These amazing coconut shell bowls are from Bambu, a company that makes contemporary products using eco-friendly and renewable materials. [via]

Ed Stafford, a former British Army captain has just become the first man to walk the length of the Amazon river in South America from the source to the sea. He started on 2nd April 2008 and finished on 9th August 2010, after 859 days of walking. What an amazing feat. Congratulations!

Ed started the expedition [...]

Jelloware are disposable cups made entirely out of agar agar (a gelatinous substance derived from red algae) and cast in different flavors, such as lemon-basil, ginger-mint, or rosemary-beet, each specifically designed to compliment a corresponding drink, thus making it edible cups.

Jelloware is bio-degradable, so it can be thrown on to grass. Since it is made [...]

Shoes and sportswear brand Puma has launched a smart phone called the Pumaphone with some interesting features.
Targeted as a sports lifestyle product, the quad-band GSM Pumaphone hosts some interesting sports features like the run and bike tracker that takes advantage of the GPS capabilities. It comes with a 2.8-inch, 240×320-pixel resolution touch screen and [...]

Brilliant approach to represent the ink usage of various fonts. [via]

Bambu uses eco-friendly and renewable materials to create contemporary products for homes and kitchens. Recently they introduced Bamboo Pebbles.
These award winning pebbles are handmade from the excess bamboo material left over from the company’s cutting boards and solid-ware pieces. The bamboo pebbles have the look of smooth, well-worn river rocks and make for beautiful, [...]

Scientists at the Eni-MIT Solar Frontiers Research Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have created an inkjet-style printing technology that can successfully print solar cells on paper.
The paper solar cells are one of many avenues being pursued around nano-scale materials. Layers of these materials could essentially be sprayed using different manufacturing techniques to make [...]

The Copenhagen Wheel project was conceived and developed by the MIT SENSEable City Lab for the Denmark’s Copenhagen Municipality, Kobenhavns Kommune. Copenhagen Wheel transforms ordinary bicycles quickly into hybrid e-bikes that also function as mobile sensing units.
Controlled through your smart phone, the Copenhagen Wheel becomes a natural extension of your everyday life. You [...]

Amazing concept design by Andrew Kim. The stack-able square design is not only beautiful but also good on the carbon footprint side because of the efficiency in transportation.

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