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Toyota Creates Flowers To Absorb Prius Manufacturing Emissions
4:53AM Adam Frucci | What do you do when the “eco-friendly” car you’re manufacturing is actually horrible for the environment to manufacture? Re-engineer nature, obviously! More »
Design
What Is This?
4:20AM Jesus Diaz | Jellyfishes attacking an undersea monster? That would be cool, but the reality is much simpler, and more beautiful: It’s a helianthus annuus. More »
Gadgets
Oversized Solar-Powered LED Flowers Make For An Ostentatious Lawn
9:20AM Jason Chen | Converting things that are out in the sun to run off solar power makes a lot of sense, like lawn ornaments, these flowers or air conditioning units. Zambonis? Less so. [OGE Gallery via Mocoloco via BBG] More »
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Provector ‘Flower’ Is the Pesky Mosquito’s Deadly Siren Song
1:00AM Jack Loftus | With warmer weather comes mosquitoes. Mosquitoes suck, no pun intended. In underdeveloped countries mosquitoes also kill by carrying malaria. This is why I love the Provector “flower.” Everything about it is designed to kill. More »
Design
Class Up Your Toilet-Room With Some Pretty Flowers In Your Faucet
9:45AM Dan Nosowitz | Note: This faucet-vase combination will not excuse the rest of your grungy tenement. [Craziest Gadgets] More »
Peripherals
Tulip USB Hub Is Nothing But Flowers and Sunshine (and USB Ports)
12:00AM Mark Wilson | You big tough IT guy you. Just because you can rip the still-beating RAM from a PC doesn’t mean that you can’t enjoy the simple beauties of life, like USB ports shaped like tulips. More »
Peripherals
Rose USB Drive Inspires Romanticism in the Digital Age
5:40AM Mark Wilson | A flower was offered to me, Such a flower as May never bore; But I said ‘I’ve a pretty rose tree,’ And I passed the sweet flower o’er. – William Blake
Design
Wireless Router Flower Vase Concept Also Doubles As Nuclear Cooling Tower
3:40AM John Mahoney | Generally, water and gadgets don’t tend to play nicely together. But I’m a fan of this wireless router/flower vase concept design from Saudi telecom company STC. With it, the router doesn’t have to be shoved away in the corner, its tangle of wires collecting dust bunnies by the pound. Now, how aboud a daffodil–or a cottonball puff simulating the smoke rising out of a sector 7G’s cooling tower. [Dezeen] More »
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Kitchen Oil Fires Have Pretty, Weird Solution: Flower Fire Exinguishers
9:33PM Kit Eaton | Fire extinguishers are damn handy, but hard to get excited about—unless they’re cool flying ones—but these flower extinguishers from Japan should be weird enough to pique your interest. They’re magnetic, so you just whack them on a convenient surface, like the front of your fridge. And if you’re unlucky enough to get an oil fire on your cooking range, then you simply grab the flowers and fling them into the fire. You’re probably thinking “Fighting fire with flowers? WTF?” right now. The flowers work by melting to create a film over the surface of the burning oil, cutting off its air supply and extinguishing the fire. See the video of them in action if you don’t believe it. More »
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