Sayo-Art Prints and Gifts

Smart-Grid Energy Technology

Created for the May 2009 cover of Earth Magazine, this art represents smart-grid technology. Smartgrid technology's goal is to efficiently use energy where it is needed, sharing it with communities that have higher demand, and making the most of limited resources: both existing energy sources, and renewable energy.

Solar Energy Concentrator

A thin layer of dye particles helps to absorb and transfer the energy of the sun, increasing the efficiency of current solar technology. Digitally rendered for the National Science Foundation.

Arctic Sensor Network

Created to highlight Arctic research during the International Polar Year. Ancient peoples used Inuksuits, or rock cairns to help them navigate the landscape. Today, scientists use knowledge from local people, as well as new sensor technology to learn more about the changing landscape. Digitally rendered for the National Science Foundation.

Alternative Power and Wave Energy

Researchers at Oregon State University are developing technology to harness the power of the ocean; a potential new alternative energy source. Digitally rendered for the National Science Foundation.

Supercool Water

Water molecules were studied inside nanopores, changing their properties. Created for the cover of Science News magazine.

Nanotechnology and Applications

Nanotechnology sounds like a futuristic, far off technology. In fact, it is already currently in use in many common products. Helping to make them safe, stronger and more effective. Digitally rendered for the National Nanotechnology Initiative.

National Science Foundation Hurricane Technology

Many different kinds of sensors, from ground based to airplane borne, help gather data about hurricanes in the hope of better understanding and thus predicting them.

Corn Biotechnology

Researchers are developing new green technology that both helps use farm waste, and safely store concentrated amounts of natural gas. Digitally rendered for the National Science Foundation.

Nanolaser

A carpet of nanotubes designed to transmit light.

Radioactive Eating Microbes

Microbes 2 miles beneath the surface of the Earth, far from the energy of the sun, subsist on chemical reactions from radioactive rocks and water. Digitally rendered for the National Science Foundation.

Frictionless Movement

Researchers briefly attained frictionless motion with a spinning Cyanide molecule in water. Digitally rendered for the National Science Foundation.

Nanotube Sensor Chips to Detect Disease

Chips with nanotubes attached bound to antibodies for specific diseases could be a fast screening test for disease. Digitally rendered for CR magazine.

Cybernet works and CyberSecurity

Mars Signs of Life

Scientists searching for life look for specific chemical signatures that are either necessary, or unique to organic life forms. Digitally rendered for USC Alumni Trojan magazine.

Future Computing and Sensor Technology

This illustration was drawn for the National Science Foundation to help describe the Cyber-Physical Systems program, working to help researchers integrate computer and sensor technology into the physical environment to improve safety and communication in the future.

The First Laser, the Ruby Laser

The ruby laser, so named because of the ruby crystal used, was the first working laser. Laser technology has since advanced, and has many modern technologies possible, from cutting-edge surgeries to DVDs and computers. This 3d drawing was created for Science News magazine's laser special edition.

Car Sensors Making Driving Safer

In the near future cars will be equipped with sensor technology that communicates between vehicles so that drivers, say, can be alerted with ample warning to a car breaking for a family of ducks crossing the road. This 3d illustration was created for the Department of Transportation.

Electrons Surfing a Plasma Wave

Physicists sent a laser pulse through plasma, and e- took the opportunity to surf the crest. This technology may help advance electron acceleration. 3d art drawn for Science News magazine.