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02-18-2011, 03:35 AM
Hotel offers free mealto guests who are willingto generate electricity
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The Crown Plaza Hotel in Copenhagen , Denmark , is offering a free meal to any guest who is able to produce electricity for the hotel on an exercise bike attached to a generator. Guests will have to produce at least 10 watt hours of electricity - roughly 15 minutes of cycling for someone of average fitness. They will then be given meal vouchers worth $36 (26 euros).
http://65.55.174.199/att/GetInline.aspx?messageid=afac882a-ee51-11df-b0cd-00237de461b8&attindex=1&cp=-1&attdepth=1&imgsrc=cid%3a2.1803644455%40web114711.mail.gq1.yah oo.com&shared=1&hm__login=sedatefrnd&hm__domain=hotmail.com&ip=10.4.26.8&d=d2321&mf=0&hm__ts=Sat%2c%2013%20Nov%202010%2012%3a35%3a31%20G MT&st=sedatefrnd&hm__ha=01_2dc69608671d9511446ba0d0b4afd293466f67fb 0113aad5c1c2384f8384db76&oneredir=1Disco pub gets electricity produced by people dancing at specially modified dance floor
http://www.friendskorner.com/forum/photopost/data/500/image003310.jpg
All the flashing strobes and pounding speakers at the dance club are massive consumers of electrical power. So Bar Surya, in London, re-outfitted its floor with springs that, when compressed by dancers, could produce electrical current that would be stored in batteries and used to offset some of the club's electrical burden. The club's owner, Andrew Charalambous, said the dance floor can now power 60 percent of the club's energy needs.
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http://www.friendskorner.com/forum/photopost/data/500/image00554.jpg
Who says printers only use paper to print documents? It's time for you to meet the PrePeat Printer then. Different from conventional printers, PrePeat adopts a thermal head to print on specially-made plastic sheets. These plastic sheets are not merely water-proof, but could be easily erased, just feed the sheets through the printer again, and a different temperature will erase everything or just write over it. Also claimed by the manufacturer, such one sheet could be used up to 1,000 times so that you'll reduce your expenses on paper for sure.
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http://www.friendskorner.com/forum/photopost/data/500/image00771.jpg
Green design is an enormously popular trend in modern architecture, just take a look at this amazing green roof at the School of Art , Design and Media at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore . This 5-story facility sweeps a wooded corner of the campus with an organic, vegetated form that blends landscape and structure, nature and high-tech and symbolizes the creativity it houses. The roofs serve as informal gathering spaces challenging linear ideas and stirring perception. The roofs create open space, insulate the building, cool the surrounding air and harvest rainwater for landscaping irrigation. Planted grasses mix with native greenery to colonize the building and bond it to the setting.
http://65.55.174.199/att/GetInline.aspx?messageid=afac882a-ee51-11df-b0cd-00237de461b8&attindex=7&cp=-1&attdepth=7&imgsrc=cid%3a8.1803644455%40web114711.mail.gq1.yah oo.com&shared=1&hm__login=sedatefrnd&hm__domain=hotmail.com&ip=10.4.26.8&d=d2321&mf=0&hm__ts=Sat%2c%2013%20Nov%202010%2012%3a35%3a31%20G MT&st=sedatefrnd&hm__ha=01_989f24d178a1721e4619b12feb8fd47e609fcc8f 92fc99d278faf86f8db30e4a&oneredir=1Designer creates a sink that uses wasted water to grow a plant
http://www.friendskorner.com/forum/photopost/data/500/image00994.jpg
Made of polished stained concrete, the Zen Garden Sink has a channel that allows the water used while washing your hands to water a plant. Created by young Montreal designer Jean-Michel Gauvreau the sink comes in single or double basin model. The sink is designed in a way you won't get your plants all soapy. There is a main drain at the bottom of the basin for soapy grime. Your little plant friend just gets whatever you choose to dole out.
