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Raspberry Pi, Smart Highways Win World's Biggest Design Prize
An anonymous reader writes "Last night the €500,000 INDEX: Award was awarded to five designs that can improve life for millions of people around the world. The winners include high-tech highways that light up at night, the $25 Raspberry Pi computer, a simple piece of paper that can cut food waste by extending the life of fresh produce by 2-4 weeks, and a plan for adapting to climate change."
Cut food waste by extending the life of fresh produce or... drive up the demand for cooled storage devices?
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...so many other, so much better ARM SoC devices? Just look at the ODROID selection, the MK808/908 selection, the CubieBoard etc.
> [FreshPaper extends] the life of fresh produce by 2-4 weeks
"Well, kids. I'm back with our month supply of Brussels sprouts, asparagus, and celery. Where's the FreshPaper? I can't find it."
(Kids get an evil look on their faces and stare away.)
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Will the "FreshPaper" cost the same as replacing spoiled produce or less? If not then I only see this being a niche product for those who are already trying to be more environmentally conscious. The only reference to price in the article is the use of the phrase "low-cost", which is ambiguous at best.
Great, more light pollution for astronomers.
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from TFA:
If the road could talk to you, what would it say?
i'm guessing it would be something like, "OWW! OWW! GET OFF ME! IT HURTS!"
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2-4x longer doesn't necessarily translate to 2-4 weeks longer as the article mentions.
OK, so five designs won the award. You listed four of them. Now how hard would it have been to also add the fifth? It's not as if the summary was extraordinarily long anyway.
Don't get baited by this troll.
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won't that make the road slicker, like logos on basketball courts? for the entire length of a high-speed highway, that's dangerous.
The veggie paper doesn't have any test data. The lighted up highways is just speculating. Nothing real, nothing proven. These are winners? I'd hate to see the losers
Strangely enough, so is Capitalism.
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Consumer Reports covered Fresh Paper a few months back, and from their testing, determined an air-tight container performed better.
https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine/2013/06/claim-check-fenugreen-freshpaper/index.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDR20j0aTUY
Bah, it's a road, so if you anthropomorphize it, it's saying "oooh, yeah, a little to the left".
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...imperialism, the highest and last stage of capitalism, is in irreversable decay.
It's so rotten, one might rightly say imperialism is already with one foot into the grave.
The silver lining: communism is one step ahead of imperialism.
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Why not just put the images in the street lamps and use a simple motor to select the image appropriate for the conditions?
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Greater probability of mechanical failure, whereas Glow in the dark temperature reactive paint may just need a very rare periodic repaint, just as the normal road paints require that are in use today.
Should be enough to build like 10 meters of that super intelligent highway!
May Peace Prevail On Earth
socialist economic strategies and capitalist economic strategies are both forms of "man's dominion over man" take either to extremes and they become evil,and eventually equivalent. The difference between a 100% company owned town without government restriction and a 100% government owned town without private employment is just the name of the owner, not the nature of the system, at least to those at the bottom.
The Broadcom BCM283 system on a chip is impressive, cramming all that capability into one cheap part. So is the Allwinner, which is similar, costs $7, and is the basis of tablets that cost $40. The Raspberry Pi is just a breakout board with a crappy connector layout. There are lots of other ARM boards, most with better layouts.
Images? Motor? um, simple transparent lcd would be more efficient.
Don't complain about syntax, grammar, or spelling. There is no.hell like input on android.
Have you looked at a road lately? Even though the markings are mostly not in the vehicles' tire tracks, they paint becomes worn very quickly indeed. We put up with it for paint because it's a radically different color to the background, so even heavily-faded paint is easy to see. Paint emitting a relatively dim glow is not going to be so easy to see, and it is going to need much more frequent repainting. Not to mention that the markings will have to cover a much larger proportion of the road to have any real utility, making the volume of paint required significantly higher.
We already have enough difficulty and expense maintaining the world's roads. Making them even more expensive and difficult to maintain is an idiotic idea, done largely in the name of being pseudo-futuristic. For the most part, you don't pay direct attention to the road surface when driving anyway, except when slowing for junctions. You focus most of your attention further down the road, or at least you are driving properly and anticipating problems. The correct answer isn't nonsensical painted snowflakes shimmering on the road. It is easily-maintained, automated road signs that would very quickly pay for themselves in a reduced failure rate and far-less-frequent maintenance.
You know, the same thing as the messaging gantries we have over many large roads now, although a far smaller scale is needed on most roads.
But that's not sexy and futuristic, so it doesn't win awards. Idiotic rubbish like this does.
You prefer 50% light absorption in the polarizer film? From a 300W light source?