Gardens are springing up all over the plac -rooftop gardens in New York City and large urban gardens in \cities such as Chicago and Portland. Growing your own fresh veggies has become a national pastime. Now baseball has jumped into the act. The San Francisco Giants now have a 4,320 square-foot vegetable garden behind the outfield wall in center field in AT&T Park, their professional baseball stadium. This is a first for baseball. The space where The Garden is located…

Competition runners up or honorable mentions might just have brilliant ideas that could change the world. This past May,engineering students from the University of California Riverside received an honorable mention award for phase two of an Environmental Protection Agency student design competition for their creation of a roof tile paint that eats smog emissions equivalent to that of a car driven 11,000 miles per year. Tiles with and without the smog-eating paint This roof coating is a paint made from…

Plastic waste has become a HUGE global problem, particularly in our oceans. It’s become a scourge for marine and wildlife. Once useful fishnets are now being discarded and amount to 10% of the oceans’ plastic waste. Bureo Skateboards is trying to change this. Based in Chile, this skate company recycles discarded fishnets into stylish plastic skateboards. Started by “three crazy gringos”, they’ve created The Minnow. This product utilizes very little plastic (by weight) but has a real value to it….

We all know what smoke alarms look like – those round ugly devices that we stick up high on a wall or ceiling. Now Finnish designer Paola Suhonen has added some whimsy to this lifesaving tool. Lento from Jalo Helsinki, is a photovoltaic smoke detector that resembles an attractive insect or art deco and features cutting-edge technology. Its entire surface acts as as a test button, so there are no push buttons. Also the external casing acts as a “press…

Having recently judged a competition where young people are tasked with being innovative entrepreneurs, it’s clear that many of the today’s youth have creativity and passion spilling out all over the place. Such is the case of three design students at University of London who, as part of their graduate art project, creative colorfully stylish sneakers from garbage. https://vimeo.com/92132180 These multi-colored sneakers, pointedly called “Everything You Buy is Rubbish” -are made of plastic debris collected after the three students scoured…

Winter is still very present in many parts of the world, though there are signs that spring is coming. But a good woodstove is still an important device for heating and improvements are always welcome. Bodart & Gonay, a Belgian fireplace manufacturer, has come up with a great improvement on its Infire 680 woodstove insert. Its innovative boiler technology recovers convection heat and uses it for hot water. Combined together, this new innovative system not only heats your home, it…

Night lights don’t seem to put out too much light when you test them out during the day, but those little bulbs can seem like a miniature sun when you’re trying to get some shut-eye in a dark room. Two choices – Wake others up by shattering the dark with that bright light or fumble around in the dark. Oh wait. Now there’s a third choice.

The not-so-humble selfie has been elevated to an art form, becoming a standard part of social media. Unfortunately, most selfies give a too-close view up the subject’s nose because the phone is so close to your face. Now, you can add a little distance to your selfie.

We’re definitely in the throws of winter – heavy snowstorms and flooding in many parts of the world. This time of year having fresh produce can be problematic. But Londoners have a new alternative. Growing Underground farm is a new 2.5-acre farm located one hundred feet below the streets of London. Located under the Northern Line near Clapham North tube station on property leased from the London Underground. Zero Carbon Food owners Richard Ballard and Steven Dring have partnered with…

Flashdrives are a great way to keep important digital files with you as you travel from one computer to another, but what happens if you don’t keep the flashdrive with you? You don’t have to worry about that if it’s part of your wardrobe.

Shhhh! We’re going to let you in on a dirty little secret. You know that gym membership you recently purchased to get in shape? The gym is counting on you failing. Why give your cash to somebody like that when you could be saving money every week while getting the sexy body you desire.