Rocking Knit

This would be right up my alley. I could hire lots of seniors to produce stocking hats and all they have to do is sit and read or watch TV.  SOMEONE FROM ENGINEERING GET IN HERE - STAT!

 A spool of yarn feeds a geared mechanism on top that slowly knits a wool tube descending towards whoever's keeping it powered. When it's large enough for your noggin', you just need to tie off the top. It's another one of those art for art's sake projects that will at least earn a design student their degree. But as functional furniture goes, this one's hard to beat. As seen on GIZMODO

One of the best Re-Uses I have seen in a long time

One of the best Re-Uses I have seen in a long time and sorry to say it isn't one of mine!

A round of applause and a tip O' the hat goes to Rodrigo Piwonka, the artist who came up with this. A plastic CD Spindle case that gets a second and (hopefully) long reuse as a bagel sandwich holder. Very cool. Very Hip. Very Smart.
Read more at Inhabitat

URINE: Not just for gardens anymore!

Someone call Crunchy chicken. Seems there is a new use for pee/urine:
From Inhabitat.com:
Assistant architecture professor Ginger Krieg Dosier recently unveiled a new breed of biologically “grown” bricks that are durable, sustainably manufactured, and easily produced from readily available materials. Called “Better Bricks,” the building material can be “grown” from sand, common bacteria, calcium chloride, and urea (yes, the stuff in your pee) instead of being baked, which consumes a ton of energy.

It seems that producing the 1.23 trillion bricks manufactured per year right now creates more pollution than all the airplanes in the world!
Better Bricks were conceived by Ginger Krieg Dosier, an assistant architecture professor, in a lab at the American University of Sharjah, in the United Arab Emirates, as a solution to the enormous environmental impact of producing all of the bricks the world needs each year.

Read more: Researcher Grows Durable "Bio Bricks" From Sand, Bacteria, and Urea Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World