Category Archives: Other Stuff
Maybe your childhood fantasy of riding a Pegasus has been long forgotten. Well, this winged horse sure won’t take you to La La Land. What fascinates us is the way it powers up! The little build-it-yourself Pegasus is powered by the sun. All you need is a bunch of the usual pliers and tools you’ll have fallen around your car shed. The little solar powered batteries included with the Pegasus power it up and give it life. Measuring around 96 x 235 x 172mm , this one shifts shapes and turns into three arrangements, a winged Pegasus flying high in the sky, a circus horse riding around and around in circles and a horse and carriage.
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We all make those occasional trips to the sink to wash and rinse our hands below streams of water flowing out of faucets. This simple act of hygiene does at most times waste precious liters of water. To help conserve water, the new Hansgrohe Metris line includes five eco-friendly faucets that look great and work well too. The models basically vary in height and use the EcoSmart technology that automatically regulates water consumption to a maximum 5 liters per minute. This helps reduce total water consumption by a good 60%. The faucets with their different heights can be used for different functions; with the high-spout designs for filling jus and bigger utensils and the short one’s that work great to wash your hands.
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Kids grow. That’s a gospel truth. And they outgrow their clothes and the cute furniture you purchased a short while ago real quickly. And this does usually lead to waste, with you throwing away all the outgrown furniture. So, here’s a bit of kid furniture that you can dispose-off easily. No more buying of plastic furniture that you’ll have dumped soon. This easy-to-assemble furniture set is made of cardboard and can be put together without any glue or adhesive. Once complete, the furniture can take weights of up to 315lbs for the table and 750lbs for the stools. We’re pretty sure your kid doesn’t weigh that much though, making this a sturdy, light-weight and eco-friendly furniture for you constantly growing child.
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Ahead in time, robots will soon boast an advanced super-intelligent skin system. The skin designed by a Stanford researcher Zhenan Bao can sense touch, sense chemicals and soak up energy from the sun too, making it almost-similar to human skin. Using a stretchable solar cell system that can expand and shrink along two different axes, the development could help develop clothing and human prosthetic limbs with some pretty cutting-edge technology ahead. This technological development will help the bots who’ll pretty soon end up doing our bidding in the future to power up constantly with solar energy.
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A garden you just can’t walk on the grass at, this vertical garden set up in an office building does everything the usual horizontal one’s do, keep the air clean and add a touch of beauty. You can’t walk around it though, not unless you’ve got suction cups for feet. Set up by Urbanarbolism in collaboration with Paisajismo Urbano, this indoor vertical garden in Elche, Spain, stands three stories high and is considered to be Spain’s largest. The garden clears the office air and keeps away indoor pollutants. Located in the courtyard of the office, the beautiful garden is just a peek away from the office windows, meeting rooms and the main entrance hall.
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You might’ve turned your faces away and crinkled your noses before after walking across an over-flowing garbage bin that has, by far, surpasses its appetite. Well here are some garbage bins with mammoth-like appetites that can swallow a lot more than an ordinary garbage bin can. Using solar energy, the Big Belly Bins, an appropriate name indeed, crush the garbage tossed inside, making way for more-than-usual amounts of garbage. This certainly helps reduce emissions on an indirect level, reducing the amount of garbage collection rounds required, subsequently saving up on fuel costs too! These do cost a bit more though, £3,000 for a regular bin size as opposed to the usual £1,000, but with increased capacities, they sure have a load of benefits!
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Shuffle through the pages here and you’re sure to come across a bunch load of information on the gospel truth that paper is indeed safer to the environment and is a better option than plastic bags. Recently, we stumbled across a report that sure left us with dented skulls, written out by Chris Edwards and Jonna Meyhoff Fry at the behest of the U.K. Environment Agency, claiming plastic bags to be safer than the ever-green paper bag. Surprised? So were we! According to the report, ordinary plastic bags are 200 times more climate-friendly and emit one-third of the carbon dioxide of paper bags. The study also goes ahead to report a silly argument that plastic bags being lighter, are a lot greener than paper bags.
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The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission’s sparkling new office is loaded with all those green features you could probably think of and more. Seated in the middle of the office building’s lobby is a green sewage treatment plant. Now you probably might be crinkling your nose imagining the smell this one could cause. A fountain would probably be a better decoration, right? Well, this installation by Worrell Water Technologies is barely the sewage treatment plant you’ve been imagining. It looks beautiful and cleans up water fit for flushing purposes and such that can help the Commission save a good 750,000 gallons of water yearly.
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You might have heard of the Red Dot winner, the Natural Energy Park before. Now designer Theresa Ling working on a similar concept, has come up with a novel way to generate energy! We all know how energetic kids are. They run, scream, play, jump and yet never seem to tire. So, Ling thought of a way to innovatively convert all this energy into electricity. More like making a hamster run in a wheel to power a little light bulb, Ling’s Energy Harvesting Playground uses a prototype of an interactive see-saw powered by the kinetic energy of the see-saw’s up-and-down motion. A DC motor attached to the pivot point does the job of powering the LEDs. That’s not all. Designer Wendy Uhlman came up with the Powerleap Playground that harnesses kinetic energy from children’s movements.
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Here’s yet another list, this time rating the greenest city in Asia. Out of 21 cities taken into study, Singapore topped the list. The city’s energy and carbon emissions, land use and buildings, transportation, waste management, water management, sanitation, air quality and environmental governance was taken into consideration. Tokyo and Hong Kong were among the above average cities while Shanghai and Delhi stood in the average category. Mumbai, Bengaluru and Kolkata however were included in the below average with Karachi standing in the well below average category.
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Maybe your childhood fantasy of riding a Pegasus has been long forgotten. Well, this winged horse sure won’t take you to La La Land. What fascinates us is the way it powers up! The little build-it-yourself Pegasus is powered by the sun. All you need is a bunch of the usual pliers and tools you’ll have fallen around your car shed. The little solar powered batteries included with the Pegasus power it up and give it life. Measuring around 96 x 235 x 172mm , this one shifts shapes and turns into three arrangements, a winged Pegasus flying high in the sky, a circus horse riding around and around in circles and a horse and carriage.