Category Archives: Innovations

Innovative Home Tours: ‘Ultra-Modern Shipping Container’ – Kamloops, BC

Video October 10, 2020 boomersdaily Leave a comment

In this video, we’re touring a really unique and modern shipping container home in Kamloops, BC, and hearing from the family’s story of how and why they host their shipping container on Airbnb. Cathi and her husband Trevor downsized to this small space three years ago after their sons had left home and the couple has been living in it full-time ever since.

The main house has 2 bedrooms, a kitchen and a living room, and a full bathroom. It’s built with 4 recycled shipping containers. There’s an additional studio space that’s connected to the main house with a breezeway and it is set up as a fully self-contained micro cabin, plus there’s an awesome outdoor kitchen with a dining space and wood-fired pizza oven.

Boats, Innovations, Leisure, Living, Videos

Innovative Boat Tours: ’28-Ft Tiny Houseboat’ (Video)

Video October 3, 2020 boomersdaily Leave a comment

This is a handcrafted cedar tiny houseboat that measures 28’x8′ and weighs 6,000 lbs. The Koroc V model has a massive deck with sofas, a dinette, and a hammock that hangs over the water, plus a bimini for shade. Indoors there’s a kitchen, bathroom, dining table, and a dinette with sofas that converts into a queen-size bed. It was handcrafted by Richard from Daigno in Quebec, Canada.

This float home is completely off-grid with a solar panel and batteries for electricity, a water pump to pull water from the lake or river for showering, a freshwater tank for drinking water, a composting toilet, a carbon filter for greywater, and a propane heater. There are also two roof fans and plenty of windows and doors that can help keep air circulating.

This is a beautiful build and it was fun to spend the day on the water with Richard and his business partner Özgen, touring and spending time on the pontoon boat, and even cooler to go back to his workshop at the end of the day to see where all the magic happens. Richard really does create every part of this boat by hand and we hope you enjoyed taking a peek at another of his masterpieces!

Find out more about Daigno houseboats here: https://daigno.ca/en/home.html & https://www.facebook.com/daigno.ca

Adventure, Innovations, Leisure, Travel, Videos

Camping Design: ‘Top 10 Mini Camper Trailers, All Under 15′ & $10,000’ (Video)

Video October 3, 2020 boomersdaily Leave a comment

Looking for the best mini camper trailers under 10,000 dollars, we have you covered with these remarkable designs. Coming up are the 10 best American made mini campers under 15-feet that won’t cost you a fortune. I’m Glenn, and let’s see what we found.

Adventure, Innovations, Leisure, Travel

Top New Camper Shells: “GEHOcab Findus & Fiete” – “All-Terrain Mini RVs” (2020)

August 26, 2020 boomersdaily Leave a comment

The extremely compact, ultra-light cabin is designed for the new generation of all-terrain SUVs such as the new Defender or Mercedes-G as well as the Wrangler or Bronco. With the very short floor length, the body blends in harmoniously with the driver’s cab, which is opened behind the C-pillar.

With a width of 1.80 m and length of 3.95 m, it weighs only 460 kg. The weight can be reduced even further through an interior construction made of carbon. It offers full living comfort for two people with toilet, shower and lengthways beds in the alcove, as well as a complete kitchen in the rear.

FIETE SPECIFICATIONS:

Total weight 460 kg dry
Body made of aerospace CARBON (110 kg)
Wide luggage flap over the entire rear
Frost-proof inner tanks, 90 liters of fresh water
100 Ah LiFePO4 battery and 100 WP solar
Compressor cooler 29 liters, gas cooker,
124 cm wide kitchen unit with two drawers
Cassette toilet
Openable shower
Sleeper lengthways on 12 cm comfort mattress
2 persons

FINDUS SPECIFICATIONS:

Total weight 527 kg dry
Body made of aerospace CARBON (125 kg)
Vibration-dampened cabin mounting
Wide luggage flap over the entire rear
Frost-proof inner tanks, 150 liters of fresh water
Outside shower, outside light
160 Ah LiFePO4 battery and 300 WP solar
CERAN induction hob 1500 watts 220 volts
Compressor cool box 55 liters
134 cm wide kitchen unit with three drawers
SLIDE-Cross WC comfort bathroom, spacious wet room
Compost toilet
Sleeper lengthways with 12 cm comfort mattress, wardrobe
Two sleeping places on converted bench

The headroom is 1.95 m. On request, a lower roof shape can also be selected, which reduces the overall height of the vehicle to less than 2.75 m. Container loading is possible with special wheels.

