Chicken coops tend not to bring thoughts of high design and innovation. The introduction of the Eglu in 2004 by British company Omlet changed the way urbanites think about raising hens. With economi...
It's official. We're in love. Please welcome our soul mate, the Fractured Fairy Tale. Made by designer Thomas Wold, the piece is a wall unit made for his client in order to house their A/V equipment...
Did you know that your current mattress may have polyurethane and formaldehyde in it. Not only are those harmful materials for the environment, they aren't the best chemicals to be sleeping on. Unless...
We hope you're prepared with an emergency kit or two around the house. Better safe than sorry (and living in California, you'd be foolish not to be prepared for earthquakes). But while we've got our e...
We have a love/hate relationship with Spring cleaning. It's definitely nice to purge your home of unnecessary clutter (trust us, you're never going to use that CRT monitor again). But the drawback of ...
Ever want to do your own home energy audit? Energy costs are moving on up like The Jeffersons, so it might be a good idea to investigate what's sucking up all the juice around the home. The Kill A W...
Because of the way homes are designed, we often need lighting during the day. This seems completely crazy when the sun is ours for the using. It seems more like we as humans should be in the busines...
When you think about essential kitchen appliances you think fridge, stove, microwave, dishwasher, espresso machine. Well the last one is for me at least. What about trash compactors? This isn't some...
We like to pay homage to Earth Day as much as we can (stretching it on to the next day and beyond) and so we give the stage to the inventor of the Segway, Dean Kamen. He has come up with a device tha...
When it comes to architecture, you rarely hear of people obsessing over the font or design of a home's address number. Is it because the options in this category are limited? Or is it such an overlook...
Asus has the bamboo laptop and now Fujitsu has the cedar laptop. While they look very similar I actually like the Fujitsu concept better. Why?...
Automatic sprinkler systems can be super convenient, but they can also be a waste of resources if they turn on right before, after, or during a rainstorm. Time to upgrade!This weekend the New York Tim...
This is a green idea everyone should try. We always keep pretty bottles with the hope that they could someday become lamps or glasses or some such but we never knew how that would actually be done. ...
The best way to avoid drawing unnecessary current is to unplug all your unused chargers or electronics. While this is what we should do, many people complain that the plug in question is hidden behind...
Extremely bright and extremely efficient are the two main benefits of an Argon filled light bulb. While a regular incandescent bulb produces 15 Lumens per watt, this Argon filled plasma light bulb pro...
Sounding like something between a Japanese manga trading card game and a mixed martial arts fighting league, these new Toshiba Neoball-z Real Pride lightbulbs are level 12 grapplers. These are 12,000...
Bring an electronics aesthetic into your home's decor. We recently stumbled across Etsy seller Debby Arem Designs, who recycles old circuit boards into works of art. We've found a few designs perfec...
The Lightway is a new concept from an Australian Industrial Design student named Damien Savio. It converts the suns rays during the day into light at night....
Here is a switch that is similar to the glowing socket we saw yesterday. Instead of simply glowing however, this one sparkles with your energy usage. ...
Glowing, energy monitoring devices we have seen before with the orb being one of the more familiar ones. But while the orb indicates the current load on the grid, the glowing socket concept changes b...
Yesterday we reported about the US Postal Services new "Mail Back" service, which allows people to rid themselves of small electronics. This is great for non-working items you know you can't sell or g...
We just posted this on Apartment Therapy LA, but for those of you who aren't regular readers of our city sites, but are residents in Los Angeles, San Diego, Washington, D.C. or Chicago, we'd like to p...
We have seen solar panels that look like leaves, integrated into roof tiles and even disguised as window shutters, but this is the first paint on solution we have come across. ...
We check in regularly with the Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics. Usually it's Apple getting criticized for their less than stellar performance, but we were surprised to see th...
We like the concept behind this. Small space apartment dwellers would appreciate the utility of having a washing machine option in their bathroom (we know we would). But then again, the toilet in the ...
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