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What can be done with the old and spoilt hard-drives that keep piling up in trash cans and dump yards? Turn them into awesome artistic sculptures! It might sound strange, but that is exactly what a systems administrator, Miguel Rivera did. He gathered a stack of used drives, gutted them and turned them into bikes, cars and robots. Amazing, isn’t it? [...]

Accidental discoveries are not new to the scientific community. To prove this fact time and again, the researchers at Tel Aviv University who started out to find a cure to Alzheimer’s flipped on to a new revolution in the field of nanotechnology that might just mean better solar power. With the newly invented self-cleaning solar panels, you might [...]

Canal boats happen to be one among the popular tourist attractions of Amsterdam even today. No wonder the city sees over 100 canal cruises each day, which makes it more important to find greener ways of doing it. To initiate this drive, the Amsterdam canal saw its first fuel cell powered canal boat, the “Nemo H2? make its debut cruise through its [...]

Architect Pierre Minassian of aum chose to call this adorable adobe ‘The Biscuit House’ after the first French magazine who published it termed the composed shapes of its exterior ‘biscuits’. Now, you must be wondering, what brought this house here? So, let’s see- Located outside a small village near the French town Lyon, this two-floor house [...]

The peel of citrus fruits has since long been used for many purposes which include cooking, flavoring, beauty products, etc… It is known to have amazing properties like anti-bacterial, anti-oxidant, cholesterol-lowering and many more, but never has the idea of turning it into an alternative fuel source struck any of us until the researchers headed [...]

Sky-scrapers, shopping malls, traffic lights, automobiles, pollution- the current outdoors are slowly losing the nature’s beauty to development and modernization and people are digging out ways to bring this very beauty closer to their lives, into their homes. The Leaf Lamp is just one among those designs inspired by the Mother Nature’s gardens. This [...]

This is an era of simple yet modern broad-spectrum interiors which not just appeal to the tastes of the residents, but tend to their multiple needs within a room’s space. What we see here is designer Michal Mitek’s visualization of how the bathroom of the future would probably look like- a multi-purpose restroom that gives recreation with relaxation [...]

Managing with its small amount of resources and increasing demand for fuels, Japan is one of those countries of the world that largely depends on renewable sources for energy consumption. No wonder this yearning led the country to launch an audacious multi-billion dollar eco-friendly concept, the Space Solar Power System (SSPS) that would take form [...]

Someone once rightly said, “Simplicity is indeed often the sign of truth and a criterion of beauty” and to prove this fact time and again, architects at Maryann Thompson created this beautiful zero impact home that is not just down-to-earth, but would surely bring its residents the contentment of environmental conservation. Recipient of the LEED [...]

The present fast paced lifestyle demands multi-functional centers which provide a shared hybrid place to cater to the needs of people. In unison, we also need these places to be equally environment-friendly. Organized around the concept of sharing and synergy, Denmark’s House of Music designed by Coop Himmelb(l)au is one such solar passive design [...]