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Wednesday, April 29, 2009 - 3:08am
The brainchild of students from Arizona State University, this toilet has been designed with yoga principles in mind — and it's won its creators an award from the Northwest Design Invitational. Named Go with the Flo, the transparent blue loo...
Friday, October 10, 2008 - 12:41pm
That battery you're throwing away may not have enough energy left to power your gadgetry, but it does have enough juice to light up a low-energy LED. That's the driving idea behind South Korean designer Sung Woo Park's conceptual...
Thursday, October 9, 2008 - 2:49pm
Industrial designers Christopher Bauder and Christian Perstl have designed a kinetic façade called FLARE that dynamically controls how much light a building lets in — and how much heat. Architects frequently design their buildings around these principles, but suffer...
Thursday, July 10, 2008 - 2:13pm
When Vancouver hosts thousands of athletes and personnel during the upcoming 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Canada, the city plans to do so in a sustainable, eco-friendly manner. Vancouver wants its Athlete's Village — which is actually two villages...
Tuesday, April 8, 2008 - 12:45pm
If you’re familiar with Singgih Kartino’s elegant wooden radios he’s designed for Areaware, you might like this newest iteration, the Magno Wooden Radio that’s much smaller than his original medium-sized creation. At $220 (available in July), it moves beyond a...
Friday, February 8, 2008 - 8:45am
The revolving door, now that is one heck of an invention! This door has been an active part of hotel and office life for decades and just now someone has though to turn it into a human hamster wheel....
Thursday, December 27, 2007 - 9:10am
Because we all know that global warming is caused by all those pesky doghouses that are belching out carbon monoxide and piling up in landfills, Sustainable Pet Design created Greenrrrroof. It's basically the same thing as any old doghouse...
