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The Awesome Way To Recycle a Dumpster [pics]
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Goldsmith's design graduate, Oliver Bishop-Young, unveiled two interesting proposals for the re-use of dumpsters (or skips as they're called in the UK) at the New Designers' festival earlier this month - but would you have lunch in a dumpster, or more to the point, would you swim in one? The first proposal is for a website where people can share information about the contents of their skip and others can salvage it (demo now online).
Continue reading...Rothschild Sails Across the Pacific on a Piece of Junk
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Our friends at Men's Vogue recently featured an interesting interview with eco-adventurer, David de Rothschild, and although he may be a member of one of the world's most famous banking families, he's far from being all about the deal - his environmental interests have taken him across the globe from New Zealand to the frozen ice caps of Greenland and now the intrepid explorer is about to embark on one of his most challenging expeditions to date: crossing the Pacific on a boat made of garbage!
Continue reading...Capillary Carafes For Your Wine? [pics]
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
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This amazing set of wine decanters resembling human capillaries was first discovered by our friends over at Neatorama. They're very cool, but isn't the point of a decanter to open the wine up to the air? Well traditionally yes, but who cares when you've just paid between €2000 and €5000 for a beautiful piece of sculpted borosilicate.
Continue reading...Subaquatic Fashion
Monday, July 14, 2008
As magazines and fashion houses strive to capture ever more striking images, traditional photography settings are being pushed to the limit - underwater fashion shoots have become increasingly popular in recent years and some of the results are simply breathtaking, as this collection shows...Shot earlier this year for Japanese fashionista bible, Numero Tokyo, the swirling curves and dramatic poses of Marcelina Sowa are perfectly captured by photographer, Alix Malka, as she floats underwater.
Continue reading...10 Radioactive Products That People Actually Used
Friday, July 11, 2008
Nuclear power has long been touted as a utopian technology, ushering in an era of work-free, unlimited energy supply and correspondingly longer and healthier lives. Today it is more well-known for its dangers, which include the atom bomb and radiation poisoning . Yet for 40 years, Radium was a popular tonic added to everything from tea to lipstick. We've decided to explore some of the strangest radioactive products in history and the effects they might have had on those that used them.
Continue reading...WTF? Online Community to Celebrate Your Toilet’s Birthday
Thursday, July 10, 2008
‘There's a blog born every second, a sucker born every minute and 133 million children born every year. But how often is a toilet born?' The answer to that is likely to be: very frequently. But despite their large and ever increasing numbers a new website called toiletbirthdays.com aims to celebrate each and every beautiful ceramic cistern system individually.
Continue reading...Wave Powered Boat Sails for 4,350 Miles Across Pacific !
Thursday, July 10, 2008
n February this year a 69-year-old sailor named Ken-ichi Horie began his journey on a wave powered boat. From his homeland in Japan, he set off on a 4,350 mile journey to reach Hawaii in a more eco-friendly way. And he did it! It took him around 111 days to accomplish what he started. His advanced wave powered boat traveled at a speed of about 1.5 knots.
Continue reading...WTF? Vessel Too Toxic for Bangladeshi Ship Breakers Sent to UK
Thursday, July 3, 2008
Image by Flickr user Peter_32 Ship breakers in Bangladesh toil in conditions that resemble hell on earth, breaking rusting hulks by hand for little more than a dollar a day. But should we allow a former French aircraft carrier considered too dangerous for even these workers to be [...]
Continue reading...Cute Little Cats Get Made Into Burgers At Peruvian Festival
Thursday, July 3, 2008
There are few things in this world that elicit such strong reactions from people as a kitten. In fact, the only thing that could possibly evoke stronger emotions is a multitude of kittens. (My experience strongly suggests that the delight one feels from each kitten [...]
Continue reading...Giant Turtle Airships are the Way of the Future
Thursday, July 3, 2008
A turtle shaped airship is perhaps the last thing you might expect to see floating through the sky, but this eco-friendly craft might just be key to the next generation of humanitarian relief.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008
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