Tag: Environmental
Carbon Fiber Stormtroopers: Star Wars Gets High Tech
In case you don't know what carbon fiber is, I will quickly explain it. Carbon fiber is a high tech, super strong material that has gotten very popular over the past few years. Many times it's used to make expensive gear designed for people with discriminating taste, but that's only because the mate ...
The Age Of The UnPrinter
It's amazing how much we depend on our printer these days. It's the backbone of every business. Most of our dealings, business and knowledge were shared by this groundbreaking invention when it first came out as a matrix printer. Back then it was all about pixel line-by-pixel line printing, which wa ...
Learn How To Help The Environment On Facebook
People often ask me, "What do you really do for a living?" I usually tell them that I work in an advertising agency. I am part of a team that does digital work for various clients. When I try to explain my work sometimes, it is still hard for them to understand. I am pretty lucky that I truly en ...
The Wearable Plant: Is It Fashion or Foliage?
The reason I write about plants on Bit Rebels is because it's as close as I can get to actually having them. I stopped buying plants a few years ago because I always accidentally kill them. And then, after they are dead, I go through the whole emotional spectrum like when I was six and I killed my ...
How To: Eat Your Drink and Get Rid Of The Dishes!
You're having a party and everyone's invited. However, all you can think about is how you will have to do all those dishes after everyone leaves. Sometimes this little obstacle can be the sole reason why people don't invite people (or at least too many of them) to their parties. It's a good reaso ...
Meet the 13-Year-Old Real Life Spiderman
Vacuum cleaners are boring, aren't they? They are noisy, cumbersome and collect nasty dust. I'm so happy to see someone do something inspiring with a couple of vacuum cleaners.
13-year-old Hibiki Kona has always wanted to be just like Spiderman. He took his dream, five months, and two $22 recy ...
When Design Gets Trashy – The Egg Carton Lamp
As the world gets more and more environmentally friendly, we are getting even more things that are constructed by trash and recycled items. You don't have to really like it to appreciate it, but there is a flaw in the whole process of getting the end user to actually go out and get some of those it ...
Crazy Cool Phone Book Sculptures – Recycling Inspiration
Does anyone really use phone books anymore? I know I haven't in years. The moment I get them, I immediately throw them in the recycle bin. My mother is the only person I know that still uses a phone book. Everyone else I know uses the Internet to find phone numbers.
Treehugger.com featured an ...
The Climate Dress – Monitoring Pollution Never Looked So Good
Once again, fashion and environmental awareness collide and the result is this: The Climate Dress. There was a lot of thought, planning and love put into this dress. The technology is a collaboration between the Copenhagen design studio Diffus, the Swiss embroidery company Forster-Rohner, the Dan ...
Water Dialer | Call Your Water And You Shall Receive
The "dialer" is one heck of a retro function that I thought I would never ever see again incorporated into any new products. Sure, the iPhone has an app that enables you to dial your numbers instead of just clicking, but I don't know if that is to incorporate that feature on the iPhone. Nah, I thi ...
Coca Cola Goes EcoCoke | The Genius Future Of A Trusted Brand
My last article about Coca Cola's "should be" effort of becoming a more environmentally aware brand was both highly appreciated as well as unlikely according to some of the comments. Apparently many of the people that made those comments believe that Coca Cola, being one of the most exclusive and w ...
The Geeky QWERTY Notebooks Are Sure To Inspire
Notebooks are considered computers nowadays and every time we refer to something called a notebook it is without hesitation a picture of a laptop of some kind that pops up in our heads. Even when querying "Notebook" on Google the results are in great favor of the small laptop. What has become of the ...
The New Light Bulb Needs No Electricity To Light Up
It's been a while since I have visited this realm of electricity and how we can potentially make an environmental difference, so I thought I would dig up something worthwhile to share with you. I really think I found something quite interesting to tell you about. I remember reporting about a new k ...
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