SolTech Energy, a Swedish company selling solutions for clean solar power, has developed a unique home heating system contained within roofing tiles made out of ordinary transparent glass. The attractive house-warming tiles also give roofs a beautiful and icy appearance.

The tiles are made from ordinary glass and have about the same weight as those made of clay. The tiles are installed on top of a black nylon canvas, under which air slots are mounted. The black color absorbs heat from the sun and the air starts to circulate. The hot air is then used to heat up water, which is connected to the house's heating system via an accumulator. 

 The beauty of the system is that it cuts energy costs throughout the year, during dark winter days as well as night time, due to its capacity to store heat in the isolating layers of air under the canvas.

The SolTech Energy System generates about 350 KWh heat per square meter, depending on climate, angle of roof and cardinal direction. For additional technical data visit SolTech Energy's webpage.

when Volkswagen invited its customers to think up some ideas for the model of future cars, one concept - "THE HOVER CAR" - came up which impressed the firm so much that a short CGI YouTube video was made to showcase it.

The video below shows a VW flying tow-seater zipping through Beijing. The car was powered by minerals underground, which was the brainchild of a girl in china who responded to the carmaker's call for car innovation concepts.

The idea is that thrusters on the back of the car would propel it forward.

Getting the "car" to work for real would require electromagnetic strips embedded into the roads below it, thus creating the hovering effect via electromagnetic suspension. As a prize, the girl's parents got to "test drive" the car in a simulated video. Accoding too Creativity Online, VW received 119,000 udeas abd got 33 million hits on its website.

It seems that we have just barely started to see the capability of e-ink.The broadest use is obviously in tablets but, since the development of adaptable e-paper i has solid potential in fashion industry also. Take the Volvorii Timeless peep-toe heels, made by new Lithuania-based startup iShüuTechnologies, as of now looking for subsidizing on Indiegogo.



The shoe come in both highly contrasting, on account of an adaptable e-link show incorporated in upper portion of shoes it can be tweaked to a mixed bag of designed outfits. Concealed into an empty cut out of shoe's sole is a Bluetooth low-vitality recipient, which permits the wearer to program the e-ink show in either square dark or white, or with an example to match their outfit.

The show will likewise have physical and in addition computerized customisation alternative.





An alternate remote module in sole permits the shoe's presentation to be charged without links. On the other hand, it obliges so little power, it will just need to be charged like clockwork at most.

The group is presently offering the Volvorii Timeless shoes as a prize for an Indiegogo brisk riser vow of $149, restricted to 10 sets; the consistent crowdfunding cost is $249. RRP is yet to be declared. The group is assessing a conveyance date of December not long from now; you can discover more information on the Volvorii Indiegogo page.

A company called Laser Power Systems as created a concept for a Thorium-powered car engine.The Thorium is radioactive, and the team uses bits of it to build a laser-beam that heats water, produces steam, and powers an energy-producing turbine.

Thus "if your car is powered by Thorium, you would never need to refuel it". As Thorium is one of the most dense materials on the planet and a small sample of it can give 20 million times more energy than a similarly-sized sample of coal.

The thing is, Dr. Charles Stevens, the CEO of Laser Power Systems, told Mashable that Thorium engines won’t be in cars anytime soon.

“Cars are not our primary interest,” Stevens said. ”The automakers don’t want to buy them.”

According to him, too much of auto mobile industry is focused of making money off of gas engines, and it will take at least a couple decades for Thorium technology to be used enough in other industries that vehicle manufacturers will begin to consider revamping the way they think about engines.

He believes a Thorium turbine about the size of an air conditioning unit could more provide cheap power for whole restaurants, hotels, office buildings, even small towns in areas of the world without electricity. At some point, Thorium could power individual homes.

He understands that people may be vary of Thorium because it is radioactive - but any such worry would be unfounded.

“The radiation that we develop off of one of these things can be shielded by a single sheet off of aluminium foil,” Stevens said. ”You will get more radiation from one of those dental X-rays than this.”