Electricity-Free Light Bulb Powered by Bacteria

The light bulb could get a brand new power source: genetically engineered E. Coli bacteria. The Biobulb project is the brainchild of AnaElise Beckman, Alexandra Cohn and Michael Zaiken, three juniors at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The futuristic concept aims to create light from tiny microbes. “The result ideally will be a closed ecosystem which outputs light,” Zaiken says. The University of Wisconsin students Michael […]

Score A Free Beer

Wish a vending machine would give you a free beer? Most people would, and you’d also expect to have to complete a challenge or something similar to get it right?! Well, sometimes you just need to make cool vending machine simple, and this one from Amstel Beer, does exactly that. Introducing Amstel Pause, an interactive vending machine that helps you […]

Living Cube

The Living Cube by German designer Till Koenneker is a clever structure, combining all those elements we usually struggle to find space for in a tiny apartment. It houses a walk-in closet, ample media storage, and serves as a loft bed. Here is how designer describes it: “I moved into a apartment studio without storage room. So I made a minimalistic […]

BITalino – Create Apps with Physiological Sensors

BITalino is a simplified system for makers, app developers and researchers who want to quickly start capturing bio-signals. The low cost (€149/$197 + shipping and taxes) kit of modular blocks includes a swathe of physiological sensors that can be broken out to use individually or linked together and used in whatever combination you’re after. BITalino’s approach is plug and play, to keep things […]

Stylist Clock

Italian industrial designer Sabrina Fossi takes a look at your average wall clock and puts her own creative spin on it in the form of the FreakishCLOCK. Fossi removes the hour hand and instead the hour is revealed through a pie-shaped cut-out as the face revolves around as time passes. The numbers of the clock are hidden below the clock […]

Charge Electric Vehicles on the Go

Our cars are getting smarter every day–but can we say the same about our roads? Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde believes there is a wealth of untapped energy and potential right beneath our wheels. Winner in the prestigious INDEX: Award 2013 Community Category, Roosegaarde’s ‘Smart Highway’ concept modernizes European roadways into interactive experiences that pave the way towards environmental sustainability and […]

Space Saving Electric Car

With a click on a smartphone, the experimental “Armadillo-T” electric car made in South Korea will park itself and fold nearly in half, freeing up space in crowded cities. The quirky two-seater, named after the animal whose shell it resembles, may never see production but it is part of a trend of developing environmentally friendly vehicles for urban spaces. Armadillo-T: […]

Chamfer Home

Athens based architectural studio S-Archetype proposed this concept of a tiny dwelling, called Chamfer Home. “We wanted to take the challenge of designing a stylish, sustainable and affordable compact home to match different contemporary lifestyles and needs. A bold design statement, an eco friendly structure that could be set up easily anywhere and a completely autonomous prefab, serving as the perfect vacation […]