ConAgra Foods dramatically cut its water and energy consumption last year, thanks to proactive employees.

Everyone has heard of flat-pack furniture, but this “Bedroom in a Box” takes the concept to the extreme. Latvia-based designer Rolands Landsbergs of Boxetti has created an ultra-compact furniture set that contains everything you need in your bedroom (or any room).

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• World Economy record for Peugeot - 1445.6 kilometres on one tank of gas
• Passat Bluemotion to debut at Geneva Motor Show
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• Kia attempts to set fuel economy record for driving across the U.S.
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OK, there's an Etch A Sketch. But what's "Etcher"?

When we first landed on the Kickstarter page for "Etcher," a project that bills itself as "Etch A Sketch for iPad," we looked at the initial frame of the not-yet-playing promo video and thought, "OK, there's the Etch A Sketch, but what's Etcher? Just some silly app that pops a virtual Etch A Sketch onto your touch screen and lets you twiddle the dials with your fingertips? Show us the product."

D'oh (and wow): we were looking right at it.

Etcher's not some sort of digital-only re-creation. As you'll see once you hit Play on the video (embedded below), Etcher gobbles up the iPad and converts it into the classic Ohio Arts dial-and-draw toy, real knobs and all. But it also takes advantage of the iPad's 21st century technological magic to bring features to the Etch A Sketch that were pretty much unimaginable with the original toy.

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Samsung has announced that its ES9500 OLED TV will launch in South Korea in the second half of 2012 at a price equivalent to $9,000 U.S.

The TV, formally known as the Samsung Super OLED, will retail for 10 million won ($8,760 U.S.) and is expected to compete with LG's own OLED panel, the EM9600. The LG is also due in 2012 and won CNET's BEST of CES 2012 award.

OLED (organic light-emitting diode) is a display technology that could potentially outperform the picture quality of best LCD and plasma TVs of today. It's currently featured in mobile devices such as the Samsung Galaxy SII and the Sony PS Vita.

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  Biomimetic Design: Stunt Lizard's Tail Has Robotic Vehicle Applications
  
  by: Core77, 2012-05-09 21:00:00 UTC
  

  

  Dr. Robert J. Full is a professor at UC Berkeley's Department of Integrative Biology, and I guarantee that his job title doesn't prepare you for what he actually does. "My primary interests reside in the area of comparative biomechanics and physiology," he writes. "[My research program seeks] general design principles for species which have evolved different solutions to the problems of locomotion and activity in general."

  One of those species is that lizard with the bad-ass coloring up above. The Agama lizard, as it's called, has a very long tail:

  

  Full's research observed something surprising about how this particular lizard uses its tail, and realized it could be adapted for a wheeled robotic vehicle needing to pull some crazy stunt-type maneuvers. This video will show you what we can't in photos, and be sure to check out the slow-mo at 0:45. (You'll also catch a glimpse, at 2:28, of what I consider to be a terrifying cheetah-based robot by DARPA and Boston Dynamics.)

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  Amsterdam RAI Convention Centre Goes Greener
  
  by: TreeHugger Design, 2012-05-04 14:11:00 UTC
  Convention Centres are Huge Consumers of everything and generators of waste. Here is one that appears to address it seriously.

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  Coke, Sony, Volvo and Other ‘Climate Savers’ Cut CO2 by 100 Million Tons
  
  by: Environmental Leader, 2012-05-09 07:08:52 UTC
  Coca-Cola Company, Johnson & Johnson, Sony, Volvo and other members of WWF’s Climate Savers program cut their carbon dioxide emissions by more than 100 million tons over the period 1999 to 2011, according to an independent review of the program released today. The review, conducted by energy consultancy Ecofys, also found that by 2020, Climate [...]
  
  

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  Electricfoxy’s High-Tech “Move” Compression Top Monitors Your Movement and Gives You Feedback
  
  by: Inhabitat , 2012-05-09 17:00:21 UTC
  

  

  Your clothes may look great, but what are they doing for your golf swing? “Move,” a new high-tech compression top from Electricfoxy, has the ability to read your body’s posture and muscle movement and provide real-time feedback in the form of a gentle nudge to help you make necessary adjustments. The smart garment enables you to become your own instructor, coach or trainer by helping you set goals and adjust to meet them. The top is linked to a mobile app that you can use to manage and track your performance, and it’s part of a large cloud-based platform on which you can search and save several routines to help with sports, yoga or physical therapy.

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