Eco Friendly Guide

Specially designed to hover at a height of over six miles on solar power, the Integrated Sensor Is the Structure (ISIS) is a fully-automated, high-altitude reconnaissance and surveillance blimp that gathers real-time radar data and feeds it to smart..

Are you too unsure of which veggie to pick up and which one to leave? Not anymore, a team of designers has come up with an ingenious method to check the freshness level of the veggies in a supermarket. Supermarkets, a place where loads of vegetable…

Conceived and raised by UT Delft students, The Superbus is an all-electric, carbon-fiber 23-passengers vehicle. Since the bus is capable of cruising at a 130 miles an hour, the commute in future is definitely going to be much faster and…

Siemens has installed a 250-megawatt (MW) renewable energy plant in Egypt’s Gulf of Suez on the Red Sea coast. At present, Siemens is just behind Denmark’s Vestas, US General Electric, Spain’s Gamesa, Germany’s Enercon and India’s Suzlon, which…

In a press conference yesterday, Yokohama Tire Corporation launched its upgraded environmentally sensitive ADVAN ENV-R2 racing tire in Sebring, Florida. Although the ADVAN ENV-R1 introduced in 2009 was eco-friendly, the new product is greener. It…

Work on two (out of four) art projects, proposed by Dutch sculptor Ap Verheggen for areas facing the brunt of climate change, is in full swing. Just recently, some crew members have erected two huge metal sculptures in Uummannaq in western Greenland..

Wellington designer Matt Hammond and his business partner Duncan Forbes have installed an innovative cycle sculpture outside the Chaffers New World, in Wellington. The urban sculpture, dubbed as Bikerakk, is made from a steel frame sheathed in rubber.

A team of mechanical engineering students from the State University of New York has found a way of recovering the vibrational energy from vehicles as they speed over road bumps. Currently, they are developing a regenerative shock absorber that…

Looking at the growing demand of push- and ride-based mowers, Fiskars, a leading brand that provides functional, user-friendly and lasting design solutions, has come up with a mower that utilizes green technology. The Fiskars Momentum Reel Mower is…

Sand sculpture artists model sand into artistic forms to create miniature buildings, castles, human figures, and so on. Lest you keep strolling down the beaches to have a glimpse of these artworks and don’t come across any of them, we have a…