Posts Tagged ‘environment’
Blood Powered Lamp
Somewhat weird, but interesting at the same time this one. Designer Mike Thompson has created a lamp which is powered by blood. For the lamp to work you have to break of the top, and drop in a special tablet and some of your own blood and voila. The lamp lights up.
The idea behind it [...]
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Tags: blood, environment, lamp, light, mike thompson, powered
BMW has presented a new concept car, the Vision EfficientDynamics Concept. Although I still have to get used to the cutting edge design, the car is pretty impressive.
The car has been entirely stripped of excess weight by using ultralight materials. This combined with a hybrid engine, this car has the same performance numbers as an [...]
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Tags: BMW, car, Concept, EfficientDynamics, environment, future, Vision
When people grow out of a sweater, it gets passed on to their younger brother or it gets a new life with someone
they don’t know. Glass is recycled to make new bottles. Used plastic turns up in mobile phones. Over the last
couple of years more and more companies have come up with ideas to find [...]
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Tags: advertising, book, creative, environment, innovation, japanese stab binding, lingotto, recycling, restructive, THEY, waste paper
Grain Surfboards
For me just the look of one of these Grain Surfboards is enough for me. Don’t they look great? However, the fact that the production of these boards puts less strain on the environment than your average plastic board does, makes them even cooler.
Grain Surfboards began in the basement of a home minutes from the [...]
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Tags: Brad Anderson, environment, grain, Mike LaVecchia, surfboards, surfing, wetsuit, whaleshark, wood
Earth’s changing face
The last decade we have been changing the face of our planet rapidly. NASA has captured this change trough their Earth Observatory. The following movies reveal how fast things are changing. Unfortunately most of these changes can be regarded as deterioration…
The urbanisation of Dubai
These people have been building like mad-men the past decade as you [...]
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Tags: aral sea, changing, drought, dubai, earth, earth observatory, environment, iraq, lake powell, mesopotamia, mesopotamian marshlands, nasa*, saddam, utah
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