Karadeniz Power Ship for Pakistan

SOS for Pakistan – The KAYABEY Power Ship

Pakistan is facing the worst ever electricity crisis in its history. Thanks to years of mismanagement, shortsightedness and corruption; a country bestowed with rivers, enough wind to generate 50,000 MW and a Solar belt that can also generate an additional thousands of Mega Watts of electricity, not to mention the world’s biggest coal reserves. The city of Karachi, the industrial hub of Pakistan and a city which generates almost 65 % of the country’s revenue was the worst hit. Karachiites suffered, and are still experiencing up to 12 hours of load shedding. Now a Turkish Power Ship, perhaps the only of its kind has set sail from Istanbul to Karachi which will give the city a relief of some 230 MW. This agreement has been signed for a period of 60 months, or 5 years. This may sound as good news, but the point to note here is that this is again a short term solution, it will run on fossil fuel and it is not going to be cheap, not at all.

Our daily newspapers carried this story along with a photograph of the ship which words like “ To end the power problems of Pakistani brothers and sisters”. Well, I have no qualms at admitting that I wept on seeing this picture. Not because it carried an emotional message, but because despite being bestowed with so much we are still waiting for God knows who to help us and alleviate our problems. That perhaps is the most painful thing. The leadership will never understand this, there are suffering from acute shortsightedness I guess.

Philips goLITE shines you with blue light to fight Winter Blues

We need to be exposed to certain amount of lights a day in order to stay healthy and in good mood. For those who always keep themselves in darkness, having very low exposure to lights will lead to develop depressions like winter blues and cabin fever.

Exposure to lights here doesn’t mean you need to be exposed to sunlights directly. You can simply point a lamp at your face, that will give you certain amount of lights. But, it’s definitely not a pleasant feeling for having to point a lamp on your own face as it simply blinds you from seeing other things for a moment.

Now, thanks to Philips, which they’ve just released a handy gadget, called the goLITE, which emits soft and pleasant blue lights that our body needs. Our body responds best to certain wavelengths of light. The goLITE simply emits the suitable wavelengths that our body needs. It uses optimal frequency blue LEDs to deliver the most positive effect on the body.

The light from the goLITE is actually not weak, but it is okay to human eyes, which gives little bit of visual imprint when you glance away from it. It’s certainly much better than having a lamp shining on your face that most likely blinds you for a short while. The light emitted by goLITE will give you the feeling like sunshine in winter.

The device is also equipped with a back lit touchscreen which can be used to adjust the light intensity, set timer or alarm clock, and it can be used as a desktop clock when it’s not used to shine the blue light. There is also a magnetic stand on the back that keeps this unit up on your desk.

Orange power pump charger

Orange has always wanted to promote green chargers for mobile phones. The latest charger announced by Orange is the Power Pump charger which comes in the form of a common air pump that is used for setting up a camp.

The Power Pump charger harnesses the kinetic energy from an air bed foot pump, a usual piece of camping equipment, which in turn drives a turbine to produce electricity for juicing up your mobile phones and other gadgets. The Orange Power Pump charger is definitely useful for campers, especially handy during emergency when the mobile phone is out of battery, where this charger can be useful to fill your mobile phone with juice and lets you communicate with the outside world for a rescue

Liquid Lamps may confuse others you have a messy room

Caina’s Design Shop has come out with some uniquely designed Liquid lamps for your home. They are designed like an overturned bucket with spilling paint or blood.

If you have a few of these lamps in your room, when someone opens the door and steps in, the first impression is you have an overly messy room with a few overturned buckets that have red blood paint spilling. Or you would be thought to have killed someone and filled those overturned buckets with blood.

The spilled blood or paint of the overturned bucket is actually the base or stand of the lamp. And they’ve been blended so well into it, which will deceive others when looking at it from afar. The Liquid Lamps have two color choices for the stand which are red or white.

These uniquely designed Liquid lamps are 12.5-inch in height, 11.5-inch wide and 8.2-inch depth. The red lamps carry a price tag of $262, whereas the white lamps are cheaper cost only $227.

Cute Elephant Lamp

When you think elephant is cute other than its clumsy body, you may wanna have an Elephant Lamp to spice up your living space.

That is the lamp shown in the picture, in a shape of an elephant. It gives out soft glow to your living space, and some more it serves as an eye-candy. It maybe worth having one, to replace your dull boring lamp. It costs only $74 and available at PID store.

Biro Lamp as pen holder

I’m also one of those who tends to misplace or lose a pen. Some times, I’ll still be able to retain the body but losing its cap only. And of course, some times, I’ll misplace it and no matter how hard I search around, I can’t locate it.

Losing a pen always happens to me no matter I’m in the house or in the office. That is a bad habit. Some more, I think I don’t have a prominent pen holder that is able to remind me always that I have to put my pen back to its holder.

If I had the Biro lamp, it could be a different story.This lamp comes with a lamp shade, which serves as a nice place for those pens to dangle on. If you leave the Biro Lamp close to your work space, you’ll always get reminded that you’ll need to put those pens back to its lamp shade, in order for it to look tidier with all pens dangling and aligned nicely as its extended lamp shade.

What a good idea that the Biro Lamp brings, which lets you save your pocket for buying new pen, whenever you’ve lost it.

Sol Air harnesses wind and hand-wind power to charge your gadgets

Sol Air is a wind-harnessing charger that can charge various gadgets. Sol Air was designed by industrial designer, Clarisse Paula Fernando. The charger makes use of wind and human energy to charge gadgets; it also doubles up as an alarm clock.

The Sol Air charger just needs to be placed near a window, and it’ll grab from the free energy source to store into its internal battery. If the wind isn’t blowing, you still get a choice to hand wind it to generate some juice for charging your gadgets.

You just need about 5 minutes of winding of the device to be able to charge a cellphone. The device also features a photo-luminescent casing, which captures sunlight and glows after dark. But it doesn’t convert the sunlight into electricity.