Smart walls react to human touch, sense activity in the room ||

Date: April 23, 2018
Source: Carnegie Mellon University
Summary:  Walls are what they are -- sizable, pulseless dividers. With a few applications of conductive paint and some electronics, however, walls can become smart infrastructure that sense human touch, and detect things like gestures and when appliances are used. Researchers found that they could transform insensible walls into smart walls at relatively low cost using simple tools and techniques, such as a paint roller. Read More:
    

Innovations In Building Intelligent Cities ||

An artistic rendition of the Thermoheliodome, a pavillion that cools itself via evaporation using mirrored panels that reflect heat toward water-cooled pipes. It is one of several energy-saving concepts from Forrest Meggers, who is jointly appointed in Princeton’s School of Architecture and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment.

Cities sprawl and tangle, juxtaposing ancient public squares and glistening skyscrapers. They provide homes for half of humanity, and economic and cultural centers for the rest. 

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Solar technology innovators race to produce cheaper and easier to install solar cells.

New Energy Technologies, the same company that introduced harvesting energy from roadways, announced that they’ve reached the next development stage of a process for spraying transparent solar cells and their related components onto any glass surface.
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