Golfis one of the most popular sports in the world – in the United States alone there are over 15,000 golf courses. Yet, each year,300 million golf balls go missing, with many ending up in bodies of water. One golf ball can take up to1,000 yearsto decompose, and as it does, it slowly excretes a large amount ofheavy metal zinc, a pollutant.
So, in an effort to make sports and leisure more environmentally friendly, the Spanish company Albus Golfhas created the Ecobioball: a golf ball packed with fish food that dissolves within 48 hours of being in water.
A flaming lotus sculpture from Maker Faire 2009 (jurvetson/Flickr)
Whether you have a knack for inventing things or just want to see some really cool stuff people have made, you should definitely check out Maker Faire in San Mateo, CA this weekend (May 22-23, 2010).
Maker Faire is a two-day extravaganza that features a diverse collection of projects from garage inventors and tinkerers across the nation.
The good folks at Festo are up to their usual biomimicry mischief again. This time, they’ve made a robotic appendage based on the fluid dexterity of an elephant trunk. The “hands” of this new mechanical arm are sensitive enough to grab items as fragile as a tomato without harming them, making it ideal for manufacturing.
More great news for all you future engineers: chances are good that you’ll soon be bringing in the benjamins. According to a recent survey from the National Association of Colleges and Employers, graduates of engineering programs have higher starting salaries than those of any other discipline, Business Week reports.
Here are their stats for the top 10 best-paid majors (after the jump):
