The reNEW solar battery charger is a unique vertical charging and storage device that is able to stick or hang from a window. The device, which is made from biodegradable plastic and felt, is both practical and sustainable, providing an easy way to store and sort your batteries whilst charging them for free with sunlight. Aesthetically pleasing, it blends in with gadgets you expect to find in the modern home, whilst keeping your rechargeable batteries together and tidy. Batteries are dropped into the reNEW charger from the top and released via a lever from the bottom when fully powered. The charger was a recent Gold Award winner at the 2009 Lite-On Awards, an event known as the ‘Academy Awards’ of industrial design that recognises the green industrial revolution now sweeping the globe. We think its a fantastic way to reuse and recycle your batteries.
With greater efficiency and more applications, I am sure your Laptop must now be a hot stuff. How can we deal with that? Designer Young Hwan Kim suggested a new concept of “Float Away” yesterday. In this design concept, the lithium battery is now get away from the desk surface, and has more space in between. As a result of that, there will be more fresh and cool air coming inside the little space, and is already able to lower the battery temperature, and extend its lifespan.
Although the majority of laptops nowadays already have little plasitcs at its bottom to reduce friction and improve the ventilation, but the height of such elevation is limited. But what I want to praise is that “Float Away” not only aid ventilation and lower the temperature, but also match with the ergonomic study, so as to allow maximum comfortability during typing.
As I have mentioned before, this is merely a conceptual design, and there is still a long way to the manufacturing stage. Anyway, let’s enjoy the gorgeous design diagrams below.
