March 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

Despite the caveat that few entries are likely to appear on store shelves any time soon, browsing through the list is both amusing and encouraging: Encouraging, for instance, with regard to possible new directions in the design of cell phones or in extremely clever applications for solar-cell tech. Amusing, for example, as manifested in a smart-aleck shower stall with a floor that gets uncomfortable if the user spends too much time using precious water. And even downright inspiring, with conceptual proposals for the techno-equivalent of nutritional data labeling or a plan suggesting that — gasp! — maybe no gadget is the greenest of all.

As Simone Pallotto of Belgium put it in her entry: “I think of a ‘greener gadget’ as a ‘no gadget’ at all. ‘When the world faces massive environmental issues, why are we making plastic dogs,’ Ross Lovegrove said. We are currently producing too many not useful things, being for practical or emotional purposes; too much trash we accumulate everyday! Let’s try to make more important things, with more soul. Next generations will have a better world.”

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