Tech for Good Ten: Gravity-powered light, farm-to-home communities and a prosthetic sense of touch
14th September 2015
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Tech For Good Ten | 14.09.2015
1// Make giving to charity as easy as typing a hashtag
Making charity donating as easy as firing off a tweet
2// For homes without electricity, a lamp that is powered by gravity
New project GravityLight uses the often over-looked resource
3// Allowing the bedtime story to become a trans-continental event
StoryHome allows families separated by distance to send audio recordings to each other
4// California’s first “farm-to-home” community is living on energy efficiency
The Cannery’s urban innovative dynamic has grown to over 500 sustainable homes
5// Colourful architecture is helping locals of a Vietnamese district to seek shelter
Re-ainbow also provides solar power to the area when the local grid goes down
6// This prosthetic hand restored one man’s sense of touch
Company DARPA is living up to its promise of producing limbs with realistic sensations
7// Uber for healthcare? New tech is making doctors more accessible to patients
Interconnectedness is giving us new ways to interact with our healthcare providers
8// Upcycle living rolls out affordable shipping container housing
Phoenix-based firm aims to bring affordable shipping container housing to the masses with its modern cost-effective designs
9// Record-breaking new artificial leaf makes power from sun and water
New artificial leaf is close to being viable for use in domestic homes
10// Do ‘green technologies’ make a difference in the long run?
A new study from the University of British Columbia is hoping to gather data that will be able to answer these questions for the public.