Wind turbines are of big help in generating electricity especially to those places with large areas of land space. However, this time around, a compact wind turbine that will only require 3.5 acres of open land. This compact turbine is perfect for use to schools, hospitals, and hotels. With the Optiwind’s 150-kilowatt model, buildings with …
Category: Design and Concept
Wooden Carpet: Eco-friendly And Stylish Carpet by Elisa Stroyzk
Rugs are one of the most important things every household has. It will not only protect us from colds but will also create and artistic look to our place. However, German student designer Elisa Stroyzk adds some benefits that we can get from our carpets or rugs. By creating the Wooden Carpet, rugs can now …
The Reptile House: The Green House Of The Future
Green and eco-friendly house does not only limits to its building process and materials use. The concept itself can also be a great feature for a house to be eco-friendly. One great sample of that is the Cook+Fox house that is also called as the reptile house. It was being called this way because of …
The Eco-friendly Remote Control Design For Sony
Sony has just recently challenged Industrial Design students from China to design and eco-friendly device. One of the participants from Dong Hwa University came up with this unique creation called the Sony Conductor TV Remote. It’s a wand shape kind of remote that needed to be swayed side to side to power it on and …
Every Drop Counts By Ulrik Svenningsen
We all know that every drop counts, that is why designer Ulrik Svenningsen has created the Every Drop Counts water meter. Unlike the traditional water meter, the Every Drop Counts meters your water usage, informs you where you particularly used the water, and most importantly, it detects running, dripping, and leaky pipes at a cost …
Spoon And Box: An Eco-friendly Packaging
Food packaging nowadays does not mean only attractive, appetizing, and eye-catching. Packaging designers are now also concern of saving the environment, thus resulting into an eco-friendly packaging. A group of designers from Asia has came into an idea of designing one and resulted into a beautiful, clean, simple and eco-friendly packaging called the Spoon and …
Human Powered Charger By Pierollo
People nowadays are pre-occupied with chores making them always on the go. With these reasons, mobility is what we need. Included in what we need are the mobile phones, computers, music and movie players and more. However, we were limited by the low battery life of our mobile device. Not anymore today because designer Pierollo …
Napkin PC By Avery Holleman
I am very amazed with how this wonderful design by Avery Holleman called the Napkin PC worked. It is a recyclable computer that consists of napkin modules, which serves as the display instead of those bulky CRT and LCD monitors. It also has a pen that serves as the mouse that is responsible of giving …
Armstrong Bin By Sukwon Park And Sungwoo Park
With the aim to help save the environment, designers Sukwon Park and Sungwoo Park joint hands with other designers and created the Armstrong Bin. This cool and stylish bin will harness the use of garbage bags. What is the catch and it was considered as an eco-friendly product? Well the concept of the Armstrong bin …
Kyoto Box By John Bohmer
I am sure; no one will ever think that a super cheap invention would win in a competition. Well, designer John Bohmer has proved it to the world with his $5 Kyoto Box. Despite of its cheap and simple design, the Kyoto Box has the ability to produce cooked food and clean water to billions …