Trivets are important. Not as important as, say, a workable plan for Palestinian statehood, but can lasting peace in the Middle East prevent our nice wooden table from scorch marks? Swedish home accessory masters Hetta offer two bendable cork pot…
Continue Reading →Just because your new Mac Airbook is small enough to fit in a manilla envelope doesn't mean you should be toting it around protected only by a flimsy layer of paper. There are more practical ways to transport your new…
Continue Reading →Of the top three places architects look for inspiration, we'd say nature would be number one (two and three are always "art" and "the dumpster behind Frank Gehry's house"). For Orquideorama in Medellin, Colombia (yes, the same place where Pablo…
Continue Reading →Reuse, Reduce, Recycle. We employ those practices with everything from paper to aluminum cans, so why not furniture? The folks at Metrosofa do just that. Now, they don't necessarily find that ratty couch that you put on the street that's…
Continue Reading →Several days ago at the TED conference we told you about Kluster's mission to create a product in seventy-two hours with the assistance of one thousand of the brightest people in the world. Well, the results are in, the votes…
Continue Reading →A while back we told you about the eco-friendly bedding designers at Amenity, who turn bedrooms into green rooms by making bedding from only organic and sustainable materials like hemp and organic cotton. Formed by longtime friends Kristina de Corpo…
Continue Reading →When Energizer came out with the Energi To Go -- the battery operated chargers that can perk up your cell or iPod "on the go" -- mobile tech geeks found it a fair solution to their energy crisis. But, the…
Continue Reading →Unless you're from Alaska, brilliant light shows probably aren't a nightly occurrence in your backyard. British company Firewinder has remedied this, by taking a typical outdoor mobile and putting tiny LEDs all over it. The result: a trippy, spiraling strobe…
Continue Reading →Back in May, we told you about the stellar work being done by Collective Four for Dwell's Building Green In Harlem project. Well those purveyors of design perfection from the Pratt Institute are at it again. Their latest piece utilizes…
Continue Reading →It was a little over a month ago when we told you about Core 77's Greener Gadgets competition"¦so if you had a design for a Green Gadget and you snoozed until now, well, you inevitably "losed." The design competition submission…
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