Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week’s best green developments and clean tech news for us — it is the Week in Green.
What’s going to the high-tech city of the long run appear to be? This week Inhabitat brought you a sneak peek as we took an exclusive look inside Abu Dhabi’s carbon-neutral Masdar City , which just opened for business. We also brought you up to date photos of the world’s largest wooden structure , and we spotted several innovative solar-powered buildings – Sweden’s rotating photovoltaic cog building and a self-sustaining pod home which might be perched on any roof.
Green transportation also took off with a blast this week because the Linde E1 Electric Go-Kart set a Guinness World Record by traveling from 0-60 in 3.4 seconds and Synergy’s folded-wing glider plane announced plans to compete within the CAFE Green Flight Challenge. We also saw greener vehicles gear up world wide as France announced plans to deploy a fleet of all-electric garbage trucks next week and Nissan unveiled the NV200 — Manhattan City’s taxi of tomorrow. And for those attempting to find an underwater escape this summer, don’t fail to spot the 0 Aqua Star 0 – a submersible electric scooter able to charting the sea depths.
In other news, this week we showcased several high-tech concept gadgets made out of paper – an 1 origami mobile phone 1 that folds right into a flat piece of cardboard and the world’s first 2 interactive paper computer 2 . We also brought you a 3 sensor glove 3 that can help stroke patients recover through gaming, and we covered a clutch of wired home furnishings that bring new aspiring to the term geek chic — from an 4 interweb chaise 4 created from 1,100 feet of coaxial cable to an 5 analog cassette tape chair 5 , to a 6 modern computer mouse 6 product of fine wool felt.
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