It’s here in concept and I simply love it! The Tanning Printer is a solar powered printer that doesn’t use cartridges. Instead it uses the process of sun-tanning the paper! You got that right sir…sun tan! It seems outlandish right now, but trust me the idea is worth exploring… the design is here, it [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…]
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…]
A product design is not just an isolated object, but also the complex network of relationships that constitute it for what it will be understood in context. This work wants to build a network of environmental sustainability and putting the individual at the center of this network.
The [Read More…]
Eco Factor: Solar powered water collector and purifier.
With more than a billion people on our planet still striving hard for fresh water, industrial designers have started thinking of new ways to quench the thirst of these individuals using natural resources. Designers Chun Yen Tsao and Hsing- [Read More…]
It is this kind of truly remarkable invention can (and did) get a student designer like Emily Cummins an invitation to visit with the Queen of England. It looks like an unassuming mixed-material cylinder, but conceals the astonishing ability to transform rays from the sun into vital food-cooling [Read More…]
Eco Factor: Newly built training facility utilizes solar heating for its operations.
The newly built Tesseract Building at A Wrinkle in Thyme Farm will now utilize rooftop solar panels to supply hot water for washing and dyeing the wool from the farm’s Angora goats. All this was made possible b [Read More…]
Solar panels have been around for quite a few years now, but like any great technology, it takes hundreds of iterations before it catches on as a perfectly suitable solution to masses of everyday problems. Here’s another piece in that great puzzle. Nectar Design’s made a fabulously pretty set of pla [Read More…]
Solar lampion consisting of 36 small solar panels that make up the lantern design. This is the last version made for presentations of milan and published for the first time.
This solar lampion are not as many solar lamps that you ‘plant’ in your garden and then left without supervision. They s [Read More…]
The concept of Blinds doubling up as Solar Powered Window Air Conditioner is not new, but there is something that makes Briz tad different. Briz uses water as a coolant; water runs through both tubes beneath the bottom part of the blinds emitting dry mist. As water evaporates, it absorbs the heat th [Read More…]
What is life without color and what is design without innovation? Addressing the two is the Hélio DAB Radio. The design uses colorful solar Grätzel panels that are transparent and add a bit of psychedelic creativity to the room. The Grätzel solar panels get their color from vegetal ink, upping the g [Read More…]
