Gadgets

The iPod Recycling Speaker from Bird Electron

Recycling is a great way of showing that we care for our mother nature. The Bird-Electron EZ17-B iPod Recycling Speaker is just one of the great product wherein a recycled plastic iPod packaging serves as the enclosure for the speaker. In this way, instead of trashing out your iPod case, you can now have it …

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Architecture

The R-House – A Completely Self-Sufficient Design

The R-House is an amazing design that is completely self-sufficient. It is made of sustainable non-toxic wood and is installed with photovoltaic solar panels and wind turbines. The house is pre-fabricated and assembled. It has photovoltaic cells and vertical axis wind turbines that will fulfill the entire energy requirements of the house. In addition, a …

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Architecture

Old 1910 Warehouse to LEED Condos

Reusing old structure to make a new one is such a great idea. Just like the Cromley Lofts in Alexandria that receives a Gold level certification and eventually made them as the first LEED certified condominiums in Virginia. The Cromley Lofts has eight wonderful units that are located in the old town area of Alexandria …

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Architecture Design and Concept

The Sphere by Felix Stark

The sphere is an architectural design that composed of nineteen tent units and eventually formed a circle. In the center of the circle, people can socialize each other and compose a community. Each of the Nineteen tent units can accommodate up to three person and the partitions can be unbuttoned to accommodate larger number like …

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Outdoors

NYC Soon to Install LED Streetlamps

It seem like the big apple is really trying its best to live green and save mother earth. They already have the plastic bag tax, mass transit system, LEED certified skyscrapers, and car free zones, and soon will be an efficient LED street lamps will light up the busy streets of New York City that …

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Fashion Recycle

Beer Goggles by Urban Spectacles

We all know what a beer is and what does it brings to us. Normally after drinking, beer bottles are either returned back to its distillery company or broken and thrown. However, Urban Spectacles had made the beer bottle more useful by recycling it and made it as the main for a fashionable eyewear called …

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