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»Legacy« (2005) is a 21-foot-long rainbow made of cast street sweepings that emerges from a planter on MetroTech Commons in Brooklyn. The rainbow’s seven bands range in tone from brown to gray, and are flecked with color. They are cast from actual debris collected on seven consecutive days by the city’s street sweeping machines: dirt, grit, gravel, gum wrappers, bottle caps, socks, plastic combs, and whatever other litter the sweeper picked up during the course of a day. There is a small bronze beard that appears to be crawling out of the hole in the ground where the rainbow emerges. By Corin Hewitt. (via VVORK)

ASUS has released the ASUS EcoBook, a notebook that features laptop cases made of bamboo and manufactured using ecologically friendly manufacturing techniques. ASUS also offers a leather covered notebook line.

(via netscape)

Last weekend in Tokyo, Sony unveiled its new eco-friendly “odo” line powered solely from good old fashioned human-made power. For instance, the odo Digital Camera is powered by putting your fingers in the viewfinder holes and spinning it until it’s ready to take your picture. (via core77)

Designer Jamie Wieck presents a business card that helps you being remembered. When watered it will grow alfalfa or cress.

The SECCO shop (SECCO stands for Sustainable Economy Collection Company) sells objects and accessories made from waste materials.

James D. Watson, who helped crack the DNA code half a century ago, last week became the first person handed the full text of his own DNA on a small computer disk. But he won ’t be the last. Soon enough, scientists say, we will all be able to decipher our own genomes for as little as $1,000. (article in NYTimes)

Greenbottle has developed biodegradable milk packs. Read more about it over at springwise

(via newsomatic)

10 animals that won’t exist in 10 years

Iconglobe has interesting test results about the understanding of symbols for public spaces.