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You normally grab your iPod with your hands or stuff it in your pocket, but if you wanted to know how it feels like cuddling it with both of your arms around it then this gigantic ipod might help you. There’s no rough corners involved or buttons to be pushed accidentally while embracing it because what you see is a pillow inside an iPod pillow cover that is meant only for hugging.
Gigantic showy flowers are being placed at different cities in United States by Toyota as a part of the marketing campaign of its 2010 Toyota Prius. These temporary installations which emphasize the message “Harmony Between Man, Nature and Machine” were placed in Boston’s Prudential Plaza and will be seen in cities like New York, Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.
Tired of parking and driving in the peak office hours. Life couldn’t be more miserable during those times. Right? Not to worry, most of us are such victims of urbanization. Still there is hope, like the Speedway Traffic system. It consists of magnetically controlled super compact cars, that have enhanced speeds by putting in a linear motor into the highways.
Engineers are coming up with all the options to generate power from solar energy for a long time. This is another example. Check out the super portable cell phone charger from Green-House Japan named GH-SC350. The charger will be able to recharge your cellphone in just 30-40 minutes (max.).
MIT has always been the most pioneering place for breakthroughs in technology. Innovation there never ends. Now they have come up with a technology that can fully recharge your electric car in just 10 minutes! This is not a concept, as the technology is actually going to be implemented in the 2010 Mercury Milan shown above.
This cute green Robot, named DustCart, specializes in collection of garbage when summoned by any household within its service area. This robot has been designed for places where large garbage trucks cannot enter. It goes to the particular caller, asks for the ID, collects and then carries the trash to the waste disposal area. The picture shows the robot in Peccioli, Italy being tested.
GE has always been a pioneer in energy and utility innovation. Recently it introduced the idea of Net-Zero Energy home. As the name suggests, the house will be extremely energy efficient. Although GE targets to commercialize the idea by 2015, the initial architecture is already planned.
Recycling water and reducing water wastage has always been a point of importance. There have several recent developments in recycling water, and one such exacmple is the “Phyto-Purification Bathroom” from designer Jun Yasumoto. The idea is to use a simple and natural filtering principle which is called phyto-purification for recycling the waste water.
The colors remind us of parade floats but these are meant to be on the streets everyday. What you see are passenger vehicles which simply don’t look colorful and extraordinary but are made of 90% bamboo and run on coconut biodiesel. Introduced recently by Rustico Balderian, mayor of Tabontabon in Phillipines, the measure was taken so as to replace the pricey, fuel consuming, environment polluting, regular transportation with a more eco-friendly solution.
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