Inhabitat's Week in Eco-friendly: 'Plantscraper' vertical farm, new wave energy along with a battery-powered apple iphone case

Every week our buddies at Inhabitat recap the week's most fascinating eco-friendly developments and clean tech news for all of us -- it is the Week in Eco-friendly.

Groundbreaking eco-friendly architecture burst into existence in Sweden now as Inhabitat reported that Plantagon started construction around the world's first 'Plantscraper' vertical farm. We marveled at artist Yayoi Kusama's dazzling Infinity Mirror Room, which stands out using the insights of 1000's of LEDs, and that we shared the bubbly modular Amplifiers living wall system. Meanwhile, the MoMA PS1 Youthful Designers Program introduced that HWKN's vibrant blue spiky ocean-urchin formed pavilion is going to be appearing this summer time, PinkCloud.DK revealed intends to transform oil refineries into giant energy positive towns and also the United kingdom granted planning commission because of its first amphibious house.

We displayed several amazing programs for LEGO bricks now: a New york city apartment refurbished with 20,000 plastic bricks, a gigantic LEGO-inspired chapel within the Netherlands along with a amazing fully articulated prosthetic LEGO arm. Talking about next-gen prosthetics, now Israeli researchers demoed a genuine-existence "Star WarsInch VISOR that allows the unaware of see, and Nike required the systems off a prosthetic running sole for amputee triathlete Sarah Reinertsen.

This marked a heated week for energy news as photo voltaic energy heavyweight Sunpower prosecuted Solarcity over stolen data, and Aquamarine Energy targeted as much as connect its new wave energy generator towards the UK's national power grid. We got ready for rough days ahead using the waterproof, armageddon-ready, photo voltaic-billed, battery-powered apple iphone situation, and that we got things cooking with Biolite's brilliant new camping stove, which converts waste warmth into electricity for USB devices. Finally, i was impressed by a number of amazing new programs for thrown away tech: Sean Avery's astounding animal sculptures produced from shattered Compact disks and Paola Mirai's elegant jewellery fashioned from thrown away computer circuits.

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