No Shortage of Alternative Energy Innovations at West Coast Green 2008
by Jaymi Heimbuch, Central Coast, California on 09.29.08
Ricardo Baiáo has some very cool concepts for products that utilize alternative renewable energy sources. A solar powered outdoor stereo system, a futuristic golf car-style EV, and a kinetically charged cell phone are three of the ideas shown of at the Innovation Pipeline of West Coast Green 2008.
The Sunflower - pictured above - is a cd player and loudspeaker system that charges via sunlight. It's a cool-looking way to have a renewably powered party on your patio. The concept is just one of many bouncing around in Baiáo's head. Get a closer look at his other innovations after the jump.
The Atlas cell phone uses kinetic energy to charge up.
It’s all made of aluminum and glass. The central sapphire glass reveals the generating and charging unit. Power comes from kinetic energy similar to that found in watches that use oscillating weight to power a mainspring.
The Dauphin is a futuristic way of getting around town.
Peugeot Dauphin is a pure electric vehicle. It can be charged at home just like a cellular phone and the full charge takes just a little over six hours. An Electric vehicle with two magnetic motors designed to run almost noiselessly for as far as 300 kilometers on one charge. The Dauphin communicates wirelessly with your home computer ( internet server ), and you can receive information when ever you need it, maps, directions, phone calls.
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Nice wheels. I would really like to get my hands on an extended model of that. doubt if that device could fit a 6'2 human wall like me.
the speakers ?!! I wonder how effective thoes will be. I mean if it has to be outdoors, it had better be pretty powerful. and if it is, then it being powerd by that Solar PV ?? add to that a CD playeer?? wow. either its an all style little / no function unit or Ricardo has done a fabulous job of making an xtremely efficient device. looks futuristic tho. I thought it was a thumb scanner at first glance...
the mobile could do with a make over looks wise. personally it doesn't grab me. the number panel is a bit awkward. step in the right direction though. nokia had a competition regarding design work a couple of years ago. One of the entries had come up with this very nice looking fone with a hand crank. Crank it a few times and the device would run for a few hours. That could be adapted to this idea....
Nice round up, but ... "kineticly"?! That's embarrassing.
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