20% of our total domestic energy usage is from hot water for showering and bathing. That's over 6 times the energy usage of domestic lighting. So designer Tommaso Colia came up with his eco-friendly shower design that will force you to get out when you take too long and waste much water. The eco_drop shower features beautiful concentric circles that will rise to force you to stop showering when you take too long, and accordingly save water.
http://65.55.174.199/att/GetInline.aspx?messageid=afac882a-ee51-11df-b0cd-00237de461b8&attindex=9&cp=-1&attdepth=9&imgsrc=cid%3a12.1803644455%40web114711.mail.gq1.ya hoo.com&shared=1&hm__login=sedatefrnd&hm__domain=hotmail.com&ip=10.4.26.8&d=d2321&mf=0&hm__ts=Sat%2c%2013%20Nov%202010%2012%3a35%3a31%20G MT&st=sedatefrnd&hm__ha=01_52beb7e1edf4578ca82e845a9c3ed868f81d955d be2cb4826bf48ed6a4178cba&oneredir=1Designer creates light-switch that changes colors to teach children how to save energy
http://www.friendskorner.com/forum/photopost/data/500/image013131.jpg
Teaching the importance of energy conservation is 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've 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 sav! e.
http://65.55.174.199/att/GetInline.aspx?messageid=afac882a-ee51-11df-b0cd-00237de461b8&attindex=11&cp=-1&attdepth=11&imgsrc=cid%3a14.1803644455%40web114711.mail.gq1.ya hoo.com&shared=1&hm__login=sedatefrnd&hm__domain=hotmail.com&ip=10.4.26.8&d=d2321&mf=0&hm__ts=Sat%2c%2013%20Nov%202010%2012%3a35%3a31%20G MT&st=sedatefrnd&hm__ha=01_60327ef5699e4f082986b710722cb7977714d61f 26d5d96c3e852da4338cece8&oneredir=1Environmental company creates a staple-free stapler to avoid staple pollution
http://www.friendskorner.com/forum/photopost/data/500/image01515.jpg
Staples are supposed to be so bad to the environment that a company decided to create a staple-free stapler. This product promises to make collation eco-friendly. Instead of using those thin metal planet-killers, the staple-free stapler "cuts out tiny strips of paper and uses the strips to stitch up to five pieces of paper together." You can even order them customized with your corporate logo so you can, you know, brag about what your company is doing to stop the staple epidemic.
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http://www.friendskorner.com/forum/photopost/data/500/image017171.jpg
Sauce Dispensing Chopsticks!
http://www.friendskorner.com/forum/photopost/data/500/medium/image019191.jpg
Bottle Opener Remote
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Pizza Scissors
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Finger Guard
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Pillow With Arm Hole
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Self-Locking Bendy Bike
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Retro vision Glasses
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Keyboard Food Tray
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Car Swivel Chair
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Tea Pot Frame
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http://www.friendskorner.com/forum/photopost/data/500/image001181.jpg
The Crown Plaza Hotel in Copenhagen , Denmark , is offering a free meal to any guest who is able to produce electricity for the hotel on an exercise bike attached to a generator. Guests will have to produce at least 10 watt hours of electricity - roughly 15 minutes of cycling for someone of average fitness. They will then be given meal vouchers worth $36 (26 euros).
http://65.55.174.199/att/GetInline.aspx?messageid=afac882a-ee51-11df-b0cd-00237de461b8&attindex=1&cp=-1&attdepth=1&imgsrc=cid%3a2.1803644455%40web114711.mail.gq1.yah oo.com&shared=1&hm__login=sedatefrnd&hm__domain=hotmail.com&ip=10.4.26.8&d=d2321&mf=0&hm__ts=Sat%2c%2013%20Nov%202010%2012%3a35%3a31%20G MT&st=sedatefrnd&hm__ha=01_2dc69608671d9511446ba0d0b4afd293466f67fb 0113aad5c1c2384f8384db76&oneredir=1Disco pub gets electricity produced by people dancing at specially modified dance floor
http://www.friendskorner.com/forum/photopost/data/500/image003310.jpg
All the flashing strobes and pounding speakers at the dance club are massive consumers of electrical power. So Bar Surya, in London, re-outfitted its floor with springs that, when compressed by dancers, could produce electrical current that would be stored in batteries and used to offset some of the club's electrical burden. The club's owner, Andrew Charalambous, said the dance floor can now power 60 percent of the club's energy needs.
