Visioneros

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The following time-lapse video shows the CoreHouse Single pre-fabricated building being built by normal people without specific building or physical skills. This represents the one day of work which it took to complete the build.

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GMO expert Jeffrey M. Smith, author of the numbre one GMO bestseller “Seeds of Deception,” and “Genetic Roulette,” presents alarming evidence on why gene-spliced crops may lead to health and environmental destruction. We must learn to protect ourselves by discovering the “Campaign for Healthier Eating in America” — a genius plan to quickly end the genetic engineering of our food supply.

GMO scientists and the ruthless companies they work for are depending on your indifference and ignorance on this subject. Watch this video to learn about the dangers of these practices, try to educate yourself and those around you:

Everything You HAVE TO KNOW about Dangerous Genetically Modified Foods from Jeffrey Smith on Vimeo.

While politicians in U.S.A. keep lobbying on behalf of billionaire oil companies, a visionary inventor is hard at work on his proposal to run a motor with compressed air. Science fiction novelist Jules Verne predicted aero-cars and aero-buses. Ironically, inventor Francis Guy Negre shares the same birth date as Verne. Guy Negre, PDG, is founder of MDI Group. Negre, along with his son Cyril Negre and about 30 engineers are hard at work to make the compressed air engine a modern day reality selling zero-emission cars.

Negre is no novice to the arena, Negre worked in aeronautics during the 1980s, later shifting to cars and Formula 1 racing development, where he designed a (double V) 12 cylinder engine with a revolving valve system. In Luxembourg, around 1991, he produced a “dual-energy” engine running petrol and compressed air technology, which formed the start of MDI Enterprises S.A.

Actor Richard Gere attended a 5 day Buddhist gathering at Bodh Gaya in Bihar, India. Bodh Gaya is regarded as the holy site where Gautama Buddha attained enlightenment meditating under a Bodhi Tree. Gere said he is strongly in favor for turning Bodh Gaya into a vegetarian zone. An exemplary idea since, after all, the main purpose of the Buddha’s appearance on earth was to spread the doctrine of “Ahimsa” or non-violence, specifically to stop the killing of animals. Watch a short video clip HERE.

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from Magic.” - Arthur C. Clarke.

Cold Fusion is the short name for the study of nuclear fusion at or near room temperatures. This hypothetical form of nuclear fusion does not require the extreme temperatures used in current day Nuclear Reactors. It’s a “hot” topic in scientific circles sparking controversy since 1989 when electro-chemists Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons announced they had produced fusion in their lab. Cold Fusion is also called “Low Energy Nuclear Reaction” (LENR) or Condensed Matter Nuclear Science” Opponents and skeptics make arguments based upon initial replication failures and errors. I would say, these errors are simply part of the experimentation process and one should continue until exhausting all attempts, there is always something to learn in the process. Well some of these visionary scientists and inventors refused to give up and have recently been conducting new experiments which raise new questions about Cold Fusion as a commercially viable alternative. I can only think that technology has come a bit further since 1989 and new approaches can be taken into it’s investigation.

Architect Cameron Sinclair hopes to inspire architects and home designers to respond to the world housing crisis. Projects include transitional shelters like an Inflatable Hemp House, a Shipping Container and other ideas that will allow residents to eventually build a more permanent home or improve these sustainable homes. His focus is on how architecture interacts with the community and provides several plans for community centers. Countries include Africa, India, México, U.S.A., Brazil, China, Israel, Palestine, Vietnam.

His group provided Sunami relief shelters, community centers and schools. The parents and kids built and are now using theses schools. He worked with residents and volunteers in New Orleans after Katrina hurricane, to clean, redesign and rehabilitate homes without waiting for FEMA to tell them what to do. Quick assembly emergency shelters and tents, devemoped by hundreds of architects and designers and inventors that are getting involved around the world in humanitarian work.

Here’s a quick look at the “SixthSense” prototype, the wearable gesture interface designed by Pranav Mistry. This device uses a webcam, microphone, mini-projector and smart phone and will eventually be the size of a silver dollar and will radically change the way we interface with technology.

Pranav Mistry is a Research Assistant and PhD candidate at MIT Media Lab. His vision stems from the practical everyday needs of the masses. He has been experimenting with existing devices and finding unique uses for them. His “Sixth Sense” wearable gesture interface is the result of years tinkering with devices, like taking apart a computer mouse he developed an inexpensive controller. He used a webcam (camera) he removed the microphone and using a mini projector he can use a piece of paper as a computer monitor. His gesture recognizing software makes the whole thing work like magic. Pranav is recognized as one of the most important inventors of our time and has offered details of some of this inventions as open source, so that people all over the world can start developing new ways of using technology. Website: www.pranavmistry.com

Getting into our privacy booth on wheels, we believe to be independent. But it seems this so called “independence” comes with a price. The U.S. lost $78 BILLION dollars due to traffic congestion in 2005. U.S. citizens pay $164 BILLION dollars for traffic accidents every year, with the tragic loss of over 40,000 lives each year due to traffic accidents. We are slaves to our cars like a deadly addiction. Our current system is not efficient. Other countries have already started using high speed rail systems which offer efficient mass transportation using clean energy alternatives. Our traffic engineers should be diligently working on plans to build mass transportation systems that would cost less than $25 million per mile, to be able to compete with current automotive road building costs. The more advanced countries have rail systems running at speeds of 300 MPH, but systems could be designed to run at 450 MPH. It’s not to late to enter the race.