

The ecoefficient Oslo Opera House, in Norway, Opera House combines open communal public space with waterfront access. Courtesy of Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
An artist’s conception of the bioWAVE Ocean-Wave Energy System prototype.
Learning Landscape uses a grid of half-buried tires as a setting for math games at the School for AIDS Orphans in Kutamba, Uganda.
Heath ceramic tableware is committed to local manufacturing and materials and handcraft techniques.
The Power Aware Cord, prototype glows when current is passing through it.
The Armadillo body armor and face mask were designed to be lighter and better-fitting for de-mining operations.
The Mahangu (pearl millet) thresher is a low-cost and more efficient way to thresh the grain without damaging it.
Parabolic Z-20 Concentrated Solar-Power System is five times more efficient than flat photovoltaic panels.