SkyDeck, A Bubble-style Window in Air Planes

http://fortune.com/2015/12/15/skydeck/


The company says SkyDeck will transform in-flight entertainment.

Windspeed Technologies, a private aerospace engineering services company, has come out with this new in-flight entertainment.

The company’s website describes SkyDeck as a “semi-external location” that gives passengers a more fuller view of the space around  than they’d get from a regular window seat.

Diamond Foundry to Manufacture Synthetic Diamonds More Quickly and Cheaply - 2015

The founders of Nanosolar, a large start-up that raised about half a billion dollars in its first six years, began exploring ways to use  their expertise to new technologies.

A group of engineers and scientists, led by R. Martin Roscheisen, a founder of Nanosolar, announced on 11 November 2015  that they had developed an advanced approach to making diamonds, using technology developed using processes used in making silicon chips and solar cells.

The technology will be used  a new company,  Diamond Foundry.  It  claims to have made proprietary breakthroughs  and it will be able to  manufacture high-quality diamonds more quickly and cost-effectively than with existing technologies..

The first synthetic diamonds appeared in the early 1950s.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/12/science/borrowing-from-solar-and-chip-tech-to-make-diamonds-faster-and-cheaper.html

Fully Transparent Solar Panel cum Solar Cell

Researchers at Michigan State University have created a fully transparent solar concentrator, which could turn any window  into a photovoltaic solar cell.

Richard Lunt, who led the research, and the team are confident that the transparent solar panels can be efficiently deployed in a wide range of settings, from “tall buildings with lots of windows or any kind of mobile device


The technololgy used is a transparent luminescent solar concentrator (TLSC). The TLSC consists of organic salts that absorb specific non-visible wavelengths of ultraviolet and infrared light, which they then luminesce (glow) as another wavelength of infrared light (also non-visible). This emitted infrared light is guided to the edge of plastic, where thin strips of conventional photovoltaic solar cell convert it into electricity. [Research paper: DOI: 10.1002/adom.201400103 - "Near-Infrared Harvesting Transparent Luminescent Solar Concentrators"]


http://www.offgridquest.com/extra/a-fully-transparent-solar-cell-that-coul

Model X SUV - Tesla

http://www.teslamotors.com/modelx




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Page-turning Scanners

Google engineer builds $1,500 page-turning scanner out of sheet metal and a vacuum
By Jeff Blagdon  on November 13, 2012
http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/13/3639016/google-books-scanner-vacuum-diy

MIT Study - Solar Technologies - Complexity - Cost - 2015

http://abcofsolar.com/new-mit-study-compares-all-solar-technologies-on-complexity-and-cost/

Electric Vehicles Become Lowest Total Cost of Ownership Vehicles in USA

http://grist.org/business-technology/whats-the-cheapest-new-car-to-drive-hint-its-an-ev/