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The world's fastest electric car, and more in the week that was
Tesla finally sealed the deal on its acquisition of SolarCity this week, and the merger is already producing incredible results. The two companies just completed a project to power an entire island on solar power. In other energy news, researchers in Israel developed found a way to make solar panels 70 percent more efficient. Two Chinese companies are building a massive solar plant in the exclusion zone near the Chernobyl nuclear reactor. And Sweden announced plans to cut its tax on solar energy by 98 percent.
Liquid Space project promises to make art react to you
Dutch art group Studio Roosegaarde is no stranger to interactive art installations, but it looks to really be upping its game with its latest project, which promises to change its form in response to human sounds and motion, assuming it doesn't blind them first. To do that, the installation will apparently make use of an array of tubes, sensors, LEDs and unspecified embedded electronics and "mechanisms," along with some software that will let the light show "evolve" its behavior over time. There's no word as to where you might be able to leave your mark on it just yet, however, although the studio says it'll be ready by the end of the year.[Via MAKE:Blog]
Art installation made up of hundreds of case fans is full of air
Taking the all-fan casemod to the next (il)logical extreme, Dutch art concerns Studio Roosegaarde has built a 10-meter long corridor out of hundreds of fans called Flow 5.0. The installation, which is currently on display at the TodaysArt festival in Rotterdam, is controlled by several microphones and other sensors, allowing the speed and direction of the fans to respond to passing visitors -- or, in the words of the artists, "By walking and interacting an illusive landscape of transparencies and artificial winds is created." Hmm, and here we were sort of hoping to get one of these to dry off after a shower. Check a video of the install after the break.[Via Technabob]
