LG Viewty KU990 leather case: images

More pictures of the hand-made LG Viewty case:

Homemade LG Viewty leather cover

Problem: The LG Viewty KU990 mobile phone does not have a lens cover. It is also a touchscreen phone, making it prone to scratches.

Solution: Buy an expensive LG Viewty mobile phone cover in leather or crystal online

No. Stop.

• Take one piece of scrap ‘leather’ scavenged from the side of a road (no really!)
• Mark, measure, cut.
• Sew.

 

Result: One ‘leather’ case for the LG Viewty (U990 and KU990) that has so far prevented the phone from getting damaged. It’s a sleek, cheap, recycled solution to a very modern “problem”.

No child labour, sewing machines or factories in sight – this was made by my girlfriend in our flat in Brighton.

There are already some ideas for Version 2…

Wind to Light

These 500 tiny little wind turbines power led lights. They were recently featured on InteractiveArchitecture.org and were commissioned by riba london and onedotzero for architecture week 2007 and until September 1st were an “an ephemeral cloud of light” on the South Bank.

the installation is custom built, using 500 mini wind turbines to generate power, which illuminates hundreds of mounted leds, creating firefly-like fields of light, with wind visually interpreted as electronic patterns across the installation.

oneotzero.com/windtolight

I’ve been lucky enough to spend time in Denmark where wind turbines are a part of the country’s landscape. They are symbolic not only of classically clean and modern Scandinavian design, but a commitment to harnessing renewable energy sources. In 2005 wind power produced 18.5% of Denmark’s electricity. I hope the Wind to Light instillation helped improve peoples perceptions of wind power by visualising it in an urban environment.

 

 

I’d love to see this “animating the movement of the wind by a digital, electronic means” myself. It would please me more to see other countries embrace the Danish attitude to wind power. Accounting for almost a third of the world wind turbine industry the Danes ship 90% of annual production abroad (Vestas & Maersk are world leaders in these respective fields) whilst wind turbine cooperatives back home have built and installed over 5,000 turbines.

After oil crises, global warming and Chernobyl the Danes invested in wind turbine technology and took a step towards become a more advanced, sustainable society whilst I continue to burn my way through fossil fuels like a carbon monster in England, throwing half my life into landfill instead of reusing, recycling and rethinking.

 

Wind is power – let’s use it!

The Scribble Snake is born

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Make yourself comfortable and slither around the site. Well, once there’s something to read it’ll all make more sense.

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