Waterpebble is a unique tiny gadget that monitors the amount of water you consume during a shower and helps you save water. The tiny pebble shaped gizmo placed below your shower checks the water outflow via the plughole. Using your first shower as a benchmark, the waterpebble alerts you using different lights ranking your water usage. So once you have set the benchmark with your first shower, you can use the indicator lights by waterpebble to alert your self and reduce your water wastage. Video demo below
I have just returned after a good 18 hour coverage of the IIT Techfest 2010 Day 1 and the last event I attended was the screening of this Documentary / Movie – The Age of Stupid. While in another 6 5 hours I am supposed to be running around the IIT B campus again going wild over the live coverage challenge that the OG Team has taken up, there is something I couldn’t held back within myself – and that’s the desire to make a difference!
Do you often forget to water your plants? Well, no worries. Thanks to a concept design by Industrial designer Jacky Wu called Dew Drops. It uses a simple artificial funnel-shaped leaf that extracts water-vapor in the air and condenses it to water your plants using thermoelectric cooling.
All you need to do is, place the artificial leaf in your plant pot, power the leaf and within no time it should start watering your plant.
The concept and the design sure looks exciting, but I fail to get the benefit behind using the product : (more…)
We aren’t big fans of reports and surveys, but this one is an eyeopener. After all the go green buzz that we hear about, according to a report by ABI research only 2% of unused cellphones are actually recycled.
Some more facts of the research:
currently only 6% of used mobiles are refurbished
only 8% mobiles are disposed properly
in 5 years 18% of mobile would be either refurbished or recycled
In US alone leaving PCs on overnight costs $2.8 billion to companies in energy bill. On a CO2 basis, that’s 20 million tons of carbon dioxide, equal to that produced by 4 million cars. A good recession advice that can save billions to industries worldwide is switching off their computers and other systems during night.
For most MNC employees computer and telephone are free luxuries that results in careless usage off these resources. There is a urgent need to educate the educated about environmental issues and cost cutting.
