Greener Gadgets: Design Competition for Greener Gadgets

The third edition of the conference for Greener Gadgets has just ended in New York: Greener Gadgets. A design competition was opened. Here are three solutions have been elected and taken to the skies by the jury.

Each year for three years, events in New York brings together all geeks and techies with a green fiber. The idea is to see a preview of a set of electronic products determined to do more to help our planet. As in previous years, this gathering has been accompanied by many exciting lectures - according to reports I have read, because I have not been there, unfortunately - and amazing demonstrations.

A design competition accompanied this new edition, which allowed the public to vote for 18 finalists green gadgets a rigorous selection process. Here are three solutions have won this competition:

Winner: AUG / Living Goods Program

This application is used from a smartphone, will receive information on products like fruits & vegetables by scanning its barcode. The application will then display the source of this product, how many miles he has traveled to get here, will present a curve changes its taken over the past weeks and the comments of people who bought this product, etc.. Nothing will escape you when you prepare the soup of the weekend.

Second: Empower

This is a very nice approach for converting a chair or a bench into a power generator. Each person sitting on a chair or banns with such a system can produce energy by swinging like a rocking chair. The method will allow recharge his mobile phone or laptop in an airport, train station, or any place where his chairs will be available.

Third: Illumi-Load

The idea of this solution is simple: to offer in the walls of the USB ports to recharge our mobile devices, just as there already taken power. But the Illumi-Load is not connected to the grid. It produces its own power using a solar collector. The tool comes in the form of a photovoltaic cell and a battery at its base, USB sockets. The solar panel converts ambient light - even artificial - in power permanently. Simply plug your phone or what you want it to recharge then.

With all that, I think we'll have fun.

To discover more, you can go find a report proposed by our friends from Inhabitat .