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Creative Energy Conservation with Switches Too Gross to Turn On (Video)
A clever designer has come up with great ways to get us to conserve energy. They built switches that keep us from wanting to, or being able to turn the electricity on in the first place. From switches that have little hairs stretch
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Turning Off Electronics Is an Old Green Trick With a New Big Impact
Turning off lights when we're not using them is an old, well-known way of saving electricity. So old, in fact, that it's become a bit cliche to mention it as a way of trimming energy consumption. Bigger impacts
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Illumitex Wants to Make Your Lightbulbs Square (and More Efficient)
Photo: Illumitex Brilliant Idea Unless we want to see most of human civilization shut down as soon as the sun sets, we'll have to keep finding ways to produce artificial light. But how can we do that in a way that uses as little energy as possible and
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Japanese Gov't Urges the Extinction of Night Owls
While the environmental impact from fuels like gas and coal are well-known, Japan has now set its sights on folks who burn the midnight oil. In hopes of reducing the nation's carbon output, the Japanese Environment Ministry
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Light Bulbs To Get Nutrition-Style Labels Next Year
Late last year we reported that the US Federal Trade Commission proposed a new label for compact fluorescent lightbulbs that would show vital statistics like mercury content and the light output in terms of lumens rather than watts, which
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Hot New Trend: Old Fashioned Incandescent Lightbulbs
What's hot in restaurant design these days? Retro light bulbs, of the old, carbon-filament power-sucking kind. And the warmer the light, the less efficient they are, some running under 2 lumens per watt. (a fluorescent
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Pinwheel Concept Lights Up With Wind Power. So Why Is It Called Solarlight?
It's called the Solarlight but it has nothing to do with sunlight. It actually generates electricity with wind power. The concept by designer Eon Tae Yoon is a way to teach children about sustainability for energy generation;
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Can a Tiny Weatherproof Solar Light Bulb Replace Kerosene Lights?
One small solar lightbulb is looking to be the solution to replace billions of polluting kerosene lamps. According to the Nokero Solar Light Bulb manufacturers, over 1.6 billion people still use fuel-burning devices to get
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Amazing Lamp Powered by Algae, Water, and Your Breath
Treehugger has noted before how one can generate electricity from algae; Now Designboom shows a lamp designed by Mike Thompson that uses the principle. Place the lamp outside and the algae generates electricity during
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Trash Me Lamps Take on Grave-to-Grave Design
We've all heard of cradle-to-cradle design, which is design that mimics natural life cycles during which something is made of materials, runs its useful life cycle, and at the end of that useful life cycle, becomes material
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Clerkenwell Design Week Offers a Taste of the New
Clerkenwell is an edgy part of London's east end where many of the design showrooms, architects and design professionals hang their hats. For three short days they held a mini-festival: opening their doors to
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Graypants, the Kings of Cardboard, Move into Metal
We have been fans of Seattle's Graypants for a while; Seth, Jonathan and Jon "strive to come up with designs and ideas that are thoughtful and have an impact, whether it be furniture, lighting, architecture or graphics." Most of the work we have shown
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Elegant Lightform Shades Use Digital Technique To Make Every Piece Unique
Digital design and fabrication makes things possible that could only be dreamt of earlier. Dwell shows a lampshade that is not only designed using computers, but students at Ball State's Institute for Digital Fabrication wrote a program that modifies
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Stainless Steel Solar Lantern Is Fancy, But We Have Something Even Better
Oasis has put out a beautiful solar powered lantern. It's stainless steel, has high and low settings, and can charge up via sunlight - though it takes 12-24 hours of light to get a full battery. The lantern sports 12 LEDs and can
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OLED Chandelier Brings a New Level of Fancy to Homes
The 2010 LightFair International is rich with innovative lighting, but one item of particular interest is this OLED Chandelier for luxury homes, a Responsible Lighting product from W.A.C. Lighting. Called SOL, the company says it
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MusicLite Combines Audio System and LED Bulb in One Fixture. The Question is: Why?
When I first head about the MusicLite from Osram Sylvania, combining an LED light fixture with a wireless sound system, I was reminded of Saturday Night Live with Chevy Chase selling Shimmer! "It's a floor wax! No, it's dessert topping!" But in fact it
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What The Heck is OLET Technology, and Will It Replace OLEDs?
OLED technology is promising for more energy efficient, colorful, thin, and light-weight lighting and display technology. From cell phone screens to massive billboards, OLEDs are touted as the future. But there are already
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Uh Oh. Katy Perry Gives Electronic Clothing Celeb Attention with LED Dress
Electronic clothing has been getting a lot of attention lately - at least from designers, who are crafting everything from functional jackets for cyclists that light up with turn signals to dresses that flicker like fireflies when the wind hits it. And
