Articles tagged with: Environment Friendly
Posted in Eco-Friendly, Gadgets, Recycling on 5 July 2008
Simplicity touches our hearts like nothing else. Especially in a world full of myriad designs, multitudes of complex patterns and hi-fi stuff brought daily into our homes, one definitely longs for the simple joys of life! However, sometimes making simple things requires complexity as well Gregory Siegal’s Coffee Clock is an example of a simplicity and complexity working synergistically. This eco-friendly clock is recycled from three different things: a discarded French press, a coffee mug and a small alarm clock.
Posted in Eco-friendly products, Gadgets on 5 July 2008
It’s the ultimate style statement for your iPod. The name is Shades by ShadesCases Inc. Body- extremely thin, stylish and light iPod cases; protects your new iPod from the harsh elements during handling and revitalizes your older model! With such near zero sizes and lightweight material, you won’t be lugging extra pounds while you are working out or running with Shades.
Girth - just .4mm thin.
Weighs - only .42 ounces.
Posted in Eco-Friendly, Eco-friendly products, Green on 5 July 2008
The land of rising sun- Japan brings a new fluorescent lamp. This one’s not the run-of-the-mill kinds for it is made in a manner where the bulb of the lamp can be separated into lighting circuit unit and an arc tube unit. This bulb-shaped lamp is an outcome of JV between Hitachi Lighting Ltd and Seiyo Company Ltd. It truly represents that joint ventures between two biggies of the industry can be so eco-friendly! The USP of the product is its power saving feature. The design being such that it requires approximately 1/5th of the amount of copper used in lighting circuit in previous bulb-shaped fluorescent lamp produced by Hitachi. Less copper and more lighting. Wow!
Other features include a shelf life of 10,000 hours. Since the arc tube unit is replaceable, the lighting circuit unit can be repeatedly used. This unit has an overall life of about 30,000 hrs. What’s more? The arc tube can be replaced three times for one lighting circuit unit.
Posted in Eco-Friendly, Eco-friendly products, Environment on 4 July 2008
Today a new feather has been added in the cap of Japan’s innovativeness with the commencement of shipping of “Zero” (line of eco-friendly products) by Strapya World. The company believes in the concept of sustainable society and has thus launched a range of cellphone cases, cleaners and straps that are recycled from tyre tubes!!!