How water bottles create cheap lighting in Philippines

18 September 2011 Last updated at 21:31 ETHelp

A simple initiative in the Philippines is bringing a bit of brightness into the lives of the country's poorest people.

The project is called "Litre of Light", and the technology involved is just a plastic bottle filled with water.

It's an environmentally-friendly alternative to an electric light bulb, and it's virtually free.

The BBC's Kate McGeown reports from Manila.

BBC REPORT:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-14967535

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Jamie's Food Revolution TED 2011

Eric Whitacre: A virtual choir 2,000 voices strong

http://www.ted.com In a moving and madly viral video last year, composer Eric Whitacre led a virtual choir of singers from around the world. He talks through the creative challenges of making music powered by YouTube, and unveils the first 2 minutes of his new work, "Sleep," with a video choir of 2,052. The full piece premieres April 7 (yes, on YouTube!).

Engineering & Music

This is almost unbelievable. See how all of the balls wind up in catcher cones.

This incredible machine was built as a collaborative effort between the

Robert M. Trammell Music Conservatory and the Sharon Wick School of

Engineering at the University of Iowa . Amazingly, 97% of the machine's

components came from John Deere Industries and Irrigation Equipment of

Bancroft , Iowa .. Yes, farm equipment!

It took the team a combined 13,029 hours (6.26 years) of set-up, alignment,

calibration, and tuning before filming this video but as you can see, it was

WELL worth the effort.

It is now on display in the Matthew Gerhard Alumni Hall at the University

and is already slated to be donated to the Smithsonian.

David Lanz - Cristofori's Dream

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Hoonah's Ed Tech Plan Process

In the spring of 2011, Hoonah School District, a remote village in Southeast Alaska, put together a process to plan technology for their community for the next three years. This video outlines the process:
- Gathering all stakeholders for input
- Celebrating unique aspects of village
- Visioning the future
- Designing a tech plan to support these things
- Submitting the tech plan to the State Department of Education & Early Development for feedback, approval, and E-Rate funding.

For more information, contact: roxanne.mourant@alaska.gov

Alaska's Learning Network Promo

Alaska's Learning Network Promo

30-sec intro to Alaska's Learning Network www.aklearn.net

Playing Pool with a Dual-Armed Robot

Masters thesis of Thomas Nierhoff at Technische Universität München

Read more at http://spectrum.ieee.org/blogs/automaton

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Carpe Diem High School in Arizona - BLENDED LEARNING best model

Carpe Diem Marketing Video - Final Cut from Nicholas Tucker on Vimeo.

You’re invited to spend less than 10 minutes of your time to view the future of learning, This is a film produced by Lur Films to show Carpe Diem School in action and it will forever change the way you think about education.

Posted by Tom Van derArk - Ed Reformer: http://edreformer.com/2011/05/watch-this-great-carpe-diem-video/

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