The team from Elledecor, New Zealand, came up with a very nice idea that could be used as a gift for Christmas.
Search through your office or go to the nearest home accessories market to find cardboard boxes. Best to be unicolor and different sizes (that’s a must!). Get some double-side adhesive t [Read More…]
Landscape designers Earthscape have opened up their studio in Beppu, Japan, to present their experiments with growing native plants in water from local hot springs.
Earthscape hope the On-iku experiment will confirm their suspicions that water from the hot springs has some sort of power that [Read More…]
Dwindling energy resources, mounting waste, and environmental damage are all issues that designers are faced with in today’s modern world. They are also the main issues explored by the most recent Philips Design Probes project. Set up to explore future lifestyle scenarios, the Probes projects are [Read More…]
Taking jam sessions to another level is the idea of recycling discarded, useless Compact Disks as weights for dumbbells. Before you laugh off the idea, here is something we can consider…many women don’t use heavy weights for their workouts, and an average CD weighs about .15 grams. Combining a handf [Read More…]
Estonian sculptor Mati Karmin creates mind blowing furniture made out from sea mines. In his works there is something medieval, extremely brutal. Sculptor finds mines on the shore of the island Naissaar, located in the Gulf of Finland, not far from Tallinn. This is former military facility, mines re [Read More…]
Ladies & gents, let’s be totally candid for a sec & talk about… you guessed it, potty-time! Did you know that the standard toilet uses 15x more drinking water per day than a human does? Sure, low-flush toilets & dry urinals help reduce consumption, but what else can be done to conserve w [Read More…]
There’s more than meets the eye to these amazing-looking pieces of garden furniture: They’re actually solar power stations.
Unveiled at MIT’s 150th Anniversary Festival of Art, Science and Technology, they’re the brainchild of Professor Sheila Kennedy and her team, who dubbed them “Soft Rockers [Read More…]
If you usually face extreme winter weather conditions these "Rechargeable heated insoles" are just what you need. They are the world’s first wireless rechargeable heated foot insoles. They measure the temperature of your foot and only deliver heat when you need it. When you’re feet are wa [Read More…]
Rajib Mallick, a professor from Worcester Polytechnic Institute developing anti-freezing pipeline, filled with liquid in it.
The pipe will be planted on the roadways and absorb heat from the sun then stored in insulated chamber. The liquid in the pipe when heated would be released to melt exist [Read More…]
To build a big wind power generator needed a large enough space to put many large-sized turbines.
Designer Francesco Colarossi, Giovanna Saracino and Luisa Saracino have a solution for this problem by utilizing the empty space below the flyover. This concept is called “Solar Wind.”
Rather tha [Read More…]
Created by alvidesign, alvisilkchair is an eco friendly seating furniture with silk thread tightened around an oak frame. It is a sweet piece of furniture that looks like amazing work of art. It will create additional interest to any interior.
Transparent expression is in focus, which create ne [Read More…]
