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You don’t need to place extra pots with greens in and around your house as buildings with plants on the walls are rising high in sky. And these are not accidental growths on the concrete. The architects at Triptyque have erected an office building,...
Here’s a two-seated car that is able to lie flat on the highway, along with the knack of shrinking down on busy roads to give away space, offering better parking. Purely ingenious, I say! Designed by Oskar Johansen from Norway, this vehicle makes...
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Automobile, Car, Concept, Peugeot 888, Shape-shifting, Green, Eco-friendly, Solar panel, Norway, Oskar Johansen, Environment
Not one individual or a group, but Sweden as a whole country has merged as a winner for making the best of bio-gas—a concept that has been blissfully ignored by many countries until now. It is estimated that 25% of Sweden’s energy consumption...
Since rooftops have been the most ignored element of many buildings, Brooklyn architects Solid Objectives - Idenburg Liu have expertly designed a rooftop landscape to showcase green roof technologies on an industrial building in Queens, New York. A...
The newly released mini-desktop X27 by Shuttle, unlike its competitors, is small in size and way more effective than all of them. The new PC promises to use 23 watts in idle mode and 36 watts in use, analogous to a laptop. Falling under the Nettop...
The New South Wales Architectural Awards list for outstanding design, presented by the Australian Institute of Architects (New South Wales Chapter), was announced in Sydney on the 5th of August. Among the 42 chosen, 20 were awarded to adaptive reuse...
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Green, Waste, Architecture, Award, Winning, Design, Oz, Australia, New, South, Wales, Buildings, Architects, Sydney, Sustainable, Environment
Now here’s a washing machine I really want to get my hands on! Sanyo’s aptly named AQUA washing machine is yet another invention taking domestic appliances to the greener yet useful side of life. Apart from all the regular features of your...
Today, Fujitsu Siemens uncovered the first zero-watt monitor (20-inch P20W-5 ECO and the 22-inch P22W-5 ECO) in standby mode. Unlike the other LCD’s in the world where the monitors use 4-10 watts or more in standby mode, this one uses nothing! When...
We usually associate the words ‘noise & fuel wastage’ with airplanes, but a new kind of air race sanctioned by NASA, held at Santa Rosa (California) changes perception. The contest was held between the GSE Katana DA-20, Pipistrel Virus, UFM-13...
Minkyung an along with Mi-hwa Chang see a pretty gloomy yet true image of our environment in another 12 years time. Envisioning that our planet will be ripped of its green image almost completely by 2020, they also feel that the available greens,...
The newest offerings by BenQ are its two new slim and sleek monitors. Stylish black and silver (E900HD/HAD) and black (G900HD/HAD) offers LCD monitors (18.5-inch), top resolution display (1366×768), 10000:1 dynamic contrast ratio, 5ms response time,...
We are constantly looking up techniques to save our electricity bills and to deliver this, there many energy saving products in the market that promise great results. Most of them only paint you the rosy picture and miserably fail to deliver the...
With Olympics right around the corner, the Volkswagen Group did the right thing by becoming the automobile partner of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. These cars will be used as official vehicles for the world's event. The cars carry a special design...
Japan's No.3 automaker Nissan has developed an accelerator pedal that will push back the driver's foot when it detects excess pressure and poor fuel efficiency. The system comes with real-time fuel consumption levels displayed in the instrument...
If it takes an event like Olympics to instigate an eco cleaning spree in and about the whole city, then I feel such an event should take place every year in every ‘most polluted city’ around the globe. At least we will achieve a globally cleaner...
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