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Wednesday, September 8, 2010

10 Craziest Green Ideas...GOGREEN!!!!!!!!



http://www.oddee.com/_media/imgs/oddee/top1.gifHotel offers free meal to guests who are willing to generate electricity 
The Crown Plaza Hotel in Copenhagen, Denmark, is offering a free meal to any guest who is able to produce electricity for the hotel on an exercise bike attached to a generator. Guests will have to produce at least 10 watt hours of electricity - roughly 15 minutes of cycling for someone of average fitness. They will then be given meal vouchers worth $36 (26 euros). 


http://www.oddee.com/_media/imgs/oddee/top2.gifDisco pub gets electricity produced by people dancing at specially modified dance floor 
All the flashing strobes and pounding speakers at the dance club are massive consumers of electrical power. So Bar Surya, in London, re-outfitted its floor with springs that, when compressed by dancers, could produce electrical current that would be stored in batteries and used to offset some of the club's electrical burden. The club's owner, Andrew Charalambous, said the dance floor can now power 60 percent of the club's energy needs. 


http://www.oddee.com/_media/imgs/oddee/top4.gifCompany creates a desktop printer that doesn't use ink nor paper
Who says printers only use paper to print documents? It's time for you to meet the PrePeat Printer then. Different from conventional printers, PrePeat adopts a thermal head to print on specially-made plastic sheets. These plastic sheets are not merely water-proof, but could be easily erased, just feed the sheets through the printer again, and a different temperature will erase everything or just write over it. Also claimed by the manufacturer, such one sheet could be used up to 1,000 times so that you'll reduce your expenses on paper for sure.


http://www.oddee.com/_media/imgs/oddee/top5.gifUniversity constructs a green roof as a gathering place

Green design is an enormously popular trend in modern architecture, just take a look at this amazing green roof at the School of Art, Design and Media at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. This 5-story facility sweeps a wooded corner of the campus with an organic, vegetated form that blends landscape and structure, nature and high-tech and symbolizes the creativity it houses. The roofs serve as informal gathering spaces challenging linear ideas and stirring perception. The roofs create open space, insulate the building, cool the surrounding air and harvest rainwater for landscaping irrigation. Planted grasses mix with native greenery to colonize the building and bond it to the setting. 

http://www.oddee.com/_media/imgs/oddee/top6.gifDesigner creates a sink that uses wasted water to grow a plant
 
Made of polished stained concrete, the Zen Garden Sink has a channel that allows the water used while washing your hands to water a plant. Created by young Montreal designer Jean-Michel Gauvreau the sink comes in single or double basin model. The sink is designed in a way you won't get your plants all soapy. There is a main drain at the bottom of the basin for soapy grime. Your little plant friend just gets whatever you choose to dole out.


http://www.oddee.com/_media/imgs/oddee/top7.gifDesigner creates a shower that forces you to leave when you've wasted too much water
 
20% of our total domestic energy usage is from hot water for showering and bathing. That's over 6 times the energy usage of domestic lighting. So designer Tommaso Colia came up with his eco-friendly shower design that will force you to get out when you take too long and waste much water. The eco_drop shower features beautiful concentric circles that will rise to force you to stop showering when you take too long, and accordingly save water.


http://www.oddee.com/_media/imgs/oddee/top8.gifDesigner creates light-switch that changes colors to teach children how to save energy
 
Teaching the importance of energy conservation is the goal of this design from Tim Holley. He calls it Tio, and it's a ghost-shaped light switch that gives kids a visual reminder of how much energy they've used by leaving lights on. Tio starts out green and smiling. If the light is left on for more than four hours, he turns yellow and looks shocked. And if you dare to leave that light on for more than eight hours, sweet little Tio turns into a raging red hulk, complete with frowny mouth and angry eyes. But he won't just visually remind your kids about their energy habits; information from the light switch is sent to Tio's computer program so the entire family can see how they're doing. In a brilliant piece of visual positive reinforcement, Holley's program lets kids grow a “virtual tree” which gets bigger and healthier the more energy they save.


http://www.oddee.com/_media/imgs/oddee/top9.gifEnvironmental company creates a staple-free stapler to avoid staple pollution 
Staples are supposed to be so bad to the environment that a company decided to create a staple-free stapler. This product promises to make collation eco-friendly. Instead of using those thin metal planet-killers, the staple-free stapler "cuts out tiny strips of paper and uses the strips to stitch up to five pieces of paper together." You can even order them customized with your corporate logo so you can, you know, brag about what your company is doing to stop the staple epidemic.


http://www.oddee.com/_media/imgs/oddee/top10.gifDesigner creates an iPhone charger powered by a hand grip 
A green idea that gives you a great hand workout as well. Charge your iPhone by a hand grip! This concept is called You can work it out, designed by Mac Funamizu

Friday, September 3, 2010

New York Ice Festival

The most fascinating pics of New York Ice Festival





 











 

Vodka - the magic elixir

 Who  knew?!!!!


