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Showing posts with label Gadgets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gadgets. Show all posts
29 January 2014WeeBee Real Smart Home at the Fraction of the Cost
"Webee", the first Smart Home system that connects and
controls your home appliances through one simple App, while providing
personal suggestions customized to you, to save money and improve
efficiency. Compatible with any other smart technology!
30 May 201128 October 201030 September 2010A Snail That Cleans Your Bathroom While U SleepIf you ever experienced cleaning your bathrooms, you'll know that the hardest part would be is removing the grind and dirt that has accumulated in between the tiles and over the grout. What you would usually do is to put your backs into it and to try to scrub it until your hands seem to come off your arms. It's a lot of work which is why Korean designer Dong Hun Seo designed a snail like figure to clean the bathroom tiles so we don't have to. 17 August 2010Get the Lead Out: Printer Uses Pencil Stubs and Old Erasers
Printer cartridges are expensive and made of environmentally-unfriendly plastic. So far, the best alternative has been to refill empty cartridges or buy recycled ones, but designer Hoyoung Lee came up with a radically different idea: use pencil stubs as “ink” for a printer that also uses old erasers to get rid of mistakes. It’s called the Pencil Printer, and it’s an impractical – if very attractive looking design.
The designer proposes feeding small pencil stubs (sans metal bits or erasers) into a small hole in the printer. The printer then grinds and burns the pencil bits, making them into ink. We can’t quite figure out why a printer would need an eraser – unless you would feed already-printed papers back into the printer after discovering mistakes. According to the designer, this revolutionary printer would save trees. For people who use pencils often enough to have stubs lying all over (artists, for example), this may even be a perfect solution for clearing up the clutter around the home or office. Of course, you probably couldn’t count on those graphite-printed papers to be legible forever, but you’d be recycling them as soon as you’re done anyway, right? 14 May 2010Ghost Bust Your Energy Usage
Energy conservation is an important subject, and one that kids should be aware of. While previous generations had to learn good habits later in life, we know enough about the effects of energy over-consumption now that we can teach today’s children to save energy from a young age. That’s the goal of this design from Tim Holley. He calls it Tio, and it’s a ghost-shaped light switch that gives kids a visual reminder of how much energy they have used by leaving lights on.
Tio starts out green and smiling. If the light is left on for more than four hours, he turns yellow and looks shocked. And if you dare to leave that light on for more than eight hours, sweet little Tio turns into a raging red hulk, complete with frowny mouth and angry eyes. But he won’t just visually remind your kids about their energy habits; information from the light switch is sent to Tio’s computer program so the entire family can see how they’re doing. In a brilliant piece of visual positive reinforcement, Holley’s program lets kids grow a “virtual tree” which gets bigger and healthier the more energy they save. Holley’s design runs with the idea that conserving energy is a family affair. Parents who demonstrate care for the environment are likely to have children who also care for the environment. Using positive reinforcement like Tio could be just the personal-responsibility angle that gets kids interested in conserving energy. There is, of course, a target age group for Tio, but we can imagine even some adults would love to see this glowy green ghost on their walls.
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