We’ve seen a few massive solar farms pop up out west, but it looks like Southern California Edison is taking a different approach: instead of cluttering up the desert, the company plans to build a distributed solar array on the rooftops of commercial buildings throughout SoCal. The plan is to spend $875M over five years [...]

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Eco-friendly buildings are all the rage among high-profile architects these days. The latest example is the new Clean Technology Tower in Chicago, designed by Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill architectural firm.What makes the Clean Technology Tower stand out is its huge rooftop solar shell, which sucks up juice from the sun all day. Underneath it [...]

Sometimes time flies with the speed of light. Sometimes only with the speed of a butterfly.

This beautiful wall clock is designed by Pascal Tarabay, who was born in Lebanon, later studied and worked in Italy, and is available - in many colours - at Design Shop UK.

Here’s a little peek into what the future might hold for London – a 500-high-foot building housing a 100,000 people! Reports predict that by 2015, London will need to provide housing for a million more people; UK-Company Popular Architecture is proposing the idea of building this tower that will be so big it will [...]

Here’s a nice way to light up your desk at home of at the office, using only the power from the USB port of the computer to make the three LEDs shine.
Features:

Mini USB light with 3 LEDs
Powered by USB port
Touch power On/Off
Flexible metal gooseneck
Dimension: 6cm dia x 38cm tall
Weight: 157g

The USB Mini Desktop LED [...]

This clever lighting concept is the brainchild of Jinhong Lin. All it is, is a set of egg shaped bulbs covered in a layer of brittle high plastic. You peel off the plastic as you would an eggshell to finish the product. I am guessing that no two lights will end up the same way, [...]

The green building movement has come a long way in the last few years, with features such as solar panels, green roofs, and wind turbines being integrated into residential and commercial building designs. But Daekwon Park apparently thinks it’s time to crank up the style, put some more pizzazz in these designs, and his entry [...]

There’s no doubt why this design concept for a garish USB hub is called “Asterisko,” is there? The asterisk-shaped peripheral keeps that spaghetti-bowl of wires separated while making itself useful, offering a male USB plug along with its four females. We should all be so lucky.
Plug it into your PC and get four extra USB [...]

Falling somewhere before the BT8010 and BT8040, the BT3030 most definitely takes the crown for clever design. Jabra’s latest Bluetooth headset, as you can glean from the image above, was crafted to mimic the traditional dog tag, and specifications wise, you’ll find Bluetooth 2.0+EDR, HSP, HFP, A2DP and AVRCP support. Additionally, you’ll find six buttons [...]

This multimedia watch can play video and music files, and it comes with a Bluetooth headset with an operation range of up to 10 meters (33 feet).

Here is yet another example showing that the manufactures of USB gadgets seem to have gone from weird USB drives to weird USB hubs nowadays.

Features:

8 Digits Calculator
Built-in 4 ports USB Hubs (support 1.1 version only)
Four fundamental operations of arithmetic
Operation of Percentage
Operation of Square Root
Operation of Power & Count backwards
Memory Calculation
Auto Power-Off after approximately 8 [...]

China’s office of weather modification is gearing up to keep the sky clear during the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. How will they do it? With planes, rockets and artillery.The weather will be closely monitored with aerial surveillance and radar, and the reconnaissance will all be processed by an IBM p575 supercomputer. The computer will [...]

If you’re going to spring for a fancy watch, you might as well really, really go all out. For those with a good amount of cash burning a hole in the pockets of their fancy pants, allow me to present to you the Limited Edition Titanium Horological Machine No. 1.With an extremely limited run of [...]

If you’re looking to show off your amazing brain power to anyone who comes into your apartment, you should follow the lead of designer Alexander Lervik. He went and made his brain into a lamp.Yep, the MYBrain lamp is a replica of his brain that was designed using an MR scan of it from the [...]

The cone shape has always been a natural one for sound enhancement and projection. From the early days of circus hosts announcing some daring feat of high-wire acrobatics, to riot police announcing their intention to crack your skull open for having an opinion… good times. The cone is probably the first and best idea in [...]

To celebrate (or mock) the opening of the newest New York City museum, called appropriately enough, “New Museum”, designer Sherwood Forlee brings you this scaled down version in lamp form dubbed “New Lamp.” Disappointed by the lack of light being emitted by this new structure, Sherwood took Mihoko Ouchi’s original building design and added an [...]

There is a room in my apartment that is fast becoming a computer graveyard as I find it very difficult to part with my old technology.  These days I have been considering finding some uses for my old bits and pieces, but I am not very artistically inclined.  I will likely never progress beyond the [...]

Watchmakers Maurice Lacroix unveiled three new watches in its Starside series, and each one is almost as nice as just staring up into the stars themselves. The analog watches are all designed around a celestial motif, cleverly displaying . They are also housed in 38 millimeter stainless steel cases, covered in dozens of diamonds and, [...]

The Chinese company Rodintech is aiming for the sports fans by releasing its MPC-095, a webcam shaped like a guy holding a ball. You can choose between a football (both American and European), a basketball, and a baseball.

The web camera features a 1.3 megapixel video sensor, a 300K pixel camera resolution, a built-in mic, and [...]