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Windtulip LED Street light combines aesthetics with green energy

4LED — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 09:08:15 +0000

Today, we mostly use nuclear and fossil fuel sources to fill the energy needs. Day after day, it is becoming more serious problem we have to face along with poisonous wastes, deadly accidents and concerns about exhaust of natural resources. Future comes with both sustainability and environmental concerns. This is because there is a rising tendency to green power sources like solar and wind power plants. However, these environmentally friendly power plants also require power transmission lines to transmit the harnessed energy from plant to our homes. For this reason, products with cables will begin to give their places to self-feeding products which produce their own energy and not depend on power sockets.

Mebrure Oral, a Turkish industrial designer, has sought to address these problems by coming up with a novel concept that not only uses green energy, but also looks good. His creation, titled the Windtulip, uses a vertical axis turbine to trap wind which is then converted into electricity. The aesthetically appealing streetlight that looks like a tulip flower harnesses the wind’s power, which is transmitted to a transformer and batteries. The stored energy is then used at night to illuminate streets. LED lighting enable to work even in windless weather.

LED lights sponge lamp

4LED — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:11:32 +0000

Simply made out of a usual sponge which is provided with a LED bulb. Similar to a candle this lamp creates atmosphere lightening

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Wind Power Pinwheel LED Light

4LED — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 09:56:52 +0000

Pinwheels are iconic in the broad minds of children’s terra scapes but with a bit of tech prowess, adults can enjoy them too. The Solar light is a project aimed at bringing attention to the wonders of wind power and to the current degenerate state of unsustainable energy. Acrylic blades catch the wind and a small generator LED tube lights.

Designer: Eon Tae Yoon

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Water Powered LED Torch

admin — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:41:30 +0000

Here is an eternal LED flashlight you can consider using, the NoPoPo Eco Water-Powered Flashlight Set, a Japanese company NoPoPo came up with water-powered batteries that can even use your own pee to power them. Now, this water-powered LED flashlight is available, all powered using NoPoPo water-powered batteries, way too cool. I suggest you to get one for emergencies. This LED flashlight lasts virtually forever!

The NoPoPo Mini Lantern is pure craziness: LED lamp powered with nothing but water! Simple to use, rechargable almost anywhere, and lasting up to ten years without losing charge, the NoPoPo is a perfect addition to any emergency kit Emergency-Kits-for-Business-Traveler , camping gear, survival set, and more. The versatile mini lantern can be used as either a LED flashlight or a unidirectional LED lantern; just slide the cover up to change modes.

fading out led soft cushion

admin — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:30:21 +0000

If I ever have kids, I’ll be sure to pass on to them everything that I know about anything. Like the joys of reading, or the merits of moderation. And thanks to all of the fascinating things I’ve read about since I started writing here, if someday my kids come to me and ask, “Dad, where can I find some of the strangest shit in the world?” I can confidently say, “Brando.”

Behold the “Fading Out LED Soft Cushion”! It comes in two variants, Psychedelic Milk Cow – perfect for inducing seizures – and Little Satanist Red Bull – perfect for, well, little Satanists.

The Fading Out LED Soft Cushions are not just for kids; they’re perfect for adults too! Buy them for your adult enemies, and they’ll surely hate you more.

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Of course you can just take out the 3 AA batteries and let the cushions be normal cushions, but then that would make the thing normal. And if there’s a forbidden word at Brando’s, it’s “normal”.

You can get one of these weird LED cushions – I won’t bother asking why – at Brando for $22 (USD).

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