http://65.55.174.199/att/GetInline.aspx?messageid=afac882a-ee51-11df-b0cd-00237de461b8&attindex=3&cp=-1&attdepth=3&imgsrc=cid%3a4.1803644455%40web114711.mail.gq1.yah oo.com&shared=1&hm__login=sedatefrnd&hm__domain=hotmail.com&ip=10.4.26.8&d=d2321&mf=0&hm__ts=Sat%2c%2013%20Nov%202010%2012%3a35%3a31%20G MT&st=sedatefrnd&hm__ha=01_33eef94960163c4ce2c5d9ebf7657aa616b24229 77c069137228bbc3e54cb759&oneredir=1Company creates a desktop printer that doesn't use ink nor paper
http://www.friendskorner.com/forum/photopost/data/500/image00554.jpg
Who says printers only use paper to print documents? It's time for you to meet the PrePeat Printer then. Different from conventional printers, PrePeat adopts a thermal head to print on specially-made plastic sheets. These plastic sheets are not merely water-proof, but could be easily erased, just feed the sheets through the printer again, and a different temperature will erase everything or just write over it. Also claimed by the manufacturer, such one sheet could be used up to 1,000 times so that you'll reduce your expenses on paper for sure.
http://65.55.174.199/att/GetInline.aspx?messageid=afac882a-ee51-11df-b0cd-00237de461b8&attindex=5&cp=-1&attdepth=5&imgsrc=cid%3a6.1803644455%40web114711.mail.gq1.yah oo.com&shared=1&hm__login=sedatefrnd&hm__domain=hotmail.com&ip=10.4.26.8&d=d2321&mf=0&hm__ts=Sat%2c%2013%20Nov%202010%2012%3a35%3a31%20G MT&st=sedatefrnd&hm__ha=01_5ea563f37e19f073671be2069c883a0d4636d938 59fdb9009914a0d06d434174&oneredir=1University constructs a green roof as a gathering place
http://www.friendskorner.com/forum/photopost/data/500/image00771.jpg
Green design is an enormously popular trend in modern architecture, just take a look at this amazing green roof at the School of Art , Design and Media at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore . This 5-story facility sweeps a wooded corner of the campus with an organic, vegetated form that blends landscape and structure, nature and high-tech and symbolizes the creativity it houses. The roofs serve as informal gathering spaces challenging linear ideas and stirring perception. The roofs create open space, insulate the building, cool the surrounding air and harvest rainwater for landscaping irrigation. Planted grasses mix with native greenery to colonize the building and bond it to the setting.
http://65.55.174.199/att/GetInline.aspx?messageid=afac882a-ee51-11df-b0cd-00237de461b8&attindex=7&cp=-1&attdepth=7&imgsrc=cid%3a8.1803644455%40web114711.mail.gq1.yah oo.com&shared=1&hm__login=sedatefrnd&hm__domain=hotmail.com&ip=10.4.26.8&d=d2321&mf=0&hm__ts=Sat%2c%2013%20Nov%202010%2012%3a35%3a31%20G MT&st=sedatefrnd&hm__ha=01_989f24d178a1721e4619b12feb8fd47e609fcc8f 92fc99d278faf86f8db30e4a&oneredir=1Designer creates a sink that uses wasted water to grow a plant
http://www.friendskorner.com/forum/photopost/data/500/image00994.jpg
Made of polished stained concrete, the Zen Garden Sink has a channel that allows the water used while washing your hands to water a plant. Created by young Montreal designer Jean-Michel Gauvreau the sink comes in single or double basin model. The sink is designed in a way you won't get your plants all soapy. There is a main drain at the bottom of the basin for soapy grime. Your little plant friend just gets whatever you choose to dole out.
