Created by renowned trash artist HA Schult to raise awareness about polluted beaches, the "Save the Beach Hotel" was made from 12 tons of garbage gathered from European beaches in a few days.
Art installation took up residence outside the Vatican in June last year and is now on tour to raise awareness about Europe's trash-covered beaches, currently you can find the hotel in Madrid.
Toyota has expanded the Prius badge into a brand, unveiling a family of vehicles at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. The Prius c concept is one of them. The ‘c’ represents the “city”-esque features of the new hybrid vehicle – has the automaker trying to appeal to the younger generation of drivers with its impressive fuel efficiency, compact styling, spacious interiors and slew of advanced techologies. The Prius c Concept is expected to hit the roads some time during the first half of 2012.
The Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani has hosted a lavish house-warming for his new 27-storey residence, believed to be the world's most expensive home.
This is the extravagant £630m ($1bn) home built by a billionaire Indian tycoon to house his family-of-four in Mumbai.
“Deeply concerned about the natural environment, Robson sees herself as an eco-activist who uses her art to address urgent issues poetically, not polemically. She is best known for assembling cast-off plastic bottles, which she colorfully paints, into wildly inventive hanging sculptures the smaller ones sometimes containing LED lights and large works that fill entire rooms.” (Art in America Magazine Oct. 2009)
Patrick Hyland is working on creating a "charger-free cell phone future." This means lowering electricity consumption and no annoying chargers anymore. He's proposed a cell phone that charges with heat. A conductive copper skin transmits heat to a thermogenerator inside, producing electricity when the phone is placed on a radiator or inside a pocket.
Lamborghini Sesto Elemento Concept
