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The Murakami chair’s attached lamp is powered by kinetic energy produced from the chair’s rocking back and forth—deliciously simple and elegant. Oh, and that lampshade? Not a lampshade. That’s the actual OLED light source, shaped like a lampshade.
The OLED lamp even senses when it’s light or dark out, and if it’s light, stores the energy [...]
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Tags: chairs, Design, designboom, kineticenergy, LED, murakami, OLED, rockingchair
energy aware clock by loove broms, karin ehrnberger, sara ilstedt hjelm, erika lundell, jin moen, 2006 – 2008
the energy aware clock is designed to make you aware of your energy consumption on a daily basis. the clock visualizes the daily energy rhythms of the household and reminds us of the ordinary kitchen clock in [...]
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Tags: brussels, Design, design vlaanderen, energy, GREEN, power, saving, visual voltage exhibition
The speculation about the concept’s powertrain has gone in several directions, almost all of which were correct. The new concept is a plug-in hybrid with a three-cylinder turbo-diesel engine. Conceived with the idea of melding the performance of a M3 with exceptionally low fuel consumption, BMW claims a 0-62 mph time of 4.8 seconds while [...]
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Tags: bmw, Car, concept car, Hybrid, plug-in hybrid, vision efficientdynamics
Philips Biosphere Home Farming
This Philips non-spherical-biosphere is a self-contained farm for that produces hundreds of calories of various food sources a day. Its five-level design breaks down like this:
Levels 1 and 2: Plants
Level 3: Algae
Level 4: Fish and Shrimp
Level 5: Organic Waste
From what we can tell, the system is designed to cascade nutrients from the top to the [...]
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Tags: biosphere, CONCEPTS, Design, GREEN, PHILIPS, PHILIPS BIOSPHERE
Rebuilding New Orleans is an ongoing effort and pitching into the concept-zone is the New Orleans Arcology Habitat or NOAH. Since the details on this structure are in-depth and plenty, lets plunge into them right away. NOAH proposes to be a habitat for 40,000 residents who can benefit from the planned residential units, school system, [...]
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Tags: Architecture, arcology habitat, building, eco-friendly, Environment, Future, new orleans, NOAH
In a perfect world we’d all be getting back to our zero energy, prefabricated homes by foot, bike or public transport, but on a planet where cars won’t be disappearing anytime soon, it’s nice to know that some car companies are trying to reduce their carbon footprint when producing new vehicles. In 2003 BMW set [...]
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Tags: Architecture, bmw, BMW welt, energy-efficient, production, welt
Mike and Maaike’s Autonomobile
In Possible Future Scenario #317-B, San Francisco industrial design firm Mike and Maaike presents the atnmbl ( “autonomobile”). Less a car than an autonomous, seven-person mobile living room, the atnmbl is billed as a complete redesign of the car for those who believe that the ideal driving experience is not driving.
Essentially [...]
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Tags: alternative, ANDROID, Android phone, atnmbl, Future, google, Google G1, Google phone, GREEN, industrial design
Car designer Harsha Vardhan has a different vision of tomorrow. While his vehicle calls for an electric engine, just like we see in cars now like the Prius or Volt, that engine drives magnetic fields, not wheels.
(The magnetic fields, of course, do eventually drive the wheels forward when the energy is transferred from over superconducting [...]
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Tags: CARS, CONCEPTS, ECO, ELECTRIC ENGINES, MAGNET, MAGNETIC CAR, VEHICLES
At the Geneva Motor Show in March, the gas-electric hybrid Essence made jaws drop with its commanding size, beautiful lines, and green-inspired 592-hp soul.
Unfortunately the Essence won’t make its way to production.
Infiniti’s voluptuous concept will make an appearance at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, where it’ll make the run the hill climb and be joined [...]
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Tags: Essence, gas electric hybrid, Infiniti
Solar tent
The tent produces enough electricity to power a small town and connects to the internet wirelessly.
Telecommunication firm Orange’s latest eco tent concept exploits photovoltaic fabric to produce energy without bulky, inflexible solar panels. This power feeds gadgets that are stored in a magnetic induction pouch, and also drives a flexible LCD screen with wireless internet.
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Tags: 3G tent, Camping, CELLPHONES, Orange, solar, Solar Power, Solar tent, Tents, Wireless
Designed by Benjamin Graindorge and Duende Studio, this tank not only looks nice, but uses some simple ingenuity to accomplish the task of water filtration.
Here’s how it works: nitrate-heavy water from your fish tank is pulled up into the garden, where it is passed over a layer of river sand, which uses bacteria to convert [...]
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Tags: concept, GREEN, Floating Garden, Fish Tanks, Aquariums
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Tags: Bills, Environment, GREEN, green tech, Green upgrades, Utilities
To combat the Sahara Desert’s ongoing growth, student Magnus Larsson has proposed a 6,000km wall that will be—wait for it—constructed by letting a bacterium have its way with the sand, forming sandstone.
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Tags: Architecture, Bacteria, Desertification, Magnus larsson, proposals, Sahara desert wall
How many years do we have left if the world consumes at the current rate? How about if we consume at half the current US rate? The answers are sobering.
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Tags: earth, energy, power, resources, sci
The idea of harnessing solar power from space has been around for a while; Asimov included it in at least two of his stories that I remember—but may finally be a reality come 2016.
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Tags: california, PG&E, solar, Solar Power, Solar space, solaren, SPACE, Space power
LightPot uses LED lights, and can collapse down on itself when not in use. Created by designers Studio Shulab, LightPot still a prototype, but they have big plans to bring this thing to store shelves soon.
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Tags: CONCEPTS, Design, GREEN, HOME, LAMPS, Lights, Plants, Studio Shulab
When the next step in the road to 35 mpg by 2020 CAFE standards was announced recently, those in the know made it clear that the Obama administration’s upcoming goal of 27.3 mpg by 2011 would not be hard for automakers to meet. In fact, the 2007 average was already 31.3, so the 2011 goal [...]
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Tags: cafe standards, california, mpg, obama
Sony fuel cell battery
Sony fuel cell battery can also be power by sugar, yes! you can even use coca-cola to power up this thing. The future is coming!
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Tags: Cell, charger, Fuel, Fuel Cell, methanol, sony
We all know alkaline batteries are really bad for the environment if you don
’t dispose of them properly. The right thing to do is send them to special recycling centers but hundreds of tons end up in landfills where their toxic innards seep into the earth… This idea is to encourage people to throw their [...]
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Tags: battery, energy seed, LED, light, recycle
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