Design
Zeal Develops No-Petroleum Sunglasses from Castor Bean Oil
Sunglass lovers can now wear no-petroleum glasses designed from castor bean oil. Now that brings to the accessories arena a major shift from those plastic, metal or glass-made goggles. In case you didn’t now, the earliest forms of eyewear were made of wood, and the first hit pairs were those that had pieces of glass to peep through. Colorado-based Zeal has ...
Wedding Dress Made from Bread Bag Clips Collected Over a Decade
Every woman wants to make her wedding dress different, for it’s the most precious dress in her life. Victorian bride Stephanie Watson is no different. But for her, it took almost 10 years to make her dream wedding dress which is entirely made up of over 10,000 plastic bread bag clips. Stephanie Watson, a 29-year-old fashion designer from Trentham, Austraila, has been ...
Electric Cykno Bike to Steal the Show at Milan Design Week
The idea of an electric bike is not new. But a vintage looking stylish electric bike will be a new experience for any cyclist. Cykno, a funky electric bike, will be one of the main attractions on the streets of Milan during the Design Week from April 9 to 14, 2013. The word Cykno is a Greek-Latin mix which means ...
Tesla Getting a Third Row of Seats for Kids
The Tesla electric-powered sedan is getting a three-row seating and will be an ultimately family EV. Don’t worry, if you have ordered a Model S without the third row kid seats, you can get them later. According to Consumer Reports, the kid seats for Tesla S have come in stock and were installed by a Tesla service center in Queens, New ...
AgustaWestland Rolls Out World’s First Electric-Tilt Rotor Aircraft
AgustaWestland’s electric-tilt rotor aircraft, the world’s first, can take off and land like a helicopter, but fly like an airplane – much like the more famous Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey. It’s called Project Zero, and it follows AgustaWestland’s belief that tilt rotor technology is the best layout for the future of fast vertical-lift aircraft. AgustaWestland has had experience with the tilt ...
ZBoard Skateboards are Powered by the Foot
Skateboards are now days used as a means for short distant travel. If one finds balance on a skateboard, it becomes extremely easy to glide on it. So what’s new about the new arrival on that terrain. Christened ZBoard, this one is a weight-sensing electric skateboard that can be rode simply by leaning forward on the front footpad. The board ...
Hushamok Hammock Offers Womb-like Security for Newborn Babies
A peaceful sleep is the first wish of any mother of a newborn baby and the Hushamok baby hammocks offers the same for you and your baby. An alternative to the traditional baby bassinet, the new Hushamok organic baby hammocks offer womb-like security and feeling to the newborn. Its natural swinging and rocking motion induces sleep in babies and gives ...
Osaka Streets See Old Phone Booths Turn Goldfish Tanks
What do you do with the trash-worthy telephone booths? You obviously hurl them in the dumps, right? Think again, as did the Kingyobu group on Japan. What they have done is turn old phone booths into fish tanks. A great idea, indeed! Today in many cities, phone booths have been disappearing as most people prefer to carry cell phones. The Japanese ...
Recycled Bottle Caps Turned into Design Material for House Beautification
Thousands of pieces of waste that would otherwise be obstructing waterways of Siberia have been turned into beautiful and attractive construction material. Olga Kostina, a resient of Kamarchaga village in Russia, has collected old bottle caps to decorate her house. She has decorated her house with them in vivid attractive patterns. This bottle cap house is drawing people and the media ...
Roof Top Villas Built Atop Green Roof Shopping Mall in China
In order to tackle the urban heat island effects, New York has been promoting green tops all through the city. But the city of Zhuzhou in Hunan, China has taken the idea of green roofs a step further by developing villas atop a green roof shopping mall. Zhuzhou has been engaged in a mission of greening its infrastructure after it was ...
