Inhabitat's Week in Green: electric cars, solar planes, and really sweet lights
While the iPad and its kin are making waves today, we can't wait to see the next generation of devices that implement Sony's new energy-efficient OLED displays, which are thinner than a strand of human hair.
This week Inhabitat also showcased an incredible spectrum of eco-efficient repurposed designs as we unveiled 23 finalists in our Spring Greening DIY Design Contest. Perhaps you recycle your cardboard and Coke cans, but if you're looking for a bit of inspiration from master design-recyclers check out this pendant lamp made from hundreds of soda tabs, this Cone Light made from repurposed traffic cones, and this chandelier composed almost entirely of six-pack rings. We were also wowed by these garments made from recycled video tape that showcase an analogue take on high-tech couture and this stunning lamp made from strips of old film.
Solar flashlight! Works in direct sunlight!
If the world's energy requirements continue to grow at 3% year on year, in 3000 years the human race will need the total energy output of.........
....... yep. you guessed it: the sun.
thanks for playing.
@buoy
3000 years, please, in the next 300 years we will be inhabiting other solar systems.
@BrianH as an optimist we can all see the "star trek" future that's been laid out to us countless times - but i have another view. one of conservatism and stealth. after we decrypt and understand dna, human consciousness, the transference of consciousness to "virtual" worlds, our civilisation may be reduced to enigmatic mainframes, or in fact the evolution of what we see now as "the internet". relegating our visual appearance to other intelligent life to mere "moss on rock" and powered by supercomputers the size of dust, we simply exist in the ether... far far more ambitious than star trekking across the galaxy in my mind :)
still... we may need more and more power to progress from a type 0 to type I and then type II civilisation. See Dyson spheres for more information on this fantastic line of thought.
ps: wonder where we'd be in 100 years :) or even 10 years, the rate the technology is exploding. cheers to human ingenuity.
@buoy
so instead of star trek, you're going with the matrix...
@woshishui. Don't make me destroy you
Light Emitting Poly-saccharides would make really sweet lights!
ZZZZZZZZZZ This green movement is getting old!
Gore lied, greenies cried!
What is an ipad? Green personal hiegene?
wait isn't film strips highly flammable?
That hangar probably costs more then the planes inside it.
@murc if it was real... that's just a picture of a model.
wow, it's even uglier than the first prius