          1. To remove a bandage without pain
                             

               saturate the bandage with vodka.
               The stuff disolves adhesive.

         2. To clean the caulking around bathtubs and
            showers,   fill a trigger-spray bottle with vodka, spray the caulking,  let set five minutes and wash clean.
                           

              The alcohol in the vodka kills mold and mildew.

         3. To clean your eyeglasses,    
                       
           
              simply wipe the  lenses with a soft,
              clean cloth dampened with vodka.
              The alcohol in the  vodka cleans the glass and kills germs.

          4. Prolong the life of razors by filling a cup with vodka
              and letting your safety razor blade
              soak in the alcohol after shaving.
                             
 
              The vodka disinfects the blade and prevents rusting.

          5. Spray vodka on wine stains,
                         
 
              scrub with a brush, and then blot dry.

          6. Using a cotton ball, apply vodka to your face
                           

              as an astringent to cleanse the skin and tighten pores.

          7. Add a jigger of vodka to a 12-ounce bottle of shampoo.
                           

              The alcohol cleanses the scalp,removes toxins from hair,
              and stimulates the growth of healthy hair..

          8. Fill a sixteen-ounce trigger-spray bottle with vodka
               
 
              and spray bees or wasps to kill them.

          9. Pour one-half cup vodka
              and one-half cup water into a Ziploc freezer bag
                           
 
              and freeze for a slushy, refreshing ice pack for aches,
              pain or black eyes.

        10.. Fill a clean, used mayonnaise jar
              with freshly packed lavender flowers,
                           
 
              fill the jar with vodka, seal the lid tightly
              and set in the sun for three days.
              Strain liquid through a coffee filter,
              then apply the tincture to aches and pains.

       11. To relieve a fever, use a washcloth
                         
 
              to rub vodka on your chest and back as a liniment.

       12. To cure foot odor,

                         
 
              wash your feet with vodka.

       13. Vodka will disinfect
               

             and alleviate a jellyfish sting.

       14. Pour vodka over an area affected with poison ivy
                         

              to remove the urushiol oil from your skin.

       15. Swish a shot of vodka over an aching tooth.
                       
 
              Allow your gums to absorb some of the alcohol to numb the pain.

             

Saturday, August 21, 2010

Height of Jealousy ..poor chick

What is Globalization?( Funny Answer---------must read)

hat is Globalization?
Scroll down to know it better!!



HERE'S A LESSON FOR YOU, BET YOU NEVER KNEW THIS!

 


A definition of globalization that I can understand and to which I now can relate:
Question:
What is the truest definition
 of Globalization?
Answer:
Princess Diana's death.

Question
:

How come?

Answer
:
An English princess
with an
Egyptian boyfriend

crashes
in a French tunnel,
riding in a
 German car with a
Dutch engine,

driven by a Belgian

who was drunk on

Scottish whisky,

(check the bottle before you
change the spelling),

followed closely by

Italian Paparazzi,

on
Japanese motorcycles,

treated
by an American doctor,
using

Brazilian medicines.
This is sent to you by an Indian,
using

American Bill Gates' technology,

and
you're probably reading
this on your computer,

that
uses Taiwanese chips,
and

a
Korean monitor,
assembled by

Bangladeshi
workers

in a
Singapore plant,

transported
by Indian

truck drivers,

hijacked
by Indonesians,

unloaded by
Sicilian longshoremen,

and
trucked to you by Mexican illegals...... .
Friends, this is
Globalization !

MIND GAME

 Are u in 2% or 98%











Can you figure it out? 







Are you the 2% or 98% of the population? 



Follow the instructions!  NO PEEKING AHEAD!
•       Do the following exercise, guaranteed to raise an eyebrow.
•       There's no trick or surprise.
•       Just follow these instructions, and answer
the questions one! at a time and as quickly as you can!


•       Again, as quickly as you can but don't advance until   you've done each of them ... really.
•       Now, scroll down (but not too fast, you might miss
something.)










       Think of a number from 1 to 10



























       Multiply that number by 9





























       If the number is a 2-digit number, add the digits together

























       Now subtract 5




























Determine which letter in the alphabet corresponds to  the number you ended up with
       (example: 1=a, 2=b, 3=c,etc.)


























       Think of a country that starts with that letter.























       Remember the last letter of the name of that country.






























       Think of the name of an animal that starts with that letter.





























       Remember the last letter in the name of that animal.





























       Think of the name of a fruit that starts with that letter.





























       Are you thinking of a Kangaroo in Denmark eating an Orange?

I told you this was FREAKY!! 
If not, you're among the 2% of the population whose minds are different enough to think of something else. 98% of people will answer with kangaroos in Denmark when given this exercise. 


     











WORDS CAN CREATE PICTURES......

Peace ------   War
 


Threat ------   Pretext




Tirany(It must be tyranny, but its acceptable) ------ Freedom
 


Dead ----- Alive