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Flying Cars, Cloud Cities and Other Forgotten Inventions of Buckminster Fuller [Retromodo]

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2008-06-02 23:00:00 by Adrian Covert in Gizmodo
Buckminster Fuller might best be known for the molecules named after him and dome designs that inspired structures such as the Epicot center. But even more impressive is The New Yorker's rundown of Fuller's life and forgotten inventions, such as his three-wheeled, all-terrain car with a periscope, cities designed to float in the clouds or...
 
Tags: buckminster fuller, fuller, buckminster fuller moved, cities, dymaxion home, home, dymaxion home project, cloud cities, house entire cities
 
 
 
 
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CES: Gear Makers Strive for Surround Sound without the Wires

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2008-01-10 13:49:24 by Eliot Van Buskirk in Gadget Lab
...Buckminster Fuller's vision of wireless power still unfulfilled, these "wireless" speakers must be plugged in to a power source. But most living rooms have a fair number of power outlets in them, and connecting the speakers to those is vastly preferable to stringing cables to each of them from a home theater system in the front of the room ...
 
Tags: surround sound, surround sound speakers, sound, speakers, khz audio, audio, audio products, polk audio, multiple speakers
 
 
 
 
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British Farmers to Build Giant, Artificial, 220-Acre Farm Under Glass [Too Much Green]

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2008-06-12 21:09:10 by Adrian Covert in Gizmodo
...Buckminster Fuller's push for domed cities, farmers in Kent, England are building a 220-acre series of connected greenhouses, where nothing will be grown in soil. Instead, nutrient-packed water will be used to grow 1.3 million plants hydroponically. The 7 greenhouses will increase the UK's green vegetable supply 15%, and the green houses will...
 
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Passive Prostheseis Puts a Spring in Your Step

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2008-06-23 02:58:13 by Charlie Sorrel in Gadget Lab
...Buckminster Fuller's concept which uses pushing and pulling forces to maintain a balance, takes a very different approach to pedal prosthesis . Instead of using countless fragile and finicky computer controlled servo motors, Jerome Rifkin's device is mostly passive Prosthetics don't really do what feet do. The human foot doesn't actively do...
 
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Blast from the past: 'What is Man?' by R. Buckminster Fuller

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2008-06-29 12:01:00 by bookofjoe in bookofjoe
It originally appeared here on March 27, 2005, the opening of Chapter 4 "The Phantom Captain" of Fuller's 1938 book, "Nine Chains To The Moon The original post follows What is Man A self-balancing, 28-jointed adapter-base biped; an electro-mechanical reduction-plant, integral with segregated stowages of special energy extracts in storage...
 
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