Ekokook Kitchen System. Friday, 29 January 2010 GreenMuze Staff The Ekokook Kitchen System by Faltazi. The ingenious Ekokook concept kitchen system from French design house Faltazi processes, at the point of origin, all the waste generated in the kitchen. To accomplish this feat the Ekokook uses three built-in micro-processing plants for recycling organic kitchen waste, reusing water and processing solid materials. “Ekokook grew out of an experimental approach based on the analysis of the nerve centre of every home: the kitchen,” explain the designers of their work. “The place where we store food and prepare food, and produce and evacuate wastes is a vital core area for exchanges and convergences.
It is also a place that generates all sorts of pollution. In the Ekokook kitchen all non-organic waste is stored in five separate units for processing glass, paper, plastics, metals and miscellaneous waste. An earthworm composter breaks down all the organic waste generated in the kitchen. Visit: iRing design concept by Victor Soto | Kontrast blog - Kontrast M. 'Sound bullets' inspired by Newton's toy target cancer - The Tim. World’s First Chlorophyll Organic Battery Runs on Any Liquid : C. Professor Chungpin Hovering Liao of National Formosa University in Taiwan has created the world’s first chlorophyll organic battery. The battery can use any liquid—even urine—to power up. It doesn’t take much time to start juicing the battery, either.
Within 10 seconds of being doused with liquid, the battery starts providing power. The battery’s flexibility does come with a catch: it only produces half the power of a conventional battery . But its power generation capabilities are still formidable—the chlorophyll battery reportedly can store more energy than Japan’s water-powered fuel cells. Professor Liao’s battery also has the low production cost of NT$1 to NT$2 (US$.03 to US$.06). And unlike conventional batteries, it doesn’t contain toxic substances.
Stay tuned for more info about the invention—Liao is currently in the process of applying for patents in Taiwan and the United States. Photo Credit: Taiwan News Tags: chlorophyll battery, liao, national formosa university, taiwan, US. Samsung's Blue Earth is First Solar-Powered All-Touchscreen Cell. Samsung's Blue Earth is the first solar-powered all-touchscreen smartphone. The device even takes energy saving a bit further with a built-in "eco-mode" system. This system sets low screen backlight brightness and duration with a single click, and switches the Bluetooth module into a special "low consumption" mode. There's also a built-in pedometer and some associated software that translates the distance you've walked into equivalent CO2 savings versus making the journey in a vehicle--it even presents the data in the number of trees you've saved.
The real jewel though is its solar panel, that takes up the rear face of the phone. It's powerful enough to let users "call anytime anywhere. " Meanwhile the body of the phone is made of a material called "PCM," a plastic made from recovered water bottles--much like the much more conventional-looking, but similarly eco-friendly Nokia Renew available from T-Mobile recently. [via Akihabaranews] England's Football Stars Sleeping in Oxygen Deprivation Tents to. Athletic training needs a 21st-century twist when World Cup glory is on the line, and especially when the main event of football (soccer for U.S. folk) takes place in high-altitude South Africa this summer.
That means some members of England's star football squad will catch their shuteye inside special altitude tents designed to acclimate their body to the lower-oxygen conditions, according to the Daily Mail. Tests showed that some of England's footballers had more difficulty coping with the thinner air at the high altitudes for six of the 10 World Cup stadiums. That select group would spend eight to 10 hours per night for three to four weeks inside the altitude tents, so that their body can produce more red blood cells to compensate for carrying oxygen to their muscles. Each hypoxic generator flushes 100 liters of air per minute through the tents at a set altitude. Other national competitors for the World Cup have also reportedly adopted the same practice.
Banana Bunker. iTheater portable video glasses. By Mike You want a big screen TV with surround sound, but there’s just no room. That’s no problem, get yourself a pair of iTheater video glasses. Yes, I said glasses and they only weigh 3 ounces. Essentially, the iTheater is a personal entertainment center that you wear as if they were glasses. You get great video and audio quality, too. The video is at a 230,000 pixel resolution and the audio is surround sound. There’s really no limit as to what you can watch, either. The iTheater comes with a portable power source, along with two AA batteries that will run for about 6 – 8 hours of viewing.
