Many tend to the false assumption that a tiny machine like a personal mower doesn’t make much of a difference in contributing to the earth’s pollution. In reality, though, 2-cycle engines found on most power mowers, blowers, and weed-eaters contribute up 5-10% of the air pollution in Southern cities.
The German designed eco-mower known as the Brill Razorcut 38 is safe and quiet. Push mowers like this one are all-around good: for your environment, lawn and body. Weighing only 17 pounds, this model is among the easiest to use, as it runs on manpower and blades alone. Burn calories while you tend your garden, and take a little pride in an activity many neighbors avoid.
This Spring, Philips will be releasing a so-called “Eco TV”, which comes packed with a number of earth-friendly features. For example, the set can automatically dim the backlight to save power, depending on what is being displayed. It can also dim it when a built-in light sensor detects dark environs. Neat. Add lead-free innards and a box made of recycled material, and you’ve got yourself one environmentally-friendly television. It will come out in March for about $1400.
Elizabeth Rintels competed against great ideas nationwide when she won the “BKFK Going Green Challenge”.
Congratulation Elizabeth from us at BGM, you have made the Monster very happy today
The BKFK is a competition designed to stimulate youth to create new products or services that could help the global environmental crisis. The challenge awarded $10,000 and a real life experience to the top idea to someone between the ages of 6 and 19 for solving our most pressing environmental issues, including global warming, drought, famine and flooding.
Elizabeth R., age 12, won the Going Green Challenge for her “Water Watcher”. Realizing just how much water it took to take a shower, Elizabeth began seeking a way to make everyone more aware of their water usage. After learning that reducing her shower time only by one minute would save 1,000 gallons of water per year, she was driven to find a smarter way of utilizing this valuable resource. Elizabeth created “The Water Watcher”, a device that can be fastened to any faucet. It signals a red light and sounds a beep every time a half-gallon of water is used. Elizabeth hopes this will lead to more conscientious use of water in everyday life.
This eco-friendly clock is powered by water, and has four functions: Time, Temperature, Countdown Timer, and Alarm. The H20 Multi-Function Clock incorporates a revolutionary patented water-powered battery — just top it up with regular tap water and see it spring to life!
That is not all that makes this clock so cool. It also incorporates an ingenious gravity sensor – rotate the clock 90 degrees to instantly change from Time to Temperature to Alarm and then to Countdown Timer.
For the people who have lived a life in awareness and who want to end the same way, we have found the perfect eco-friendly coffins.
The Bamboo Eco-coffin:
The attractive weave and natural appearance of the Bamboo Eco Coffin will definitely meet the growing need for environmentally friendly funerals. This coffin is produced as environmentally friendly as possible. It is supplied with a bamboo headrest and a liner of waterproof biodegradable heavy-duty cotton. The handles are also produced from bamboo.
Even better, Pandas do not eat the species of bamboo used in the manufacture of this coffin and this bamboo is cultivated on Chinese Government plantations where employees have exemplary working conditions.
The Ecopod Recycled Biodegradable coffin:
The Ecopod is a revolutionary design in coffins made from naturally hardened 100% recycled paper.
The Ecopod is the ideal product for a non toxic burial - perfect for use in greenfield sites. A version suitable for cremations is available.
Designed by Antoin Lebrun, the Aion is a multi-functional appliance that utilizes plants for their filtering and cleaning properties to provide a renewable supply of clean water and vegetable soap. When cooking, the plants act as a filtering hood. When it’s time to clean up, place the dirty dishes into the sink, shut the hood and the natural cleaning cycle will begin.
Launched alongside The Museum of Modern Art’s “Design and The Elastic Mind” exhibition, the Morph concept device is a bridge between highly advanced technologies and their potential benefits to end-users. This device concept showcases some revolutionary leaps being explored by Nokia Research Center (NRC) in collaboration with the Cambridge Nanoscience Centre (United Kingdom) – nanoscale technologies that will potentially create a world of radically different devices that open up an entirely new spectrum of possibilities.
Morph concept technologies might create fantastic opportunities for mobile devices:
• Newly-enabled flexible and transparent materials blend more seamlessly with the way we live
• Devices become self-cleaning and self-preserving
• Transparent electronics offering an entirely new aesthetic dimension.
• Built-in solar absorption might charge a device, while batteries become smaller, longer lasting and faster to charge.
• Integrated sensors might allow us to learn more about the environment around us, empowering us to make better choices.
In addition to the advances above, the integrated electronics shown in the Morph concept could cost less and include more functionality in a much smaller space, even as interfaces are simplified and usability is enhanced. All of these new capabilities will unleash new applications and services that will allow us to communicate and interact in unprecedented ways.
The key feature of the Eclipse phone concept is its casing coated with chemically based thin solar skin that charges the battery when exposed to sunlight or any kind of light. On top of that you get:
Designed by Eddie Goh
Sleek design
Touchscreen display
Slide out keyboard supporting hotkey’s and tactile feedback
Called the Bamboo, this bio-degradable cell phone concept is an entry in the Greener Gadgets Design Competition 2008. Its casing is made of bio-plastic made of recyclable natural resources like corn and bamboo. After you decide not to use the phone anymore, you can bury the print board, battery and antenna which upon bio-degradation will release bamboo seeds and potentially new plants. The phone will also feature an energy-efficient monochrome display and a hand-crank with which to re-charge the device. A 3-minute cranking session could provide enough power for one phone call.
Iqua SUN - Bluetooth® Wireless Headset Out of stock…Available again June 21, 2008.
Aqua SUN’s wireless headset has a photovoltaic cell that uses any available light - outdoors and indoors - to charge itself and extend the operation times of the headset affording infinite standby time and no batteries in your ear.
This innovative and groundbreaking combination of science and style led the Iqua SUN to be selected as an “Innovations 2008 Design and Engineering Award” honoree in the Wireless Handsets Accessories product category.
