Traditional shampoos and conditioners can be a real bummer. Not only are they encapsulated in single-use plastic packaging, but in most cases, traditional haircare contains toxins and chemicals. If you’re already making your own shampoo bars and zero-waste, non-toxic bar soap, then it feels about time you also learn how to make DIY conditioner bars. You may be wondering: What’s […]
DIY Conditioner Bars
Biodegradable Tea Bags A Huge Welcome
There’s many ways to cut down on plastic waste in terms of our drinking, such as eliminating unnecessary straws and not consuming single-use bottles. However, there haven’t been great solutions for tea drinkers. How come? Tea bags aren’t easy on the environment, and for the sake of convenience and saving money, many tea drinkers lean toward the bagged variety. And […]
Combined Wave/Solar System
We first encountered Eco Wave Power back in 2012 when the company began testing a novel wave energy harvesting system that turned the rise and fall of coastal waters into electricity. The system went from the lab to the real world in 2016, and a second grid-connected projectwas announced for Jaffa Port in Israel earlier this year. Now EWP is […]
Wearable For Hair Regrowth
While there are some devices and medications out there to help slow hair loss and regrow hair, they’re bulky, uncomfortable, or have substantial side effects. Low-frequency electric stimulation, delivered in pulses and over extended time periods, has a great deal of potential as an effective way to promote hair growth. The problem is that it currently requires batteries, electronics, electrodes, […]
Lenovo Smart Clock
First came the smart speakers, then came the smart speakers with displays – and the Lenovo Smart Clock is one of the most compact smart displays yet, going head to head against devices like the Amazon Echo 5 and the Google Nest Hub. Is this a device worthy of a place in your growing smart home? After testing one for […]
Front & Rear Camera For Your Helmet
Urwerk’s UR-100 SpaceTime wristwatch doesn’t just display the time, it also shows how far the Earth travels. Based on the UR-101 and UR-102 of two decades ago, the UR-100 uses three sets of indicators to show how far in kilometers the Earth rotates and moves in its orbit. The Urwerk company produces many watches that are a bit out there, […]
Kickless Longboard
Although we’ve been seeing a lot of variations on the electric skateboard lately, it seems that there’s also still room for innovation with good ol’ human-powered boards. Such is the case with the Dokido, a three-wheeled longboard that the user moves forward by swishing their hips. Created by North Carolina-based entrepreneur Kenneth Kumada, the Dokido forgoes the usual two rear […]
Future Of Public Transport With eCitaro City Bus
Ahead of the 2018 IAA Commercial Vehicles expo in Hannover, Germany, this September, Daimler Buses has announced the world debut of the eCitaro electric city bus from Mercedes-Benz. The reveal is part of a push to eventually replace combustion engine-powered city buses in a few short years. Aesthetically, the eCitaro doesn’t wander too far from the template of the company’s […]
Earecho
Whether we like it or not, there are now a lot of people walking around with earbuds jammed into their ears. Scientists from the University at Buffalo decided to see if they could put those buds to extra use, so they designed a system that allows the devices to help verify smartphone users’ identities. Known as EarEcho, the technology was […]
Quirky Cat Shelter
HOK, Perkins + Will, and Morphosis feature in this year’s Architects for Animals Giving Shelter event. Created to raise money for a non-profit that reduces stray cat populations by spaying and neutering them before letting them go, it lets architects have some fun with designing novel cat shelters. A total of 11 shelters were created for the event, which took […]