20% of our total domestic energy usage is from hot water for showering and bathing. That's over 6 times the energy usage of domestic lighting. So designer Tommaso Colia came up with his eco-friendly shower design that will force you to get out when you take too long and waste much water. The eco_drop shower features beautiful concentric circles that will rise to force you to stop showering when you take too long, and accordingly save water.
http://65.55.174.199/att/GetInline.aspx?messageid=afac882a-ee51-11df-b0cd-00237de461b8&attindex=9&cp=-1&attdepth=9&imgsrc=cid%3a12.1803644455%40web114711.mail.gq1.ya hoo.com&shared=1&hm__login=sedatefrnd&hm__domain=hotmail.com&ip=10.4.26.8&d=d2321&mf=0&hm__ts=Sat%2c%2013%20Nov%202010%2012%3a35%3a31%20G MT&st=sedatefrnd&hm__ha=01_52beb7e1edf4578ca82e845a9c3ed868f81d955d be2cb4826bf48ed6a4178cba&oneredir=1Designer creates light-switch that changes colors to teach children how to save energy
http://www.friendskorner.com/forum/photopost/data/500/image013131.jpg
Teaching the importance of energy conservation is 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've 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 sav! e.
http://65.55.174.199/att/GetInline.aspx?messageid=afac882a-ee51-11df-b0cd-00237de461b8&attindex=11&cp=-1&attdepth=11&imgsrc=cid%3a14.1803644455%40web114711.mail.gq1.ya hoo.com&shared=1&hm__login=sedatefrnd&hm__domain=hotmail.com&ip=10.4.26.8&d=d2321&mf=0&hm__ts=Sat%2c%2013%20Nov%202010%2012%3a35%3a31%20G MT&st=sedatefrnd&hm__ha=01_60327ef5699e4f082986b710722cb7977714d61f 26d5d96c3e852da4338cece8&oneredir=1Environmental company creates a staple-free stapler to avoid staple pollution
http://www.friendskorner.com/forum/photopost/data/500/image01515.jpg
Staples are supposed to be so bad to the environment that a company decided to create a staple-free stapler. This product promises to make collation eco-friendly. Instead of using those thin metal planet-killers, the staple-free stapler "cuts out tiny strips of paper and uses the strips to stitch up to five pieces of paper together." You can even order them customized with your corporate logo so you can, you know, brag about what your company is doing to stop the staple epidemic.
http://65.55.174.199/att/GetInline.aspx?messageid=afac882a-ee51-11df-b0cd-00237de461b8&attindex=13&cp=-1&attdepth=13&imgsrc=cid%3a16.1803644455%40web114711.mail.gq1.ya hoo.com&shared=1&hm__login=sedatefrnd&hm__domain=hotmail.com&ip=10.4.26.8&d=d2321&mf=0&hm__ts=Sat%2c%2013%20Nov%202010%2012%3a35%3a31%20G MT&st=sedatefrnd&hm__ha=01_8c02463f5ca89750eb70e3cd0d069fae176128f6 6d2f76f175bf2054e3e7e2fc&oneredir=1Designer creates an iPhone charger powered by a hand grip
http://www.friendskorner.com/forum/photopost/data/500/image017171.jpg
Sauce Dispensing Chopsticks!
http://www.friendskorner.com/forum/photopost/data/500/medium/image019191.jpg
Bottle Opener Remote
http://www.friendskorner.com/forum/photopost/data/500/medium/image01818.jpg
Pizza Scissors
http://www.friendskorner.com/forum/photopost/data/500/medium/image02323.jpg
Finger Guard
http://www.friendskorner.com/forum/photopost/data/500/medium/image022221.jpg
Pillow With Arm Hole
http://www.friendskorner.com/forum/photopost/data/500/medium/image021211.jpg
Self-Locking Bendy Bike
http://www.friendskorner.com/forum/photopost/data/500/medium/image020201.jpg
Retro vision Glasses
http://www.friendskorner.com/forum/photopost/data/500/medium/image02424.jpg
Keyboard Food Tray
http://www.friendskorner.com/forum/photopost/data/500/medium/image02727.jpg
Car Swivel Chair
http://www.friendskorner.com/forum/photopost/data/500/medium/image02525.jpg
Tea Pot Frame
http://www.friendskorner.com/forum/photopost/data/500/medium/image02626.jpg