Tag: Appliances - Page 3
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New NatureMill XE Series of Automatic Composters
Image: NatureMill Mounding kitchen scraps in the backyard is all well and good, but we've got nothing against letting technology speed up nature's progress. NatureMill first blipped on our radar back in 2005, and has been steadily improving its automated
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Oops! Montreal Protocol Solutions May Be Causing Global Warming
The Montreal Protocol, signed in 1987, had the very
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Are Young People Our Future If They're Also the Most Wasteful?
According to a recent survey, it looks like the under-24 crowd is guilty of being the most energy and water wasteful demographic. The reason is that they have simply no idea how much energy or water certain household
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When it Comes to Fridges, Small is the New Big.
Architect Donald Chong taught us that Small Fridges Make Good Cities, so what does that make the Meneghini Cambusa? the Robert Moses of Fridges? the Godzilla of iceboxes?
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Getting Wired Without Electricity: The Hourglass Coffee Maker
Image via RT Sales, Inc. If you are able to look into the future at least 12 hours, and want to cut the electricity or natural gas out of your coffee-brewing workflow, then check out the Hourglass. We first saw this gadget over at Dvice. It doesn't take
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Enviro-Bear 2010: Operation Hibernation for iPhone
Just when I thought I knew every app available for Apple's iPhone, I stumble across Enviro-Bear 2010: Operation Hibernation. If you've been searching for a quasi-green video game for your multimedia smartphone well,
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The Toaster Project: Art Student Builds a Toaster From Scratch
Thomas Thwaites is a student at the Royal College of Art in London with an interesting project: he is trying to build a toaster. "from scratch - beginning by mining the raw materials and ending
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Just What We Needed Dept: The Rotato
Sometimes we just slap ourselves upside the head and say "how did I ever live without that?" That is why we have such big kitchens- to house our garlic express, our soda can disenfector, butter cutter and the automatic martini maker. But now we have to
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Colo Integrates Dishwasher, Sink and Storage
This is the way we should think about design. In most kitchens, there is a cupboard, a sink and a dishwasher. You empty the dishwasher by moving everything to the cupboard. Peter Schwartz and Helene Steiner of Wachshaus integrate them all together in
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GE Demonstrated Smart Appliances (Video)
General Electric has been trialling their smart grid enabled appliances in Louisville, Kentucky, and is six months in to the project. The results have shown exactly what anyone would have suspected -
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More from The Metropolis Conference at ICFF
The Metropolis conference at ICFF was entitled Design Entrepreneurs: INNOVATE, and in the afternoon sessions Susan Szenasy introduced us to product innovators like Professor Richard Wool of the
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Carry-Na: Good Design Comes to the Seniors Set
all images by Dave Pinter of PSFK
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Scientists a Step Closer to Super Magnets for Energy-Efficient Refrigerators
Using magnetism for energy efficient cooling is one option for more eco-friendly refrigeration and air conditioning, but the ideal material to accomplish this hasn't been uncovered yet.
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Double the Pleasure: Sex Toys Added to Planet Green Sex Guide
Time for some green action in the bedroom: And honey, we're not talking about bamboo sheets or beds made entirely of wood. Did you know most manufacturers load vibrators and dildos with phthalates--toxic chemical softeners used in
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Rice Husk Insulation To Make Fridges 50% More Efficient
Your next refrigerator might be sheathed in renewable rice, if a team of students from the University of Michigan have anything to do with it. With just 12.5mm (half inch of rice husk ash they reckon they can achieve the equivalent of over 100mm (4
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This Post Burned Two Trees, Endangered Three Species, and Created One Dime-Sized Hole in the Atmosphere
Okay, so this heading is far fetched by quite a stretch of imagination, but it poses a very interesting question for us green bloggers and green websites in general. If information is power and the spreading
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Dyson's Plans for Kitchen Domination
The brilliant designer James Dyson has applied for another patent to clean up our kitchens. The Dyson Team complains about the different shapes of toasters, kettles and other appliances in the New Scientist: "Due to their various different shapes and
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Microwave or Toaster Oven, Which is the Greener Kitchen Gadget?
So you've noticed that you can save a lot of energy by switching from ovens to smaller cooking devices like a microwave or toaster oven when reheating food. But...which is better, the microwave or the toaster oven? We're taking a closer look to see
