Eclectic Color Roundup

Here’s a roundup of the most colorful art, products, websites and such that I’ve come across in the last week.

Products

Rainbow Glasses by Luis Porem

luisporem.com

Portugese industrial designer luis porem's new work 'rgb rainbow glasses'. The structure of the glasses have an internal channel where colorful ink can pass through, allowing users to choose their own colors. made from plastic the glasses have a flexible arm and can be filled
with water based ink.

Via designboom

Science

Color Changing Sensor Gel

sciencedaily.com

MIT researchers have created a new structured gel that can rapidly change color in response to a variety of stimuli, including temperature, pressure, salt concentration and humidity.

Among other applications, the structured gel could be used as a fast and inexpensive chemical sensor, says Edwin Thomas, MIT's Morris Cohen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering. One place where such an environmental sensor could be useful is a food processing plant, where the sensor could indicate whether food that must remain dry has been overly exposed to humidity.

Solar Energy Potential Map

FirstLook

A high-resolution interactive map that promises to enable wind developers, government policy makes and project financiers to make better decisions about where to site solar power projects.

Company CEO Kenneth Westrick had this to say in touting this new online tool:

"To produce this map, 3TIER developed a dataset that is approximately three times the resolution of existing industry solar data standards for the United States.

This is the first and only database of the solar resource that covers all of North, Central and South America. Not many organizations have the expertise and supercomputing resources to synthesize such massive amounts of historical satellite data or a tool like 3TIER’s FirstLook to present the data in a simple and elegant way."

Via TreeHugger

Art

Aeolian Electric: Wind-Powered Sculptures

eyecandycan.com

Elliott Montgomery’s recent Aeolian Electric Project at Solar One, a New York-based center devoted to promoting “green energy, arts, and education,” worked to break down the barriers between energy users and energy makers.

The exhibition began when a small group of artists were commissioned first to participate in a turbine design clinic, and then to contemplate the relationship between people and wind energy with the goal to develop their very own wind turbine. The result was a handful of wind-powered sculptures that made up the exhibit at Aeolian Electric, where visitors could grasp the artists’ solutions– and give it a twirl themselves.

Read about other designs over at inhabitat

Header Image by svillarosa