By recovering clothes discarded in the West, Togolese designer Amah Ayiv gives them new life through his high fashion creations.
Design & Fashion
With E-Kaia we can source electricity from plants
Small mobile devices can also be charged with plant-extracted electricity. You just need to connect them to an E-Kaia charger.
The short life of the batteries installed in modern digital devices is a big problem for those who regularly use smartphones and tablets for business or study purposes. Exactly for this purpose Carolina Guerrero, Camila Rupcich and Evelyn Aravena, three students of engineering in Chile, invented E-Kaia, a particular device that charges small devices respecting the environment.
As one of the inventors told a Chilean newspaper in an interview, “Our technology uses energy from plants. We believe that a biocircuit that can convert it into power, is useful to charge low energy consumption mobile devices and, at the same time, protect the plant”. E-Kaia is, in fact, a device that, once buried in the soil surrounding a living plant, supplies energy through a USB port.
This sort of transformer harvests the solar energy the plant captures during the natural process of photosynthesis and turns it into electricity. Without damaging the environment nor the plant’s life cycle.
At the moment, the biocircuit can output up to five volts and 600 milliamps, a reduced quantity of energy, and this can charge a smartphone, a tablet or a lamp having a USB port. The trio of inventors that aims to launch E-kaia in the national and international market soon, wants to keep on developing their project.
Maybe one day we will source most of the electricity we need from nature, so to have a broader range of renewables and we will replace the traditional methods of energy production and supply that have a strong negative impact on the environment.
Cover image © photo.elsoar.com
Siamo anche su WhatsApp. Segui il canale ufficiale LifeGate per restare aggiornata, aggiornato sulle ultime notizie e sulle nostre attività.
Quest'opera è distribuita con Licenza Creative Commons Attribuzione - Non commerciale - Non opere derivate 4.0 Internazionale.
All catwalks in July will be broadcast online: after Paris, it’s Milan Digital Fashion Week’s turn. And the biggest beneficiary is the environment.
The book Fashion Industry 2030 aims to contribute to reshaping the future through sustainability and responsible innovation. An exclusive opportunity to read its introduction.
From fashion to design, from architecture to construction, biomaterials and their applications are constantly multiplying. And designers are responding to this revolution in many different ways.
A new study on linen, presented at the Milano Unica trade show, highlights the material’s numerous advantages and low environmental impact.
Victor Papanek spearheaded social and sustainable design based on political awareness rather than consumerism. A biography of the author of Design for the Real World.
Two world-famous designers, Ross Lovegrove and Marcel Wanders, on the relationship between plastic and design. The stimulus for this conversation was offered by an exhibition at the past Milan Design Week inviting 29 designers to rethink their approach to this (now) demonised material.
Getting people to consume less is important, but it’s not enough. There has to be a cultural shift, and design is likely to have a key role in transforming our approach to plastics.
A journey to discover leather tanneries in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, among terrible working conditions, pollution and laws left unenforced.