1.Living Lamp Provides Green Indoor Gardening Space
by Bridgette Meinhold
Rooftop and balcony gardening has seen a great resurgence as of late, but many apartment dwellers lack balconies, rooftop access, or garden space and are unable to indulge in these green trends. Apartment gardeners, take heed! The Green Indoors is a high-tech gardening solution that provides ample light and water to growing plants while making the most of available space by housing plants vertically. Up to 24 specialized plant pots can be connected to the stand to grow any number of vegetables, herbs, or flowers all year long.
Still in its concept stage, the Green Indoors plant stand was designed by Ingela Viks + Liina-Kai Raivet from Estonia as part of the Designboom/BÜSSEL design competition. The ‘Your Way to Coway’ competition asked designers to imagine the kitchen of tomorrow, and come up with concepts for appliances, multi-use spaces, and gadgets that might be included in future kitchens. We can really picture the Green Indoors as a befitting garden for any city dweller’s apartment - it could provide fresh food all year-round, and would offer the added bonus of bestowing some much needed light on those suffering from Seasonal Affective Disorderduring the winter.
We’ve seen other indoor growing lightpots, but they tend to take up precious counter space. The Green Indoors plant stand consists of a flat metal base fitted with a light filled tube with a matte cover to minimize glare. The stand not only provides necessary light, but also automatically waters each plant individually according to its needs. When there is enough natural light, the plant stand shuts off its light, and it also turns off automatically at night. While the Green Indoors is only a concept to date, we hope it blossoms into reality someday soon.
http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/06/22/high-tech-indoor-plant-stand/
This re-covered iPod is almost like hugging a tree, except it fits in the palm of your hand. So perhaps it’s more like giving a tree a handshake and hearing your favorite tunes at the same time. Josh D, from Australia, took his Apple iPod Mini apart and built a brand new case from red cedar to update the otherwise outdated gadget into a stylish, natural, and woodsy example of heirloom design.
Rather than just recycling his old trusty iPod Mini when Josh got a new one, he decided to take care of a little mini project he had been meaning to do for some time. He took apart the Mini, removed the original cover and designed a new hardwood case using the original guts of the iPod. With the use of his trusty Dremel tool, he retooled a hardwood cover out of Australian Red Cedar and a clickwheel out of Camphor Laurel. Josh used brass plates for the bottom and top as well as brass screws to keep it all together.
The crafting of the clickwheel seems to be the most impressive aspect of the project. Josh shaved down the circular wooden piece to just a few millimeters thick and used double sided tape to adhere it to the iPod electronics. In his words, “the wooden clickwheel ended up being just as responsive as the original plastic clickwheel. I ended up shaving the clickwheel to only a couple millimetres thick, and the ipod’s sensor picks up the signal no worries.” There’s even wooden accessories to go along with it - Josh re-coverd the iTrip module in Light Red Cedar as well as the iPod mini dock in Camphor Laurel.
The result is a beautifully finished piece that is likely to long outlast its cheap plastic counterparts, and would go perfectly with a set of slick wood speakers. We hope John will continue to update the casing with the latest guts, and compost it once it has lived through its useful lifecycle.
http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/06/22/wood-ipod-puts-nature-in-the-palm-of-your-hand/
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