Refillable makeup products promise to reduce waste and help create a more sustainable beauty routine. If you’ve ever thrown out old makeup, you know how much waste plastic packaging creates. You can fill a wastebasket pretty quickly with old eye shadow and powder compacts, not to mention foundation bottles and so on. But which refillable makeup containers are the most sustainable? Are […]
Rise of Refillable Make-Up
Pacofire Camp Stove
The space-saving endeavors of outdoor companies has led to a flurry of foldable camp stoves and grills that make backcountry cookups a much more manageable affair, and the newly launched Pacofire lands as one of the most portable yet. The four-piece stove can be loaded up with burgers and sausages for a feast in the wilderness, and neatly packed down […]
Hovering Tentsile Cabin
Spending the night in a Tentsile tree tent can be a truly inspiring way to camp, but hovering over the ground in a big mesh dome isn’t so ideal once the frigid, wet, howling weather of winter hits. With the all-new Insulated Cabin, Tentsile supports the ambitions of four-season tree campers with a warm, cozy insulator optimized for camping between fall and […]
Chara Chorder Hopes To Boost Typing Speed On Keyboards
Last year we told you about the CharaChorder Lite, a special keyboard that lets users type faster by using groupings of keys to represent entire words. Well, any keyboard can now do that, if it’s equipped with the CharaChorder X. To recap our previous coverage, the CharaChorder Lite keyboard (made by Texas-based startup CharaChorder) can be used like a regular keyboard, with words […]
Giant Launches Urban E-Bike
Taiwan’s Giant Bicycles has launched a tough-looking urban ebike called the Stormguard E+ that’s designed to tackle daily commutes, shopping trips into town or off-road adventures beyond the city limits in full-suspension comfort. Described by Giant as the SUV of ebikes, the versatile Stormguard E+ benefits from full Fox suspension with 100 mm of travel front and back, plus there’s […]
Silent Carbon Fiber Yacht
Silent Yachts offers some of the most impressive electric innovations on water, particularly its solarized battery-powered catamarans that glide with kite assistance and dock in floating villas. Realizing that buyers spending seven figures on an all-electric yacht would undoubtedly prefer a clean, quiet all-electric tender to go along with it, the company presents the all-new Silenter Tender 400. The small electric tender can carry up […]
London’s New Skyline Elevator
Following the renovation of London’s Battersea Power Station, Ralph Appelbaum Associates’ much-anticipated Lift 109 has finally opened to the public. The one-of-a-kind experience consists of a glass elevator ride that provides 360-degree views of the city skyline from the top of one of the building’s iconic chimneys. The project, which also involves Otis and Squint/Opera, is named Lift 109 in honor […]
AI-Driven Suicide Drone
Israeli defence tech company Elbit Systems has launched a lethal, autonomous suicide drone. The Lanius is an agile racing quad with a range of AI-powered scouting, mapping and target classification abilities, and the ability to explode when required. Quadcopter drones are becoming a staple of modern warfare, as exemplified in the current Ukraine conflict. It’s easy to see why; they’re […]
Which One Is Better? Solar Or Electric Cars?
Which is better: solar or electric cars? You buy either one these days, so let’s take a look at the best choices on either side of the sustainable cars divide. Here are some top picks for solar cars and electric cars, and which one will be the right choice for you. How do solar cars work? Difference Between describes solar cars as “electric […]
Home Compostable Plastic Don’t Really Biodegrade
If you’ve ever been turning over your compost heap and found months-old “compostable” plastic items that were still mostly intact – well, you’re not alone. New research states that 60% of such plastics don’t fully biodegrade in home composting systems. The findings are the result of a study undertaken by scientists from University College London, which began with ordinary citizens […]