Petal Drops at Firebox.com description Fits neatly onto the bottle top Collecting rainwater makes perfect sense, but why do it with some ugly old bucket when you can use a few Petal Drops? Socially developed by our idea-hugging friends at Quirky.com, these 100% recycled flower-shaped funnels screw onto any standard threaded bottle, channelling water inside. Clever, eh? Yes, we know it rains all the time in dear old Blighty but you can use the collected rainwater to feed thirsty houseplants, fill your water pistol or refresh rain-dodging window boxes without bothering the tap. Recycle plastic bottles As well as their practical, planet-hugging uses, Petal Drops will add a suitably quirky look wherever you choose to place them.
Air Umbrella by Je Sung Park & Yanko Design Try Air To Stay Dry Back in May last year I did a roundup of the Most Unconventional Umbrellas seen here on YD. I wish I had stumbled across the Air Umbrella then, because it’s the mother of unconventional designs! Imagine an umbrella with no canopy! The barrier between you and the raindrops is a sheet of steady air that is blown out by this hollow pipe. Physics and a lot of engineering stuff is clogging my brains to accept this design, but if I put these dark clouds of doubt out of the way, we may have something in this concept. You can control the length of the stick and the size of the air canopy. Designers: Je Sung Park & Woo Jung Kwon
Richard Proenneke Life[edit] Proenneke's father, William Christian Proenneke, served in World War I and later made his living as a well driller. His mother, Laura (née Bonn) was a homemaker. His parents married in late 1909, or early 1910, and had three daughters and three sons: Robert, Helen, Lorene, Richard (Dick), Florence, and Raymond (Jake). The year of Richard's birth is often given as 1917, but social security and census records prove him to have been born in Primrose, Harrison Township, Lee County, Iowa, on May 4, 1916. For several years, he worked as a heavy equipment operator and repairman on the Naval Air Station at Kodiak. Retirement[edit] Proenneke's cabin. The cabin is hand-made. Proenneke remained at Twin Lakes for the next sixteen months, when he left to go home for a time to visit relatives and secure more supplies. Death and legacy[edit] The Early Years: The Journals of Richard L. See also[edit] References[edit] Bibliography[edit] External links[edit]
Make Your Own Pop Bottle Drip Irrigation System | You Grow Girl The last time I forgot to water my outdoor potted plants and discovered them completely wilted and hanging on the cusp of near death, I decided it was time to take action. Some of the plants on my deck receive a full, searing sun all day long during the hottest mid summer days. While these plants thrive under such conditions if properly taken care of, they will die quickly if they don’t receive enough water. Although it has been unusually rainy this year in these parts, full sun deck plants will still get extremely hot and dry very quickly. One of the best ways to provide a steady water supply to your plants without your constant attention is the gradual watering system or drip irrigation. Through this method a device is employed that slowly delivers water into the soil directly around the roots. The materials you will need are as follows: 2 litre plastic soda bottle or water bottle that still has the lidDrill and small drill bitSharp knifeCutting surface
Sony Nextep Computer Concept for 2020 by Hiromi Kiriki & Yanko Design - StumbleUpon In 2020 We Can Wear Sony Computers On Our Wrist Our present need for internet connectivity is so profound that secondary devices like the Nextep Computer are bound to happen. Developed to be worn as a bracelet, this computer concept is constructed out of a flexible OLED touchscreen. Earmarked for the year 2020, features like a holographic projector (for screen), pull-out extra keyboard panels and social networking compatibility, make the concept plausible.
Bridge to Nature: Amazing Indian Living Root Bridges In most parts of the world, when a bridge is needed it is built from wood, steel or concrete. But in Cherrapunji in northeastern India, the locals are much more patient. They simply coax nearby trees to grow into natural bridges. The Ficus elastica is a type of rubber tree with extremely strong roots. Cherrapunji is often credited as being the wettest place on earth. The bridges are made by using a root-guidance system. (all images via: Atlas Obscura) It can take upwards of ten or fifteen years for the root bridges to really take root and become strong enough to use, but they are certainly worth the wait.
Brilliant Recycling Idea I am always looking for innovative recycling ideas and look what I found! A screen made of soda bottle bottoms - I use empty water bottles to aid watering in my planted containers. Cut off the bottoms, unscrew and remove the lid.Place the bottle in the container to be planted with the screw top down.Add peat moss inside the bottle and then surround the bottle with potting mix to hold upright. Add plant material and you have a reservoir for water that places the water at the root level where plants really need it. Try this it really helps containers stay moist at the root level decreasing the need for daily watering during the hot Summer months. The bottle is at the soil level and the plants cover it so you would never know it was there - but your containers will look marvelous! Lovely flowers strung together look so great. Wouldn't this be a fun light cover?! Did you know that 8 out of every 10 empty water bottles end up in landfills or incinerators? Look how great the screen looks outside!
Crash: A Tale of Two Species - The Benefits of Blue Blood - Horseshoe Crabs | Nature It fuels the journeys of shorebirds along the Eastern Seaboard and feeds some loggerhead sea turtles and sharks. The horseshoe crab is intricately woven into the web of life. Yet this harmless and primitive sea creature not only plays a key role in nature, it occupies a crucial place in the human world as well. Over three decades ago, medicine claimed this ancient animal as a new life-saving tool. The simplicity of its immune system is actually what makes the crab’s blood useful to our biomedical industry. LAL’s endotoxin binding and clotting ability is what makes it so invaluable to our own pharmaceutical industry. Today, LAL has become the worldwide standard screening test for bacterial contamination. Horseshoe crab blood has not only become a key weapon in our medical arsenal, it has also become big business. Of course, to obtain LAL you need horseshoe crabs — and lots of them. LAL manufacturers have measured mortality rates of less then 3%.
Would You Live in a Shipping Container? Adam Kalkin isn't the only architect to make homes out of shipping containers. A handful of architects, including Jennifer Siegal and Lot-Ek, began using them ten years ago as a gritty reaction against the tidy white surfaces of modernism. But nobody has employed shipping containers more inventively than Kalkin, a New Jersey architect and artist who has used them to design luxurious homes, museum additions, and refugee housing. In architectural circles, Kalkin is regarded as something of an oddball. His talk this week was tied to the publication of Quik Build: Adam Kalkin's ABC of Container Architecture ($49.95), which shows 32 of his projects in all their odd ingenuity, including Bunny Lane, a home he built for himself with a 19th century clapboard cottage inside an industrial hanger, and the Push Button House, a furnished room that unfolds from a container with hydraulic walls. For all his artsy provocations, Kalkin's strategy makes some practical sense.
Eco-Friendly Blossoms By Michelle Brand Look closely! Yes way! Michelle Brand, an eco-designer from Manchester in the UK, repurposes the bottoms of discarded plastic soda bottles to create these breathtakingly beautiful decorative light fixtures, lamp shades, curtains, room dividers, and more. Ingenious and quite stunning, don’t you agree? From plastic bottle to blossoms, garlands and fairy lights, it’s up-cycling at its best! From the pics, it looks like she uses a clothing tag attacher gun for connecting the pieces– much easier than punching individual holes and threading the bottoms with fishing line!! { image credits }