Showing posts with label green. Show all posts
Showing posts with label green. Show all posts

Sunday, April 27, 2008

the future you've been waiting for that you still can't live in.

with main stream auto design being as stale as it is, it's about time these objects finally come to life. most of us grew up being clobbered over the head with images of what the future will look like. thanks to places like MIT and people like renowned architect Frank O. Gehry, car's like this are being designed.
i was led to this car while browsing the smart cities site where they have posted the bit car. this is stackable electric car which will be placed near train and bus stops and places of high pedestrian traffic and you rent the car like a luggage cart at the airport. The best part is that the car re-charges once it is returned to a station. take that zip car
this led me to looking at other concept cars etc... with so much media attention to going green, it's nice to see design and earth preservation merging into interesting new products. now if they would only make and mass produce these things already...
here is a link to a cool pdf presentation of some of the concept cars and some running prototypes.
here are some more pics of other amazing cars. more details can be see at the ARCHiNODE STUDIO

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Dear APPLE, take THAT...Sincerely, Dell

Dell is about to launch an "eco-friendly" computer... you have a plant a tree in your living room and they send a tech-guy out to gut the planted tree and install a screen, a motherboard and some usb slots.... ok I kid, but this is kinda cool. I snagged the pictures off earth2tech



Dell claims the computer is 81 % smaller than a standard desktop, uses 70 percent less power and is filled with recycled materials like old bottles, milk jugs and detergent cases. (and you thought all that crap would only make shitty hard tissue and those nice little sleeves that coffee shops give you so as to not burn your hand)

The computer is supposed to drop later this year and run between $500 and $700.

MY SUGGESTION... add a projector that allows the image to shine on the wall or a monitor sized screen and eliminate the monitor altogether.

Dell Earth