Saturday, September 13, 2008

HARDWARE MEETS SOFTWEAR: or, how to afford more yarn

This car runs on water (sort of)

Yes, you have the right blog and, no, that's not knitwear I have pictured above. Though a veteran software enthusiast, I admit to occasionally being smitten by a bit of hardwear, specifically any brilliant technical achievement like this CAR THAT RUNS ON WATER! Well, in truth, this sporty little beauty, hand made by my brother-in-law, Jim Thornley, in Australia, is a hybrid that runs on hydrogen extracted from H2O by a converter he makes. Currently he's selling the converter in Australia and it saves a pile of gas.

With all of us knitters finding our yarn dollars being gobbled up by too-high fuel costs, this converter could be every knitter's friend—well, everybody's friend, for that matter. Imagine taking your existing car and converting it to a hybrid that zips along aided by a bottle of water? Think of the yarn we could buy, the trips we could go on, the pollution we could reduce? I can't help but be excited and thought you might be, too.

Usually word of these kinds of innovations are buried deep inside magazines with 'driver' or 'motor' in the title, thus we hard-knitting women don't find out about them until they are old news. Today, you heard it first!

http://jtsdesign.com.au/content.html

From the entry 'Wild, Mysterious Australia'. Jane, it's lovely to hear my everyday world described through the eyes of a newcomer....it makes me look at things afresh. Looking forward to meeting you in Sydney shortly.

By Christine Jones on 2008 12 28