Design student Jillian Tackaberry‘s Air Drop is a beautiful hanging pendant that uses the purifying power of plants to clean the air in your home! Created for the Electorlux Design Lab competition, the planter features a built-in system that promotes the air-filtering properties of the Tillandsia air plant.

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Ingo Maurer is a world-renowned creator of innovative and highly artistic lighting installations that use completely custom mechanisms, minimized connectors, and unexpected materials. His latest LightStructure collection, unveiled during Milan Design Week at the Euroluce exhibition, dazzled onlookers by making a highly technical product into an inspiring object of desire. What makes LightStructure so amazing is that the lines that suspend each tubular LED light bar also provide power without any additional connectors or wires.

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The UK company GTech reimagines cordless vacuuming to create a top marks for low energy consumption and high performance. Using only 100W of power from a 22V Lithium ion rechargeable battery, the AirRam is more than fours time as energy efficient as most corded vacuums, and runs twice as a long as competitor cordless models. This sleek cleaning machine is packed with many other features — including a tracker to count the calories you’ve burned while cleaning — that make it worthy of comparing to the biggest names in vacuums on the market.

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NYC-based Dash company recently debuted a prototype of a Greek Yogurt Maker that makes delicious, creamy yogurt free from fake sugars and preservatives. Not only does this product have style, but it saves on packaging from purchasing yogurt in plastic containers. Best of all, it can even whip up vegan yogurt goodness from non-dairy milks like coconut, soy, or almond!

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Read the rest of Kiyoshi Mino’s Amazing Felt Sculptures Blow Taxidermy Away

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Sprouts and edible grasses are very rich in nutrients, but anyone who has ended up with mush instead of tasty green knows that growing them at home can be tedious. Fresh wheatgrass, micro-greens, and sprouts are amazing foods, because they have a high concentration of proteins, vitamins, minerals, enzymes, bio-flavonoids, t-cells and other nutrients. The Freshlife sprouter makes it easy to grow them indoors with automatic hydroponic watering and a stacking tier system that let you fit more into a small space.

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Vapur introduced several new products at the 2013 International Home + Housewares Show that expand their line of BPA-free “Anti-Bottles” – including a new filtering technology that safely removes 99.99% of bacteria and organic matter (it can make even river water potable). With a collection of fun new colors and super cute DIY customizing kits for kids, Vapur is encouraging the whole family to keep hydrated.

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Author Angela Youngman has released a guidebook that will immerse you in world of green roofs through case studies, imagery, and must-know terminology related to design, build, and installation of these vegetated scapes. Green Roofs is not a self-help manual, but rather a light read that takes a broad stroke look at many of the variables and considerations surrounding what should really be called “living buildings.”

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There are safety advantages to decking out your bike like a shining beacon when sharing lanes with petroleum-powered traffic, but the Clarity Bike explores the opposite end of the spectrum. This super-strong and stealthy cycle sports a see-through frame made from an advanced transparent polymer. Aiming to revolutionize how bike frames are engineered and produced, the creatives from Designaffairs Studio in Munich, Germany explored high-tech plastics used to make windscreens on fighter jets.

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Read the rest of Specimen’s Hand-Crafted Horn Speakers Are Made from Recycled Newsprint and Dryer Lint

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Read the rest of Extraordinary Sustainable Retreat by roomTEN Design Opens Onto Michigan’s Lake Shore

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Read the rest of Top 10 Crazy Christmas Trees Made from Bottles, Bikes, Shopping Carts and More!

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Read the rest of 10 Architectural Gingerbread Creations from 2012 to Make You Salivate!

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When they are doing their job effectively, you might not pay any attention to the outdoor lamps that illuminate your nighttime path. But the recently launched Solar-powered Bollard Lighting Collection from outdoor lighting company Reliance Foundry incorporates cutting-edge technology that deserves to be noticed. Using an on-board advanced Energy Management System (EMS) that expertly manages light based on the weather and lighting requirements, this new solar-powered system provides bright and even illumination that is reliable and automatically adapts to environmental changes. The Bollard lamps also run entirely off of clean energy, with each lamp drawing from an embedded photovoltaic panel that generates solar power that is stored for uninterrupted performance. The new lighting system is the most powerful solar-powered path light on the market.

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Read the rest of DIY: 10 Amazing Homemade Terrariums That Also Make Great Gifts!

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We had to share this ambitious gingerbread masterpiece replicating in small scale Frank Lloyd Wright‘s Fallingwater, created by culinary artist Melodie Dearden. On Dearden’s Garden Melodies blog, she shares the painstaking process of building such an intricate model from baked gingerbread sheets and quite a lot of frosting. For those not familiar with Fallingwater, it was built in the late 1930s in Western Pennsylvania, and it is famous for its cantilevered structures that peer, somewhat treacherously, over a waterfall. This home is a complicated plan that appears to float above the water, making it that much more challenging to recreate with only sugar to hold your building together! Read on to see how Melodie pulled it off.

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Earlier this month at Designtide Tokyo, local studio Nendo debuted Bottleware: a collection of beautifully crafted dishware that gives new life to recycled glass Coca-Cola bottles. The green-tinted bottles were originally developed for a returnable program that washed and refilled customer’s empty containers. Looking for a way to upcycle “returnables” taken out of circulation, Coca-Cola partnered with Nendo studio, which is known for its ability to created refined objects rich with sentiment.

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Read the rest of Healthy Home Chicago: Inhabitat Gets a First Look Inside Amazing Green Chicago Home

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We got our first glimpse of the Nautinox Greenline Collection of planter box furniture back in April at the Milan Furniture Fair, and the Italian furniture manufacturer recently showcased a new bookshelf with a trellis structure that allows creeping vines to weave their way behind your reading material. We love how the rigid mechanical steel frame is softened by the plywood shelves and growing plant life – its’ a perfect juxtaposition!

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