Calling all designers, inventors, and green gadget geeks! The 2009 Greener Gadgets Conference is shaping up to be an incredible event, and we’re excited to announce the details of next year’s Greener Gadgets Design Competition! Hosted by Core77 and Inhabitat, the Greener Gadgets Design Competition will award $5000 of cash prizes to extraordinary designs for green gadgets that offer innovative solutions to the issues of energy, materials, product lifecycle, recycling, and social development. Designers are encouraged to consider their design’s product ecosystem, and may focus upon a particular context, material, device, or area of human enterprise. Want to enter?...
In association with CEA, Core77 is proud to announce the launch of this year's Greener Gadgets Design Competition 2009, challenging designers to create the next generation of greener gadgets. Once again, finalists will be JUDGED LIVE at the Greener Gadgets Conference, this year slated for February 27th in New York City. Prize money is $3000 for 1st Place, $1000 each for 2nd and 3rd Places. We were thrilled with the response from last year's competition, and in addition to the prize money, winners, finalists, and several notables received an incredible amount of press from magazines and websites around the...
Stark, hi-tech, and decidedly not-quite-Western-looking, above are some of the results of an industrial design competition sponsored by Nord, a Ukrainian domestic appliances manufacturer. The competition drew nearly 100 entrants from the Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Moldova and Uzbekistan; you can see more of the designs here. via design in central and eastern europe(more...)...
ECONA, not to be confused with the Econo or the ECO Showerdrop, is a water-saving device that could change the way you view (literally!) your water consumption at home. This gadget won the Concurso Nuevo Diseño 2008 (New Design Competition) in the ecodesign category. The logo for the Competition, which also has interior design, furniture, and urban environment categories can ......
ECONA, not to be confused with the Econo or the ECO Showerdrop, is a water-saving device that could change the way you view (literally!) your water consumption at home. This gadget won the Concurso Nuevo Diseño 2008 (New Design Competition) in the ecodesign category. The logo for the Competition, which also has interior design, furniture, and urban environment categories can ......
Designed by Clara Descals (Valencia) and Emma Laurin (Sweden), the touch panel receives, stores and manages information about household water consumption. It then displays the info about the house, via the water-droplet shaped units, that warn you if you are using too much of that clear gold and how much you should be using. Winer of the Concurso Nuevo Diseño 2008, which is a new design competition in Spain. Learn how it works after a click. -Hang- @ haha.nu....
If you're heading to Miami for the 2008 hoo-hah, make sure to check out BOX TOP SHOP, presented by I.D. Magazine, Charles & Marie, and Areaware. They'll be selling limited-edition (natch) design objects from Areaware and Charles & Marie, as well as an edition of 300 I.D. tote bags featuring exclusive graphics by Konstantin Grcic, Tord Boontje, and the Bouroullecs. The space is designed by Rich, Brilliant, Willing (you'll recall them from our Greener Gadgets Design Competition last year), who've devised " a practical solution to create a temporary retail environment": By using flat-packed hollow volumes (cardboard boxes), a...
This is New York City’s rather poor new bike rack design. The circular rack was the winner of the CityRacks Design Competition, and was picked from 200 entrants, most of which were equally impractical. The nameless hoop was designed by Denmark-based Ian Mahaffy and Maarten De Greeve. So, what’s wrong with this rack? It looks like it would last about five minutes on the NYC streets — that tiny, single-point mounting would probably be easier to break than most locks. We have no idea what is wrong with the standard bike rack that works everywhere else — the inverted,...
Attention all eco inventors, green design visionaries, and gadget geeks! We’re excited to announce Greener Gadgets 2009! Registration is now open for the return of this provocative conference, which will take place on February 27th, 2009 in NYC. Like last year’s inaugural Greener Gadgets event, the 2009 conference will convene some of the world’s leaders in green tech to explore the sustainable side of the consumer electronics industry. This year’s event is shaping up to be better than ever, with a star-studded lineup of speakers and another exciting design competition, and Inhabitat will be posed at the center of...
Mary Lou Jepsen with XO Laptop, via Inhabitat GREENER GADGETS 2009 WHAT: The Second Annual Greener Gadgets Conference is a revolutionary event and exhibition promoting the importance of environmental stewardship in consumer technology innovation. This one day conference brings together electronics industry leaders, entrepreneurs, journalists and designers to address key green topics including sustainable design and lifestyles, product marketing, energy efficiency and more. The event also will feature the Greener Gadgets Design Competition, an awards program to recognize forward thinking and eco-conscious designers for their hard work, environmental awareness and creativity. Greener Gadgets offers an excellent platform for environmental...
I'm happy to tell you that we've just launched the Google Lunar X PRIZE store at CafePress.com. Go check it out, and maybe grab yourself a spiffy t-shirt. Or perhaps your dog needs a new wardrobe. Or the official Google Lunar X PRIZE apron, for the barbecue fanatic in your life. Whatever your nerdy heart desires, you can find it over at the Google Lunar X PRIZE store.You'll notice also a featured design by Julian Bennett, our first place winner of the Google Lunar X PRIZE T-shirt Design Competition, which we held a few months back. Unfortunately we were unable...
The CityRacks Design Competition has come to a close, with this bicycle rack design from Ian Mahaffy and Maarten De Greeve (Bettlelab) winning top prize. The competition, which saw over 200 entries from around the world, called for an innovative bike rack design to be implemented throughout NYC. Ten of the top prototypes were installed and tested at Astor Place in NYC since September 30, including some less conventional designs, like the Gaudi-esque rack by fadarchitecture seen below. CityRacks explains their decision: Mahaffy and De Greeve’s design reflects a modern simplicity that will greatly enhance the City’s streetscape. The...
The United Kingdom’s war on terrorism has met the creative front with their latest design competition “Public spaces, safer places”: designing in counter terrorism. Created in collaboration with Home Office and NaCTSO (National Counter Terrorism Security Office), the RSA and the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA); the competition is open to students in architecture and design and aims to integrate security and counter-terrorism into the process of designing places visited and used by the public. The Design Challenge: Imagine that the national government and city authority now wish to re-develop the site of (an) attack. As the first stage...
Copenhagen designers Ian Mahaffy and Maarten De Greeve have won New York's CityRacks Design Competition with their floating circle design. Almost 5,000 cast metal 'Hoop' racks are planned to be installed throughout the city over the next 3 years. Results First Place: Ian Mahaffy and Maarten De Greeve (Bettlelab) Second Place: Andrew Lang and Harry Dobbs Third Place: Ignacio Ciocchini View finalist's entries(more...)...
Image: DESIGN 21 Biodiversity isn’t the only thing that is threatened nowadays – it seems that linguistic diversity (and by extension, cultural diversity) is also deteriorating as our world becomes increasingly mono-lingual and mono-cultural. Of the estimated 7,000 languages spoken in the world today, experts say that nearly half are endangered and may disappear within a generation. Every two weeks, another language disappears, consigning equally valuable cultural perspectives and histories to s......
