We had our first meeting of the winter term for Smart House last night and it was a good turn out. For those of you who couldn’t make it here is a brief overview of what happened: Jameson quickly brought everyone up to speed on the mission and introduced the new website, blog and forum. [...]

The Insulating Architectural Coating group (we can’t quite call them paints, since ) is using selective near-IR scattering filler particles to insulate building materials from IR radiation produced by the sun. For those non techspeak folk: Basically, normal (TiO2 based) paints don’t efficiently insulate surfaces from heat produced by the sun, so this group is [...]

This technology has the potential to completely change the way we interact with computers. This table is a great example of smart design and efficient use of space. This video is in Spanish, but it shows a new way of ironing (or not ironing rather). Ironing is one of those things that has changed in [...]