Dragonfly vertical farm is a concept urban farm specially designed for the Roosevelt Island of New York City which will reduce the problems associated with food shortage, mileage and connection between the producers and consumers. Because of the densely packed city civilization, this farm has been designed vertically, spanning 132 floors and 28 different agricultural fields for accommodating dragonflies aiming to produce fruit, grains, vegetables, meat and dairy. This Dragonfly wing shaped superstructure features wind and solar power producing capability and includes housing, offices, research labs and communal areas separated from farms, orchards and production rooms. Throughout the glass and steel set of wings, animal and plant farming is arranged as well as soil nutrient levels are maintained properly.
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City Center, a green development project coming up in Las Vegas, is the largest privately financed development in North America. It’s an $8 billion venture between MGM MIRAGE and Dubai World, the first building is scheduled to be opened at the end of 2009. On completion of the entire City Center project, it includes a resort casino, two non-gaming resort hotels, and almost 500,000 square foot retail and entertainment space and also will feature a $40 million public fine art program.
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This futuristic kitchen is designed by Aslihan Yilmaz and Kitchen Mood has become the X-08 National Design Competition Kitchen 10th Finalist, TURKEY 2008. Kitchen mood is perfect for urban lifestyle which demands more and more space in such limited area. The aim of this kitchen design is to liberalize the metropolitan user and create a new “kitchen mood”. This kitchen is foldable, all of the components can be fold when it is not used, 4 sided with 360 degree rotatable.
Kitchen mood has 5 main are with its own functions : washing, heating/cooking, cold (fridge), eating(table), and storage. It has everything you need, including a waste bin. Futuristic kitchen mood is definitely an answer for small space environment.
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I really hate to know that my food already expired without even have the chance to consume it. That is why I’m going to be very happy if this BestBefore gadget can be mass produced, I’ll definitely buy it. RFID tag is predicted to be used widely in the next 5 years, BestBefore gadget is designed to take advantage of RFID tag. This gadget will read RFID tags in your storage units, and keep a constant stock of your foodstuffs.
BestBefore gadget will alert the user to food which is going out of date and even suggest recipes to use food which may otherwise go to waste. It will create a suggested shopping list, and keep it updated by scanning tags entering the basket. The shape is designed to hook onto to the toddler chair of the trolley to allow easy viewing. This hook will also incorporate a magnet to allow BestBefore to be attached to the fridge.
This isn’t just a nice to have gadget, some people will find it very useful to track their stock of food, and save some money rather than throwing expired food into garbage.
Designer : Peter Legg
Pet Waste Disposal System by Joe Dougherty. The system was designed to be a self-sustaining product that utilizes rain water for cleaning (and septic system), along with solar energy for charging.
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