It’s hard enough being tied to your cell phone without having to worry about getting the “Low Battery Icon of Death” right in the middle of an important task – and charging up via wall outlets takes forever. Eesha Khare of Saratoga, California has invented a device that could wipe away battery bothers with a supercapacitor that can charge your phone in 20 seconds. Her research won her a $50,000 prize in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. Read more original article...

Now, a 22 day journey at less than 7 miles per hour might not seem that impressive…until you consider that the successful journey didn’t consume a single drop of fossil fuel or emit a single puff of carbon emissions. The catamaran completed this year’s passage across the Atlantic in 22 of days, 4 days faster than the same journey made last year. The length of journey is currently being authorized by Guinness World Records. read more original article...

  19-year-old Boyan Slat has unveiled  plans to create an Ocean Cleanup Array that could remove 7,250,000 tons of plastic waste from the world’s oceans. The  device consists of an anchored  network of floating booms and processing platforms that could be dispatched  to garbage patches around the world. Instead of moving through the ocean, the  array would span the radius of a garbage patch, acting as a giant funnel. The  angle of the booms would force plastic in the direction of...