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...Spencer's first change was the easiest. She replaced all the household light bulbs with compact fluorescents and lost 8,500 pounds. Instead of using the clothes dryer, she hangs her wash outside and uses cold water in the washing machine. That shed another 2,500 pounds. She drives slower - ever accelerating past 55 miles per hour in her Honda Civic. Another 2,500 pounds lost, plus a boost in her mileage up to 39 miles per gallon. Finally, the family devised a new commute plan that enabled her husband and her daughter to ride their bikes to work...
...innovative industrial designer, finding novel ways to improve on everyday objects from wheelbarrows to washing machines. Having made his mark in upright vacuums, he has now turned his attention to two more gadgets that require moving air at high speed: the handheld rechargeable vacuum and the rest-room hand dryer...
...didn't take long for Dyson to reinvent the public-rest-room hand dryer. Most dryers blow hot air on your hands to evaporate the water pooled on the surface. Dyson's Airblade instead blasts the water off your hands with a jet of air traveling at 400 m.p.h. The hurricane-force wind squeegees water into a drain; in a trial run, it took 10 seconds for our hands to go from dripping wet to bone dry. As a hygienic bonus, expelled air and collected water are thoroughly filtered. The Airblade hits gas or, rather, petrol stations in Britain this...
West African scientists have made significant progress in that regard since the 1990s by creating high-yielding varieties of rice that are well adapted to the dryer conditions of upland regions. Dubbed NERICA (New Rice for Africa), the plants were created through conventional breeding of a high-yield Asian variety with a hardier African one--something that had been tried many times before without success...
...which began by making tight-fitting compression shirts for football players three years ago, is also wooing the nonathlete with a broader range of shirts and shorts with a more generous fit than their pioneering products'. Founded by Kevin Plank, a college football player who was looking for a dryer, better-fitting alternative to a cotton shirt to wear under his pads, Under Armour initially produced nothing but underwear. It wasn't long before athletes began looking for the same breathability and comfort in their street clothes, pushing the company, based in Baltimore, Md., to expand its product line, which...