Green Diary

Keeping in mind the serene quality of plants, Greenwoks has come up with modular mobile plant wall. Presented at ICFF, this piece of artwork designed by Lisa Wacklin is a conveyor of health, bringing with it an aura of well being. Its construction allows for dense growth of plants whereby bringing with it boost of oxygen. In addition to its aesthetic quality, it helps reduce headaches, difficulties in concentrating, allergies, weariness and dry skin.

Main features:
Multifarious in functionality, it’s useful as a room divider- standing alone or modulated. What makes it user friendly and unique from traditional pots is its self-automated watering and nutrition system. It consists of two panels, where front panel unlocks itself, making cleaning and maintenance easy.

What do you get from an old used soccer ball? Trash? Well if that’s what you think then you need to think again. There is a bag made from actual used soccer balls being sold at Branch.

The ball

The bag is being hand-made in Germany. An actual soccer ball has been turned inside out to make this bag and each bag is one-of-a-kind, giving it an entire unique and personal touch. The previous user of the ball might have left markings on the inside of the ball in the form of grass stains, blood and sweat. It has an inside pocket, made from reclaimed truck tarp material, which is of the ideal size for your cell phones.

“What you guys represent is an example of what vision means in the space programme, always describing our willingness to stretch beyond currrent boundaries and to look at things in new ways” rightly said Barack Obama. As the technology is progressing at a faster pace, one such technology of water recycling system has taken place. With the help of this technology, sweat and moisture from air and even urine will be recycled to reduce astronauts’ thirst. On Wednesday, astronauts celebrated their day by drinking recycled urine water.

The futuristic ‘Distrito C’ project is a combination of twelve structures – four phases for three buildings each connected to one another through a walkway. The design incorporates world’s largest rooftop photovoltaic installation with 15,300 photovoltaic solar panels on top of the walkway connecting the phases. These solar panels are efficient enough to collect 4 million KW hours annually.

Spanish design house Ciclus has taken the initiative to give new shape to the discarded material such as newspaper flyers, old photographs and posters, soft drink cans and film negatives. Ciclus has transformed these discarded materials into usable accessories like jewellery, leather bags, key rings, etc. The handmade jewelley line is made from 80% recycled material.

What do you do with your discarded toothpicks? I know we all throw them after using once. Even I do so. However, when I saw the stamen lamp made from hundred of toothpicks I’m amazed and feeling a bit guilty.

The stamen lamp, designed by Daisuke Hiraiwa, was seen during New York design week 2009, debuted at ICFF show 2009.

Technology is progressing at a faster pace. In coming years we will be driving on air- fueled battery. Isn’t this surprising? The new STAIR (St. Andres Air) battery will provide 10 times more energy than the conventional batteries. Surprisingly, in the coming few years’ electric cars, computers, and cell phone batteries will be equipped with the newly designed technology that will live longer without charging.

Fashion keeps on changing; we just can’t keep wearing the same outfit again and again. So, what about your old discarded clothes? You don’t want them to clog your wardrobe anymore and you can’t through them either. Here, clothes swapping come handy. I haven’t heard of this trend before, however, it is cool to swap your old ones for another.

By 2012, Taiwan- based LED maker Epistar has set certain target for the company to produce efficiencies for DC and AC powered LEDs. It is aiming to produce 150 lumens/ watt (lm/w) for DC and 130lm/w for AC- powered LEDs, which in today’s scenario is 100lm/w and 70lm/w respectively. In addition to this, the efficiencies will simultaneously increase for DC and AC by 50% and 86% respectively. The LED equipped devices are now expected to last longer on a single charge.

Nanotechnology solar hydrogen project won the E.ON research award this year. The topic of the award was the application of nanotechnology in the energy sector. The project produced green hydrogen by utilizing sun’s energy along with biomass and water. It uses a combination of solar driven cleavage of water and degradation of organic compounds.