We create energy in our everyday lives, which when unharnessed goes unused. I’ve been seeing many designers coming up with ingenious ways to capture this energy and use it for the purpose of powering something which conventionally required electric or battery power. Designer, Deco Goodman, is no exception. Goodman created a headlight and tail light [...]
Posts from ‘November, 2008’
A Search Engine that Plants Trees
Ecocho.com is a new eco friendly search engine which plants five trees for every 1000 searches made on its website. Ecocho uses Yahoo’s search technology to power searches made on their site and the resulting trees are purchased from advertising revenue generated on the site. Searches lead to trees being planted which results in slowing [...]
Keep the Heater Off and Your Fingers Warm.
I used to work in a building where the heater didn’t work. This was obviously fine during the summer but during the winters it was excrutiatingly painful. My whole body was cold but the one thing I noticed was it was difficult for me to type and therefore work because my hands were ice cold. [...]