A bio facade on the House

The latest invention goes green is a zero energy house, using microalgae as a source of energy and shading. Headquartered in Germany, the home BIQ is the first to be equipped with a system of bio-adaptive façade. Entirely ecological, it is powered by algae.

These are contained in bioreactors facades that boost growth in the sunlight. Thus they provide more of a gray area. With the development of technology, biological reactors have the ability to capture solar heat and heat to produce biomass that can be harvested later. This results in two energy sources to provide power to the house.

Developed by Splitterwerk Architects, Colt International, Arup, and the SSC, the BIQ House is currently under construction. Completion is expected to sometime in March next year.

A tweet for a cookie

How about you take the cookie to a tweet posted? This is now possible with UID Cookie Box, a candy distributor who swears not tweets as a reward.

UID Cookie Box is the result of collaboration between Daniel Jansson, Alexis Morinet Sharon Williams, budding designers the Umeå Institute of Design in Sweden. Based on a concept typically marketing, distributor offers a cookie to each user who publishes a hashtag on Twitter. It comes in a box that reacts rather simplistic tweets posted. Once the tweet displayed on the screen, it lights up and the person can simultaneously receive its share of biscuit. However, the distributor does not validate one hashtag at a time, so it distributes one cookie for each Twitter account.

Currently in prototype phase, the single operational model Cookie Box is placed in a public space in Umea.