The latest to hit the shelves of the solar powered hands free gadgets is the Iqua Vizor SUN. Exclusively designed to make the best of the sun as well blend with the interior of your car with style, this Blue Tooth device provides hours of unhindered connectivity. Since it feeds on sun rays, simply fit it on to the car’s visor or let it be on the dashboard to suck in all the solar energy. Fitted with user-friendly, must-have features at the push of a button, user can answer, end or reject incoming calls, redial the last number used, or control the volume without fuss. Such a green connectivity device boasts of a style as unique as its technology. In U.S, the Iqua Vizor SUN is available as an accessory for the iPhone.
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A clock without a face, that’s sounds funny but Empty Time displays just that. It’s a square shaped clock made from recycled paper and has a solar panel to juice it. Eco-friendly the empty face actually provides room to store pictures of family members or artworks from your kid. Designed by Shuo Yang, it’s a timeless concept!
Mr. Charlie Huie is up to some fun since years as he carves Santas into just about anything that will sit still long enough. And his trademark is the Santa handles of old tools like tack hammers, sink plungers, old-fashioned potato mashers, and the like. Recycling tools and other old wooden handled household items like iron and rolling pins, this fellow is certainly smitten by the Santa’s charm.
What’s that one thing that stands true for economy, electric, energy, and environment? ECord is the correct answer! Conceptualized to protect environment by efficiently reducing energy waste due to the ‘Standby Power’, ECord simply indicates the wastage by changing its color. Sporting a patterned new composition on its PVC covering, it goes from invisible to detectable mode when the specific range (from 1 to 15W) of current is passing through it. And if there is any loss due to standby power, noticeable pattern appears on the ECORD surface.
If the engineer inside you is toying to work on some noteworthy object over the weekend, or you simply want to buy an out-of-the-ordinary gift for your smart teen, then Vaccum Engine Car is the thing. Japanese hobby kit maker, Gakken, is out with a set that allows you to build your own vacuum car engine. Of course for $210, you cannot get a real hybrid car to zoom off in an eco-friendly style, but certainly a DIY eco-toy-car for green playtime. Sporting an aluminum body, iron shaft, brass valves, plastic steering wheel and a seat too, this vehicle feeds on alcohol fuel. It boasts of a real eternal combustion engine that takes about two hours to assemble without any special tools. Simply hit the gear and watch it go! Don’t miss the video after the jump…….
Recently we bought your attention to the World’s Largest Cork Mosaic. And today, it’s the whole wine bottle that is undergoing an eco-revamping. Till now economically prized wines were packed cardboard boxes but henceforth FOUR wine intends to break that trend. For the first time a premium California wine has dared to shatter the glass to step in the cardboard tubes. Supposed to be good for environment as well as pockets, such an eco-packaging move may not go down the throats of wine connoisseurs with ease. But FOUR’s Brand manager Larry Leigon is optimistic about this green change. He also justifies the positive effect of such a carton-styled packaging by stating that the wine can last longer after being opened and less oxygen enters through the tube and its spout than a bottle whose cork has been popped. The company is marketing its Cabernet Sauvignon/Petite Sirah blend in three-liter (three-quart) canisters.
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Not all wooden products are eco-friendly as trees felled for fresh wood takes a toll on our forests and environment. Employing used lumber and recycled old wood resources help in reducing the overall impact to our environment. And here is a gadget that helps to recycle the lumber in more efficient manner. Woodscan is an optical scanning equipment designed to enhance effective reuse and recycle of non-hazardous secondhand lumber. Earlier all the lumber found its way to landfills. But with this sorting device, users can separate harmful used lumber from re-usable good ones easier than ever. It is a totally new optical discrimination system using near infrared rays, enabling us to sort out lumber containing hazardous material simply by holding the equipment over the object. This compact, portable gadget makes it convenient for users to carry it along to the sites. And we all know that salvaging used lumber can provide cost savings and move us all closer to a sustainable future.
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Feeling lost at the thought of buying the perfect gift for your geeky gal? If you are looking for something out of the box, then here’s an exceptional DIY recycled neckpiece for your geek-diva or eco-babe. Simply rummage through the junk corner of your house and grab hold of broken discarded stuff like vintage pocket watch, a skeleton key and a doll’s arm. At least that’s what GreighdayVintage found in her closet. You can go more creative and personalize a different version of this Avant Garde Dolly Assemblage Necklace. Roll over for more images…..
The land of rising sun made way for the world’s first cargo ship partly propelled by solar power to hit the seas. Fitted with 328 solar panels for a whopping price of $1.68 million, freighter Auriga Leader took off from a shipyard in Kobe. Developed by Nippon, it has room for about 6,400 automobiles that need to leaves the shores of Japan for other countries. For start, the solar powered ship will vehicles being sent for sale overseas by Japan’s top automaker Toyota Motor Corp. It is asserted that the 60,213-tonne, 200-metre (660-foot) long ship is the first large vessel in the world with a solar-based propulsion system.
After popping up bottles, most of us simply drown in the intoxicating world of champagnes and wines without giving a second though to the cork that keeps the flavor intact. But artist Saimir Strati has gathered about 229,764 corks to give shape to an exceptional form of eco-art. His work has been recorded as the World’s Largest Cork Mosaic. Slogging over 14 hours a day and 27 days at stretch, Saimir has recycled the corks of different sizes and colors by gluing them onto a large banner in the gardens of Sheraton Tirana Hotel and Towers.Watch out for the video after the jump…….
