When it comes to rolling in the wind, the portable turbine by Uprise Energy has a mind of its own. The 50kW Portable Power Center is humble enough to quietly fit into a standard 40′ ISO shipping container, which makes it’s transport to a location easier and more manageable. In wind speeds up to 12mph, the turbine can power 15 homes, and the number rapidly climbs to 71 once the wind speed reaches 20mph.
Everybody with a heart loves snow globes, because they’re freaking magnificent. It so happens that the snow globe represents another cool phenomenon, which is the natural cycle and the lovely snowfall. Lovely things like that happen to be at a risk due to Climate change and all the evils it brings in its train. Very well knowing the consequences, the world still continues to fire coal powered plants and towards building new ones.
While most of the world was throwing away the cardboard-like central piece of toilet papers, artist Junior Fritz Jacquet was busy collecting them and molding them into face-like visages that might as well work as masks. Clearly, the flexibility, or lack thereof of these roles doesn’t make them an ideal piece, but the rustic visages do hold some charm.
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 a drain on perfectly usable water most of which ended into the sewers at the pull of a lever, and apparently for no good reason at all.
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 so cool anymore.
These soda bottles might never be able to atone for their environmental costs, but it is always good to see them try hard to do that. Multidisciplinary design firm Rosenbaum and TV producer Luciano Huck of Brazil got together for a “partnership” they call Home Sweet Home (Lar Doce Lar).
Land Rover has just electrified the classic defender, showing up seven examples ready for the Geneva Motor Show. The electric defender has big claims on power; it can pull 12 tons of weight through a 13 percent grade and can tackle water depths of up to three feet. Now that, is impressive.
Angel Falls, Venezuela is the highest waterfall in the world. Many of our readers might also recognize it as the inspiration behind Paradise Falls in the Pixar movie Up. Thanks to the modern world and technology, we can have a good look at these beautiful falls while sitting comfortably at our computers. Now that might not be the ideal way, but the charms of a 360 degree panorama are not easy to shrug off. Watch the full panorama at AirPano.
A little smart thinking can put many of the “written-off” items to good use, and to re-use. To put things in a simple manner, video game controllers gone to the wrong side would be most likely to spend out their life in a dump. But, as the work of Graeme Abraham shows, they still could be used in many ways.
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 being pitched as a solution to these very areas.
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