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Philippe Starck's Wind Turbine For Home Use

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Philippe Starck has been pretty busy designing stuff lately, considering just a few months ago he was proclaiming that "design is dead" and announcing his retirement. I guess the most creative minds have the most persuasive demons, and it seems Starck is trying to learn from his: after proclaiming that "everything he had ever designed was useless" he's now on to designing something truly useful and trendy: a mini-turbine designed for people to use at home to generate their own wind power.

The mini-turbine is made of clear polycarbonate (the lack of color is apparently a statement about there being so much materiality in the world) and is capable of providing 20-60% of the power needs for the average home. It will be available this coming September with a price tag around $600.

Gallery: The Philippe Starck Home Wind Turbine

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Blue Planet Globe

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

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It's a teaching tool but also a fun thing to have around the house. Like the Geochron that we have mentioned before, the Blue Planet Globe shows the amount of light and dark in the world at any given moment. The globe uses an astronomically true formula to simulate in six-minute intervals the changing seasonal patterns of sunlight falling over each hemisphere during the year. The globes comes in a tinted outer case that is sold with a customized cherry table or tinted acrylic base. It comes with a multi-setting controller allowing it to be lit or unlit, rotating or stationary. The globe is priced at $1,200 and is available from The Science Source (even though this particular model isn't on their website).

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