Everyday innovation

We are surrounded by innovations in our daily lives, many we take for granted. This week your task is to stop and look more closely for innovation in your home. Choose one home innovation which makes your life easier or better and post it on the Padlet wall below. Double click anywhere in a space on the wall to make a new post.

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  1. In 1902, the world’s first air conditioner was switched on in Brooklyn. Since then, air conditioning has saved lives, raised productivity and made the American South liveable in the summer. Yet as it turns 110, critics fume that the technology cooks the planet even as it cools homes. Truths About Our Air-Conditioned World”, America uses more energy for air conditioning than Africa uses for everything. Enter Advantix Systems, a firm that makes air-conditioning systems that consume 30-50% less energy than conventional ones.
    Many air conditioners work something like this. First, cool the air to well below the desired room temperature. Then, blow it over a metal plate to make the moisture in it condense (and rain on the heads of passers-by, if the cooler is in New York). Then, warm the dry air back up to the desired temperature.

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