5 eco concepts

Swirl is a conceptual washing machine that has been designed to be used in places where water isn’t easily accessible. This zero-electricity washing machine features a swirled sphere-shaped basket and a lid. When doing laundry, the user can stuff the sphere with clothes and roll the Swirl to a water source to fill it. Once filled with water and clothes, the washing machine can be rolled back, in a process to rotate the drum to wash clothes. When not being used, the Swirl can be used as a clothes basket or a water barrel.



The Fog Shower is a shower minus the droplets. Perplexing isn’t it, but that is how you can have a five-minute shower with just two liters of water. The Fog Shower is a concept by Brazilian design student Joao Diego Schimansky. The concept uses a system by which water droplets are condensed into a microscopic mist. So, you will be showered by a directed fog of water vapor than water droplets, thus saving a lot of water and energy. Watch out for this concept design, which might become a commercial reality sometime in the future.



The Dew Drop device extracts water from thin air for plants. The Dew Drop works on the principles of condensation. All the user has to do is to plant the artificial leaf in the same pot as the plant and connect it to a wall plug. Water condenses on the leaf and is fed to the plants.



Ace Unplug: So how many of you actually remember to switch off your gadgets from the mains and unplug them (saves power costs in the long run!). Not many I guess, the Ace Plug is like an eco-voice that makes sure you do a job out of it; otherwise it will annoy the hell out of you with its pesky noises, till you pull out the plug. There is another highlight to the thang, in the darkness, in case you have the inclination to plug-in gadgets; it has this sweet spotlight that you can flick on. Saves you the trip of switching on big lights!



Designer Mikhail Stawsky came up with the Mechanical Mobile, a concept cell phone that can be charged by spinning it around your finger. Touchscreen technology meets the Wild West? This design might be for the modern day cowboy. Like gunslingers of old, the quickest draw to twirl and power their phone wins?