(TrendHunter.com) The Morgan LifeCar is a concept car due to be launched at the Geneva Show in March 2008. According to the makers, the LifeCar’s purpose is to demonstrate that a zero emission vehicle can also be fun to drive. The project is a collaboration between Oscar Automotive, Cranfield University, QinetiQ, O…
(TrendHunter.com) Party balloons may be the next big thing in solar power. Cool Earth has made some giant balloons with gizmos inside that will convert the collected sun and focus it onto a cell. They have been given a big chunk of moola to make 10,000 balloons to cover 80 acres in California and hopefully in a coupl…
(TrendHunter.com) Touted as the wave of the future, Corgi International, in partnership with Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies, has developed the H2Go, a radio controlled toy car powered only by sunlight and water. The car makes use of solar power to extract hydrogen from the water, which the fuel cell then converts to …
(TrendHunter.com) PETA scored a major victory against Australian sheep farmers when H & M banned Australian wool from their designs. The dispute arose of a practice called mulesing. This is removal of skin from the tail to prevent flies from laying eggs in the folds. A statement from H & M said they would start looki…
(TrendHunter.com) Someone put their old cigarette packages to creative use when they built this model Lamborghini Reventon. It’s even got fully functioning doors that lift upward just like on a real Lambo. It’s even got detailed seats that can be taken out. You’d half expect to see a mini Marlboro Man behind the whee…
(TrendHunter.com) Eating locally is not only fashionable, but may one day soon be necessary. Locavores are those inclined to obtain their food supplies from sources that are nearby. Since our food travels more than 1,000 miles on average, the implications are huge. How long can we continue to sustain this?
(TrendHunter.com) Hopefully you are recycling your clothes by giving them to a younger sibling, goodwill or the like. But imagine a world where your clothes had an expiration date and started dissolving.
What a great way to punk that co-worker you hate. Loan her your expired dress. Helen Storey wants couture to be …
(TrendHunter.com) Recycling has spurred on such a huge movement for creative projects like these instruments made of old car parts.
The video is from the British Ford commercial we posted last week which featured an entire orchestra made of pieces of a Ford Focus backed up singer, Alesha Dixon. The music they are a…
(TrendHunter.com) You will no longer worry about recharging your phone on a long trip, or be able to make up excuses about your phone being out of juice. The Atlas Kinetic Phone uses the daily movement of a cellular phone to generate electricity. And it does so in an elegant and stylish design, with a central sapphir…
(TrendHunter.com) House J is now the proud winner of the WAN house of the Year award – designed by South African architect Kevin Fellingham – and recognises the stunning characterisitics of this Simonstown house in Cape Town. The house sits attractively beside the nature conservation area of the Table Mountain natio…
(TrendHunter.com) In a time where the eco-friendliness of a product or service is a primary concern of consumers, designers need to innovate to answer the same functional demands while incorporating greener ways and not sacrificing on design. Michael Laut’s Chute Phone is a prime example.
One of the most eco-friendl…
(TrendHunter.com) Nike’s latest line of shoe design is garbage. Literally. The Nike Trash Talk are actually made from manufacturing wastes, which is kind of hard to believe looking at their crisp white design.
They were designed based on the shoes worn by Steve Nash of the Phoenix Sons, hence the electric orange la…
(TrendHunter.com) The world’s largest solar power farm has opened in Spain with an installed peak power capacity of 20 megawatts. It surpasses the solar farm at the Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada which is rated at 14 megawatts. The new solar farm features 120,000 solar panels and covers 100 hectares (247 acres) in J…
(TrendHunter.com) In a growing trend of street lighting that is capable of generating its own power (see Folrida’s , and Canada’s attempts); Mauricio Clavero designed the ‘Autonoma’. After looking at these different solutions, the Autonoma wins hands down in the department of elegance and beauty.
(TrendHunter.com) It doesn’t get any greener than this. A mobile phone made entirely from recycled material. Nokia unveiled ‘remade’, an environment friendly phone concept at the Mobile World Congress. The silver-coloured handset’s chasis is made with plastic from drink bottles while its rubber keypad is made from o…
(TrendHunter.com) “Would you like to come upstairs and see my wood?” Mario Philippona is inspired by the woman’s form and is interpreting it using undeniably beautiful wood. He recognizes the way women use fashion, fitness and plastic surgery to obtain beauty. He is such a dreamer he uses images from Playboy and the…
(TrendHunter.com) Great news for us clumsy/ lazy people and for the environment as well. With the help of nanotechnology, self cleaning forms of wool and silk have been developed. The technology used is a nano particle coating, similar to the one already used to keep windows clear, that could lead to “self-cleaning” …
(TrendHunter.com) The mean green electric two seater charges from zero to 60 mph in 5.7 seconds, its two in-wheel motors produce 320 horsepower. It goes a top speed of 156 mph, and could be yours as soon as next year.
ZAP (Zero Air Pollution) is working with Lotus Engineering on the Alias, which is not only faster …
(TrendHunter.com) Liked the idea of biology lessons but just could not get to grips with the frog dissection part of it, well computer scientists at the University of Buffalo have come up with the world’s first virtual reality frog dissection software. Now you can avoid all the moral and ethical questions live dissec…
(TrendHunter.com) Perfect for those obsessed about their dishs being spotless while conserving water. EULO is a sink that performs instant grey water recycling for reuse whilst washing dishes; providing constant rinsing without the water waste. It features three levels of inbuilt filtration; a primary particle strai…
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