the water bottle with a light in the lid. The LightCap is one-liter water bottle with solar powered LED light. The cap has a built-in waterproof solar panel, battery pack and LED light.
posted by SKB at 1:47 PM
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BBC World, Newsweek, and Shell present the World Challenge 2006, a competition aiming to find individuals or groups from around the world who have shown enterprise and innovation. You can let them know about that project you are aware and believe it deserves recognition. Winning entries will receive juicy prices to beneffit the projects.
posted by Oriol P. at 11:04 PM
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"In objects typical of the domestic or personal sphere, such as lamps, refrigerators, mobile phones, energy is often left either to the user’s own devices (in the choice, for instance, of a light bulb or brand) or it is an invisible aspect of ongoing product experience that shows up in periodic electricity bills, when power runs out or is shut off. Electricity, as a product, is easily reduced to an abstract, invisible phenomenon whose only concrete representations are ‘two holes in the wall’. In a series of design examples, we explore how everyday products might be designed to better express – and thus stimulate reflection on – daily or long-term patterns of energy use"
posted by Oriol P. at 11:34 AM
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Weblog from the Design for Sustainability program at Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering of Delft University of Technology with news and sustainable design activities from all over the world.
