380 service from Dubai to Munich with its first flight. (Photo by Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Images)

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Concept Design Home “Reversible Destiny Lofts MITAKA: In Memory Of Helen Keller” By Reversible Destiny Foundation

“The Reversible Destiny Foundation is an artists-architects-poets group formed by Madeline Gins and Shusaku Arakawa. The Foundation’s work concerns the body, its simultaneously specific and non-specific relation to its surroundings. The philosophical findings of what a body or person is directs their architectural theories and works. The Foundation plans to collaborate with practitioners in a wide-range of disciplines including, but not limited to experimental biology, neuroscience, quantum physics, experimental phenomenology, and medicine. Their architectural projects have included residences, parks and plans for housing complexes and neighborhoods.

The Reversible Destiny Lofts – Mitaka (In Memory of Helen Keller) is a nine-unit multiple dwelling. It was first completed example of procedural architecture put to residential use. These lofts reflexively articulate the residents’ operative tendencies and coordinating skills essential to and determinative of human thought and behavior; which means to say, the lofts manage, by virtue of how they are constructed, to reveal to their residents the ins and outs of what makes a person, in this case the resident. This is the same set of tendencies and skills to which Arakawa and Madeline Gins gave diagrammatic form in their decades-long research project The Mechanism of Meaning.

Built by Takenaka Corp., a leading Japanese contractor, the apartments actually meet every building-code requirement. Through its construction, the Reversible Destiny Lofts – Mitaka (In Memory of Helen Keller) invite optimistic and constructive action to help residents live long and ample lives”. – Wikipedia

Photos: Exterior and Interior of the concept design home “Reversible Destiny Lofts MITAKA: In Memory of Helen Keller” is seen on October 27, 2005 in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by Koichi Kamoshida/Getty Images)

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How To Train Your Dragon Arena Spectacular” Media Call

Dreamworks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg poses with “The Gronkle” at the How to Train Your Dragon Media Call at Fox Studios on November 29, 2011 in Sydney, Australia. The “How to Train Your Dragon Arena Spectacular” world premiere will take place in Australia in March 2012. (Photo by Brendon Thorne/Getty Images)

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The Science Museum Unveils Their Latest Exhibition “Robotville” Displaying The Most Cutting Edge In European Design

An iCub robot built by the Italian Institute of Technology tracks a ball in the Robotville exhibition at the Science Museum on November 29, 2011 in London, England. The Science Museum's Robotville exhibition showcases 20 unique and cutting-edge robots from European research laboratories, it is free to enter and runs from December 1–4, 2011. (Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images)

Robotics PhD student Luke Wood works on KASPAR, a robot built at the University of Hertfordshire to help autistic children, in the Robotville exhibition at the Science Museum on November 29, 2011 in London, England. (Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images)

 FILOSE robot built by the Taalin University of Technology which is controlled by motion sensors on a moving person, is displayed in the Robotville exhibition at the Science Museum on November 29, 2011 in London, England. (Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images)

Robotics student Gildo Andreoni works on a Dexmart robotic hand built at the University of Bologna in the Robotville exhibition at the Science Museum on November 29, 2011 in London, England. (Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images)

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