Earlier this week while sifting through my RSS feeds, I stumbled onto a pretty ingenious concept design for improving the average traffic light. The “Eko light is a simple yet, highly practical concept for traffic lights that not only helps preserve the environment by reducing pollution but promotes safer driving as well.” While I seriously doubt the validity of the designers ecological intensions, I do believe the concept’s benefits to driver sanity could be enormous.

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Now I may be in the minority, but when I think back on Tony Stark’s Mark III Armor I don’t think about it’s ability to fly, it’s weapons arsenal, or it’s indestructibility. I think about JARVIS and the Heads Up Display. The ability of the suit to scan it’s surroundings, analyze them, and then present pertinent information about them is absolutely amazing. Not to mention the one feature we could actually use in our day to day lives. I almost can’t imagine what it would be like to have access to an affordable system like that. Fortunately, some pretty smart people over at MIT can imagine it and are attempting to bring us the next best thing to Ironman’s HUD system.

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