The only downside about the iTheater is how weird you’d look in public using these, even on an airplane. The iTheater video glasses are available from Amazon from $100. Home | Element Four. Austal 102 Trimaran nears completion. The Austal 102 Trimaran has impressed during sea trials Image Gallery (6 images) After first leaving terra firma in December 2009, Austal's next-gen 102-meter trimaran is now nearing completion. The company says the vessel has impressed during sea trials this year, achieving a speed of 39 knots at 90% MCR (maximum continuous rating) with 340 tonnes deadweight. View all The Australian company's patented trimaran hullform enables the high-speed ferry to negotiate big waves while using less power - and therefore less fuel - and maintaining passenger comfort. The Austal 102 can carry 1165 passengers, 254 cars and has a 630 nautical mile range. For further info see Austal or read our feature on the trimaran and interview with Tony Armstrong, Austal’s head of R&D.
Post a CommentRelated Articles Just enter your friends and your email address into the form below For multiple addresses, separate each with a comma Privacy is safe with us because we have a strict privacy policy. iBasket by Guopeng Liang. Hamper is the Washing Machine I fail at managing laundry. I have way too many clothes. When I am ready to wash, it’s an all day affair dragging heavy baskets to and from the washer/dryer.
I’m not saying I’m too busy or lazy. I just want a simpler solution and I think designer Guopeng Liang is on to something with his iBasket concept. It’s a hamper/washer/dryer. Designer: Guopeng Liang. Solar Power Generating Blimp for Disasters. Written by Hank Green on 14/05/08 We've been reminded in recent weeks that the world is a vulnerable place. First as many as 100,000 killed in the cyclone in Burma, and now 12,000 feared dead after an earthquake in China. But as we've seen over and over again, sometimes disaster response is even more important than being prepared for the disaster. How do you take care of hundreds of thousands of disaster refugees? It's not like you can plop down a coal power plant and fire it up wherever it's needed.
Or can you? Andrew Leinonen has put together a strong concept design for an airship covered in solar panels that can be flown into a disaster area, anchored in, and immediately begin to serve power to the rescue effort. Though the airships are small by blimp standards, only 20 m long, they can house about 120 square meters of CIGS solar cells, producing up to 125 kWh / day. Skyscraper Creates All Its Own Energy — MetaEfficient Reviews. Nanowires create volts of electricity › News in Science (ABC Sci. News in Science Monday, 26 April 2010 Eric BlandDiscovery News Every move you make, every step you take, you could soon be generating electricity according to a group of scientists in the United States.
By cramming 20,000 nanowires into three square centimetres, scientists from Georgia Tech's Nano Research Group have created the world's first device powered solely by piezoelectric materials. A piezoelectric material is something that, when pushed or pulled, generates a mild electrical charge. The researchers at Georgia Tech hope within three to five years piezoelectric nanowires, woven into a cotton shirt or housed in a shoe heel, could charge a cell phone or laptop battery after even a short walk. "This is a key step to designing technology that will be useful in the near future," says Professor Zhong Lin Wang co-author of two new papers in Nature Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials.
Squeezing out volts Greater potential Other scientists are enthusiastic about the new nanowires. Video: Perching Drones Learn How to Land Vertically on Walls | P. High-rise dwellers and office workers might someday see aerial drones join the usual pigeons and other birds perched outside their windows. Stanford University's Biomimetics Laboratory has video footage of tests with fixed-wing drones landing on walls and grappling on with their leg spines, as Botjunkie discovered. Future micro aerial vehicles capable of perching on buildings could take the opportunity to recharge or simply ride out bad weather. They could also use the landing as a chance to crawl or creep closer to a window for better observation, or simply hang out and conduct surveillance on the area for days or weeks.
