Category: Energy systems
The Wattson tells you how much electricity you're wasting, Sherlock Holmes
This pretty purple product isn’t designed to just sit on your shelf, glowing away ambiently like there’s no tomorrow, it actually has a very noble place within the household. It can lower your bills, gasp!
The Wattson from DIY Kyoto lets you see into the future, telling you how much your electricity bill will come to if you continue using the same amount of energy, and glows purple if you’re doing well, but…
B&Q aims to save the world with their green gadgets for the home
I’ve heard on the grapevine that it’s Energy Saving Week come the 22nd of October, and B&Q has jumped onto the bandwagon for a timely ‘green gadgets’ offering to the public. We don’t normally pander to PR blitzes, but when it’s going to help save the environment, we’re only happy to oblige.
The first green gadget is the Owl Monitor, which for £49.84 (ooh, specific), will check the amount your electrical appliances are costing you, by showing on the LCD display how much energy you’re guzzling, the cost…
Dell shoot their mouths off by claiming to become carbon neutral
Dell is really overhauling their fuddy-duddy image, not just by painting their latest XPS notebooks in bright colours, but by recently pledging to become carbon neutral.
If they succeed, they’ll be the the ”first major computer manufacturer” to do so, and plan on neutralising ‘the carbon impact of its worldwide operations’ by introducing a new ‘Plant a Forest for Me’ scheme where…
Fatbottomed girls will be riding today, on their E-V Sunny solar-powered bicycles
A solar powered bike? Huh? Am I missing something here? Bicycles are already green enough, and I’m sure the exercise is better than nothing? I’m confused.com here!
A very strange man by the name of Peter Sandler, who hails from Canada (no jokes), has invented the ‘E-V Sunny Bicycle’, which is 100% solar-powered. As you can see, solar panels have been built into the wheels, which charge the batteries, powering the 500 watt motor to get to speeds of 19mph…
Greenpeace launches range of dimmable energy-efficient lightbulbs
As part of the 100% Design London exhibition, Greenpeace unveiled what it claims to be the world's first dimmable low-energy light bulbs. They commissioned designer Jason Bruges to create an "interactive garden of light", which responded to human movement via…
Google to invest $10 million into green start-ups
Perhaps scared of the recent backlash they’ve been receiving from the internet-using public, Google have announced they’ll be investing $10 million into green start-ups with a new scheme dubbed RechargeIT….
WING: your own portable windmill
Windmills are great, but they could be a bit more portable, don’t you think? That’s the idea behind the development of WING, a concept design for a personal windmill. It’s the work of Croation designers Ines Vlahović & Mladen Orešić, and has just scooped an INDEX award for its innovative umbrella-like design.
IFA 2007: Liveblogging Philips going green
You can't get away from it. The future is green, and any CE company that doesn't react to that isn't going to last much longer. That's why Philips are holding a workshop dedicated to their sustainability. So here we go.
From 2000, coverage of green issues in the media has increased 200%, apparently. It's a hot topic for everyone from Richard & Judy to the Daily Mail. Philips want to be part of the solution, not part of the problem. Nice soundbite.
Sony saves the planet with… grape juice Bio Batteries?
I am quite often fuelled by grape juice, but it’s of the £4.99-from-Sainsbury’s Chilean variety, which isn’t exactly eco-friendly. But Sony’s newest technology isn’t about vino: it’s about using glucose extracted from grape juice to power gadgets.
Washing Machine 2.0: waterless or bike-powered?
Worried about how much water your washing machine uses? Airwash might be the answer to your prayers. It’s the world’s first waterless washing machine, and was one of the winners in the recent INDEX Design To Improve Life awards.
