Hoping to steer cellphones into an era when conventional chargers will go defunct, London-based designer Patrick Hayland conceives a mobile phone that will rely on an integrated heat-conducive charging system to serve you for years. The futuristic...

With traditional sources of energy facing a sheer decline in recent decades, vehicle designers have now started thinking seriously about the alternative fuels their concepts should rely on. Among options, there are wind, solar, thermal, hydrogen and...

Even the best intentions to stay sanitized in otherwise infected, urban environs might not be enough, unless we know how to go about it. Our lifestyle that generally revolves around apartments, urban surroundings and public places, strongly solicits a...

While hoping to go beyond the modern day helicopter’s limited load-bearing capacity, Australian firm SkyLifter is busy evolving a solar-powered airship for carrying up to 150-ton loads more than 1,200 miles. Just the perfect machine to support...

Well ahead of the United Nations’ 2012 Rio+20 Summit, the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics, the Museum of Tomorrow or the Museu do Amanhã will start prompting Rio de Janeiro folks to appreciate a true marvel of sustainable architecture...

As Amway puts wraps off its state-of-the-art $380 million Amway Center in downtown Orlando, its users stand a chance to see a highly eco-friendly, sustainable structure coming to the fore. Studded with some expressly “green” features, like...

Riding a bike is something that provides more than just the practical benefit of moving people from point A to B. Quite true, especially if we consider what the SF Bay area industrial designer Jesse Harrington is proposing through his all-inclusive...

Designed to allow Pakistani commuters make their way through over-congested Lahore city streets with ease, the TAKHT LAHORI is a zero-emission bus that relies on solar power for sustenance. Designer Ali Murtaza has supplied his concept bus with...

American forest-lovers Erica and Matt Hogan have created a unique tree house community called Finca Bellavista in secondary growth rainforest in the mountainous Southern Zone of Costa Rica. The solar powered community, which is also billed as the...

At the 12th Zhoushan International Sand Sculpture Festival, Dutch artist Marjon Katerberg created a 22.43-meter-high sand sculpture. The mammoth artwork eventually managed to go past the former world record holding sculpture – 20.91 meters tall –...