Stanford researchers decided to go the simple route by figuring out how a fixed-wing, non-transforming drone could still land on walls. Landing legs consisted of a carbon-fiber tibia and a carbon and balsa-wood femur, along with urethane foam. Takeoff is a more simple matter of throttling up and then retracting the spines for inverted liftoff. [via Botjunkie] SOLAR CELLS THE SIZE OF GLITTER. Our tax dollars paid for something useful. Sandia National Laboratories has invented the photovoltaic cells seen above. They have a solar-to-electricity efficiency of almost 15% and are made of crystalline silicon, meaning they can produce the same energy as most standard photovoltaic cells. They have about the same diameter as glitter and about one-fourth the thickness of a human hair. Conventional photovoltaic cells are flat, inflexible wafers measuring 6″ x 6″.
These new glitter-sized photovoltaic cells can be mounted on flexible and curved surfaces, like buildings, clothing, and tents. I wonder how many guys on that research team have said: “I look like I’m covered in glitter? [Sandia.gov via io9] I want more like this! Ingenious Cardboard Packaging Folds to Fit Parcels of Any Shape. Excessive packaging is one of our top pet peeves here at Inhabitat, so we were really inspired by this flat cardboard sheet that is capable of conforming to the shape of any object, saving a bundle on wasteful filler. Designed by Patrick Sung, the packaging design concept features triangulated perforations that allow it to bend around odd forms.
This could also save on fuel for shipping, since all of that wasted box filler is eliminated. We could see how the concept would not be the most practical for all applications, but it could be really great for mailing a surprise gift to a friend! Soft items like clothing or shoes, or even products that are rigid, like a funky reusable water bottle, could be perfect for this packaging. Not to mention that the perforated lines give the package an interesting graphic pattern style. Sung has branded his concept the UPACKS (Universal Packaging System) .
+ Patrick Sung. Printer Pencil by Hoyoung Lee. Printing With A Pencil Stub So you don’t want to join pencil stubs and make a long pencil. No worries, we have another alternative, how about using them to print on paper. Yes, like a printer that uses pencil to print your documents. Traditional don’t you think?
I feel the concept gets even more radical because it proposes the use of eraser to erase off mistakes! Cipher - Drinking glass. Psychic. | relogik.com. Project info Type:Personal, conceptField:Product designDate:Feb, 2009Phase:Concept, Visual prototypeShare: twitter facebook delicious digg stumbleupon friendfeed tumblr Awards / Publications:2009 - reddot design award winner 2009Info / Description:An empty glass resembles a meaningless colorful mosaic, until a liquid is poured into it, revealing its name.
Each side of the glass is reserved for a specific drink. … moreThe Dekrypt glass though complex in appearance in fact runs on a very simple idea. Differently colored shapes are scattered across the glass surface in a seemingly random pattern, however their position is hardly accidental. Other projects. Flying Chair. Lego printer introduces itself to the world | Crave. Check out this video of a home-brew printer designed and built entirely by some guy on the B3ta forum. He rigged together a sensor, a USB interface with a wiring board, and a series of analog motor electronics to put together the device that can legibly spell out whatever he wants, in this case the existential message "HELLO WORLD," although since it uses a printer driver to put ink on paper, it should also spell out "LOW INK LEVEL, PLEASE REPLACE AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN.
" For more detailed information, check out a list of FAQs with the inventor after the jump. FAQ: Track name? "Christopher and Raphael just popper Shinichi Osawa distortion disco edit" FAQ: Are you using some sort of MCU demo board (the black pcb)? FAQ: DPI? FAQ: How long did this take? FAQ: Open source, schematics etc. FAQ: PPM? FAQ: Wrote your own driver? FAQ: Mac vs PC abuse. FAQ: Felt tip damage drying up? FAQ: Full color version/more colors?
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