JESS3 / The State of The Internet from Jesse Thomas on Vimeo.

It was a long shot. And yet seven years of innovation later, the 70-person Solar Impulse team is nearing its goal. “We were intrigued by this notion of perpetual flight,” said Borschberg when visited in September in Solar Impulse’s massive hangar, situated smack in the middle of Düendorf Airfield, a Swiss military zone . “We wanted to be totally independent of any fuel.” Forget hybrid planes, or the biofuels fixating most of the sustainable aviation sector today; Piccard and Borschberg are purists. “No fuel, no CO2, no pollution. It could fly almost forever, assuming good weather,” Borschberg said of their invention.

By November of last year, test pilot Markus Scherdel—formerly of DLR German Aerospace, the NASA of Germany—was climbing into the cockpit of the completed prototype to taxi down the Dübendorf runway for the first time. Soon after that, Scherde was back in the cockpit, this time guiding the plane not just down the runway but up into the air for a series of successful “flea-hop” mini-flights over the tarmac.

Excerpt from GOOD Magazine.

Love this guy.

That’s so true. I do notice frivolous law suits just sky rocketed within the past 10-15 years. Everyone’s walking on egg shells, constantly avoiding threats however they can. I blame the internet; the net geners. :B

Great Ted Talk!

Question: How many hipsters does it take to change the lightbulb?
Answer: What. You mean, you don’t know?

Maria Yasko’s interior design project for family entertainment center. I would die to have rooms like these!

@ Behance

Their thought process is neato. More here.