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Adventure, Home Design, Homes, Innovations, Videos

INNOVATIVE HOMES: “OFF-THE-GRID CONTAINER HOME” IN NEW ZEALAND (VIDEO)

Video August 21, 2020 boomersdaily 3 Comments

One of the major advantages of shipping container homes is that they can be constructed off site and transported to remote locations. That’s exactly what has happened with this spectacular home which has been built using a 40ft shipping container. Situated in the hills overlooking the ocean and with mountain views of the South Island in New Zealand, this home is simply breathtaking. It’s remote location has meant that off-the-grid living is essential and the home is powered by an impressive solar system.

Electronics, Innovations, Retail, Technology, Television

Top Innovations: Xiaomi Unveils “Mi TV LUX”, World’s First Transparent TV For Mass Consumer Market

August 13, 2020 boomersdaily Leave a comment

Beijing, CHINA, Aug 11, 2020: Mi TV LUX Transparent Edition is the world’s first mass-produced transparent TV. With an edge-to-edge transparent self-luminous display transmitting images that seem to be suspended in the air, this TV ushers in a new way to consume visual content previously only seen in science fiction films.

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Mi TV LUX Transparent Edition offers a perfect combination of cutting-edge display technology and exquisite industrial design. For Xiaomi, it is also a major exploration of future TV forms. When Mi TV LUX Transparent Edition is turned off, it looks like a mere glass display. The pictures it displays seem to be floating in the air, merging the virtual and the real to bring an unprecedented visual experience.

Unlike traditional TVs that come with a back panel, Mi TV LUX Transparent Edition creatively embeds all the processing units in its base stand, preserving the compact shape of the screen and in the meantime brings about countless technical challenges.

Health, Innovations, Medicine, Technology, Videos

New Medical Technology: UC Davis Scientists Invent World’s First Total-Body PET Scanner (Video)

Video August 12, 2020 boomersdaily Leave a comment

UC Davis Health scientists Simon Cherry and Ramsey Badawi spent 15 years developing the world’s first total-body PET scanner, called EXPLORER. This imaging machine scans a patient’s entire body at one time, delivering breathtaking image quality that improves patient diagnoses and disease research.

UC Davis Cultivating Health blog: https://health.ucdavis.edu/cultivatin…

Design, Digital, Innovations, Magazines

New Design Magazines: “Wallpaper – August 2020”

August 9, 2020 boomersdaily Leave a comment

Welcome to the August issue, where we introduce Wallpaper* Re-Made – our new flagship project and an evolution of Wallpaper* Handmade, our decade-long initiative connecting designers, creatives, makers and manufacturers. We have pushed ourselves and our creative collaborators to absorb the lessons of decades of activism, environmentalism and innovation, and to focus more sharply on inspiration and intent.

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Automobiles, Innovations, Interviews, Technology, Transportation, Videos

New Electric Vehicles: The “2021 eBussy Modular Van” From Electric Brands

July 29, 2020 boomersdaily Leave a comment

The eBussy is the most innovative and modular light vehicle in the world. It generates a daily range of up to 200 km via its integrated solar modules and recuperating drives.

Its maximum range without charging, with full battery and solar modules is over 600 km. With more than 10 modular and interchangeable bodies, it can be transformed into a convertible, off-roader, box body, station wagon, pick-up or van and camping bus in just a few steps.

With its permanent, electronically controlled all-wheel drive in combination with its innovative all-steering system, its digital exterior mirrors and app-controlled communication system, as well as its 1000Nm torque, the eBussy sets new standards not only as a light vehicle.

Its empty weight without batteries, load and superstructure is only 450-600kg, but it can still carry up to 1000kg of load.

eBussy “Camper”

Business, Design, Innovations

Innovations: Spinneybeck “Silent-Silo” – Stand Alone Private “Office Booth”

July 22, 2020 boomersdaily Leave a comment

Conceived by iconic designer and Knoll alum, Carl Gustav Magnusson, Silent-Silo is an office booth that thinks outside of the box.

This circular booth uses materials that lend themselves to the the design’s curved walls while providing maximum acoustic privacy in FilzFelt’s 100% Wool Design Felt and Spinneybeck’s Dukta Flexible Wood.

Plus, it can be completely customized in over seventy finish options of Flexible Wood and 100% Wool Design Felt!

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