| Tuesday, March 25, 2008 |
| The Greener Gadget |
 The recently held "Greener Gadget" competition turned out to be more of a joke than anything if you ask me.
"Greener Gadgets has partnered with Core77 to seek out design innovations for greener electronics. This design competition will engage established design firms, emerging designers, and design students to come up with new and innovative solutions to address the issues of energy, carbon footprint, health and toxicity, new materials, product lifecycle, and social development."
And when you see a toilet/washing machine combo in the competition line-up, you know things have run a muck. "Wasup" is a conceptual design integrating washing machine with toilette-flush. It suggests a sustainable water consuption by storing the wasted water in toilette-flush tank and reuse it with flushing.
I'm sorry. It might be a fantastic idea but it totally grosses me out.
Another lot of time was focused on recycling cell phones. Which I felt was something we all already knew and were participating in...plus it has nothing to do with building a greener gadget. I hope in years to come this competition is taken a little bit more seriously.
To see all the winners and entries, click here.Labels: gadget, Green |
posted by Christy @ 7:23 AM 
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