Category Archives: Gadgets and Tech
As this world races to keep up its health quotients, it is more often than not the thought of how lazy and comfortable it has become seeps into the mind. Toyota known to make such wonderful cars has come with this unique technology to its next generation Prius range. The new range will feature the option for you to cool the heat in your car by the time you reach your car. It is by using the car’s battery to power remote activation of the air-conditioner. Up to three minutes before you get in the car, the car will be cooled down so that you don’t feel a heat wave hit you by opening the door and getting in.
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There was the solar powered cell phone and now there will be the kinetic energy – powered one. It is called the Kyocera and is capable of folding up like a wallet. The EOS phone consists of a soft, semi-rigid polymer skin surrounding a flexible low-energy OLED display. It also has this unique shape memory feature that allows its keys to pop up when in use and blend in with the surface during downtime. It is designed by industrial designer Susan McKinney. When the Kyocera EOS is folded it can be used as a normal phone and when unfolded it opens into a wide screen. It also apparently derives energy from human interaction.
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This is a beautiful concept. It is inspired by the sight of various bags of garbage piling in and on and on. And also, Armstrong’s first foot imprint on the moon. To explain – the Armstrong Bin, as it is called, is a compression dustbin designed by Sukwon Park and Sungwoo Park. This helps in increasing cleanness and convenience by reducing the use of garbage bags. What you do is, open the trash bin, put your garbage in it, close it. then using your foot, stamp on the top which has a foot imprint on it and then press it down. The garbage is compressed and you don’t have to change the bag until a few more of such moves.
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For people who use more laptop than air, this one may be of interest and also help in saving the environment. The Modulus is an eco friendly sustainable laptop designed by industrial designer Ed Boaden. This laptop can assemble and disassemble various parts using the snap fittings and it opens in such a way that facilitates better air flow under the laptop helping to keep it cool. The hinged design also enables you to just lift up the cover so access to the internal components is not a problem either. Repairing is also made easier and more cost effective. Instead of replacing the entire set, you need to only replace the individual component.
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Bathroom fittings are a designers dream as there are so many ideas that can be formed that you wouldn’t mind spending so much time thinking of your neighbour’s loo. Join is this cool bathroom sink which is made of 100 per cent recycled materials. It is also very attractive. It has an extended hand that has a towel holder so that you don’t have to always scourge the wall for the towel. And so it’s the union of the towel rail and the sink that gave its very obvious name – Join. This concept is designed by Melissa Vilar for Sanindusa and the sink is made of china.
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Here is an eco-composter. A composter is an object used for composting. Composting is the natural speeding process where ‘microorganisms break down complex organic matter into simple, nutritious topsoil’. It is an old fashioned style object that is coming back into use as the fears of global warming rises. The eco-composter tumbler has a capacity of 71 gallons and is made of 100 per cent recycled materials. The tumbler breaks down fresh material in the shortest amount of time to create rich black soil. The spherical shape and special base allows the object to rotate easily in any direction for easy mixing. A patented internal air tube system allows an open flow of air from the outside, directly into the center of the composting material. It can also be used in all weather conditions.
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No more worries on your phone dying while you are stuck in traffic or worse your car dying after you painfully try to charge your phone and so on. The mobile emergency cell phone charger is portable, powerful and light weight. It weighs only 2 and a half ounces and puts out power greater than a plug-in charger. Just three minutes of charging at 120 rpm/min with this Sidewinder replacement equals over 3-5 minutes of talk time, even more standby time.
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Here is a radio that comes with two grid-free power features. One is solar powered and the other is crank handle power. The Eton by customer emergency crank radio also has AM/FM, weather radio receiver and a built-in flashlight. It comes in four colors – blue, black, green and orange. The radio is on offer at $30.
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Everyone’s doing it, even blood mobiles. Redlands-based American Custom Coach unveiled the ‘first solar-powered bloodmobile in the country’. Community Blood Bank of Palm Springs designed the vehicle using 3D computer models. The vehicle has solar panels that will help cut electricity consumption by 50 percent and was built on a crew-cab truck chassis and has side walls that slide out, like a motorhome. The bloodmobile’s wireless computer system, appliances, refrigerators and lights will run off solar power. The blood bank staff has estimated that they could collect 10 units of blood an hour in the new vehicle.
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A trend is good as long as it doesn’t become a habit which normally tends to ruin things. A new cellphone has been introduced called the Aqua Liquid cellphone which uses liquid fuel cells technology. This is meant to be eco friendly and low on pollutants although it lowers the efficiency of the phone. Also everything about this phone is apparently recyclable. The phone has an E-Ink display which is a little hard to understand but might mean that it uses only one hundredth of the normal LCD power and will help in the phone not switching off in mid-conversations.
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