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Vehicles
Husqvarna Panthera Leo Mower Is Electric-Powered, LCD-Equipped
4:30PM Adrian Covert | Growing up, I hated mowing the lawn. My backyard was huge, my allergies were bad and I was stuck with a temperamental push mower. If I had this battery-powered Husqvarna mower, however, I would have begged to do yard work. More »
Peripherals
Grass Charging Valet Hides Unsightly Cables In Unsightly Fake Grass
10:50PM John Herrman | A desktop grass garden is tragic. A desktop artificial grass garden is tragic and pointless. A desktop artificial grass garden that charges phones is the last thing you buy before an office shooting rampage. [RedFerret] More »
Design
Tokyo Skyline Contrasts Against Grass Lawns in The Green Island Project
5:00PM Elaine Chow | The Green Island Project asks the question “what would Tokyo look like if all its pavement were grass instead?” and answers it with an amazing series of pictures. galleryPost('greenislandjapan', 3, ''); More »
Design
Muwi Concept Lawnmower Turns Waste Grass into Playthings
8:18PM Kit Eaton | The electric-sheep lawnmower may have tickled your fancy, but this Muwi concept mower from designer Yuli Sung will have you scratching your head. The concept’s roughly the same as the sheep: It automatically assesses the grassy areas, and then cuts the lawn without supervision required. Cunningly, it grabs the grass cuttings inside where they won’t lie around setting off people’s hay fever. But then it does something strange… it compacts the cuttings into toys. Scratching yet? The second image makes it clearer. More »
Robots
Does Pittsburgh Dream of Electric Sheep? No: It’s Got One Already
7:28PM Kit Eaton | A six-legged robotic sheep, with grass-mowing teeth and GPS navigation: gotta be inspired by Philip K. Dick, right? Yes, it is: Mower was created by Osman Khan, a visiting professor at Carnegie Mellon’s School of Art, and is on display as part of the Bigbots exhibit at the Robot 250 festival. Mower roams around using GPS to place itself on grassy areas, has collision avoidance sensors and makes the most amusing array of sounds as it clatters about. Clearly intended to be a humorous reference to robotic lawnmowers and the “green” method of using real sheep to do it, he’s on display at Phipps Conservatory & Botanical Gardens. Robot 250 runs until July 28th. [Robot250 via BotJunkie] More »
Cameras
Grass Photography Grows Your Snapshots
2:30AM Mark Wilson | Photosynthetic photography is by no means a new technique, but it’s certainly new to us. By placing a “canvas” of grass in a darkroom and shining light on it that first passes through a film negative, artist/scientists have been able to tweak the chlorophyll levels of blades of grass and create living photographs. Their permanence is fleeting, but the effect is quite remarkable. This piece is Mother and Child, hit the jump for Sunbathers. More »
Peripherals
Sensory Lamp Concept Brings Garden to Mousemat
1:31AM Gizmodo US Edition | If you couldn’t escape to experience the Great Outdoors because you were stuck in an office cubicle, or happened to be living through a rain-lashed Summer, then this ambient light mousemat complete with mini-lawn might be a tiny desktop alternative. Sara Rossbach’s concept has a patch of grass curling around your mouse, and lights the pad with a cycle of cheery colours. The good: nurturing the grass might distract you from day-to-day office grind. The bad: no automatic water sprinkles. The worse: more bugs for your computer. [SaraRossbach.com via Elit Alice] More »
