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As concepts go, PH Conditioner Skyscraper is quite up there riding the crazy train. Perhaps not really a crazy train but it does take some interesting liberties. Well, if those things didn’t exist, the world of concepts and designs would get way too bland, minus the colors of imagination. Designed by Hao Tian, Huang Haiyang [...]

Windmills, while a beautiful and wonderful source of renewable energy, come in a package that is not very attractive. The spinning blades aren’t that good for birds, they are noisy, and overall, the maintenance costs can be quite high. For a lot of people, these are the prime reasons that turn them off windmills. With [...]

We love green! And how cool would it be to have a house that would be covered in enough plants to be a garden in itself? Theoretically, great. Practically, it would suck. In concept form, it is fabulous. Here’s the botanical house by Makoto Azuma.

Poop. Taking a very shitty philosophical road, we can say there’s quite a weird persona about the whole act of excretion. Anything about poop has the power to attract attention, undesired or not. For our present purpose though, the idea seems to be an interesting one. The act of flushing the toilet is generally quite [...]

Here we are with old street signs converted into furniture. Now that happens to be a very novel idea, although we are not really fans of the execution. The furniture by California based designer Tim Delger sounds really cool in principle. Then, you go ahead and take a look at it, and well, it isn’t [...]

Quite a few portions of the world live without having access to power. It so happens that these parts also tend to be the ones where common luxuries like washing machines are difficult, if not impossible to attain for the majority of the populace. GiraDora by design students Alex Cabunoc and Ji A You is [...]

Innovation is always welcome, even if it be a wee tiny step in the direction. Allow that to be our reason for finding this LED Lantern interesting. For its power source, the lantern requires 350cc of salt water with a 3-5% salinity. Obtaining that shouldn’t be a problem on most of our planet. This salt [...]

A simple opening of the tap could become an energy generating activity, if the ES Pipe Waterwheel designed by Korean innovator Ryan Jongwoo Choi goes through. The design envisions water taps fitted with tiny hydel power generators. Waterwheels can be attached to any standard water piping, all it requires is that the Waterwheel be screwed [...]

Nature wraps fruits and vegetables beautifully for us to eat. Learning from the same principle, a team of researchers in France led by Dr David Edwards have created a packaging they call Wiki Cells. On principle, the packaging provides an outer protective, edible layer to food similar to what you might find in fruits and [...]

This is wind power at work, at its very finest. And it seems to be very green, and very interesting. AIRE uses energy from the user’s breath to turn tiny wind turbines that apparently generate enough energy to charge a mobile phone. Designed by Paulo Lammoglia, the system has a mask as a primary component.