Metropopular (by brainpickings)
An animated short film about what American cities would say to one another if they could talk.
More: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/08/31/metropopular/
“Buildings account for more than 40 percent of carbon emissions in the United States, so replacing even a fraction of conventional lighting with OLEDs could result in a significant reduction in electricity use”
Berkeley Researchers Light Up White OLEDs | PhysOrg.com
Clearing the path for hands-free, automated driving
At UC Berkeley, PATH research engineer Wei-Bin Zhang describes his vision for an automated vehicle infrastructure. His team is developing technologies that allow cars, buses and trucks to connect with the roadway using sensors placed on vehicles and magnets drilled into the cement.
IBM, UC Berkeley and five US National Labs are collaborating in a consortium to make an electric vehicle battery that goes all the way up to 500 miles per charge. The project wants to make this happen by using a lithium-air battery, which…
(via Gizmodo)
