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Sustainable Yo-Yo a Metaphor for Sustainable Design
The Yo-Yo itself is a metaphor for sustainable design. When you release the Yo-Yo with skill and care, it comes back allowing you to continue to enjoy the benefits over and over again, expelling little energy. If you just throw the thing out there with reckless abandon it’ll get all tangled up into a big [...]
Harnessing the Awesome Power of the High Five
See end of post for full schematic This ground breaking technology from Cunning Labs could be the most promising alternative energy innovation yet. The system taps into the vast energy potential of the “High Five” to generate electrical energy.
iYo Yo-Yo Makes Charging Electronics Fun
Swedish designer Peter Thuvander has thought up one of the most interesting gadget charger designs I’ve seen in awhile. The iYo Yo Yo is—you guessed it—a yo-yo that charges electronic devices. The yo-yo, which is still only in the concept phase, stores energy in a lithium-ion battery which can be used to charge your iPod [...]
