This is the Greenest Site Ever’s first ever guest blog post! Be kind to Dan Harrison of Envirogadget.com and DailyEcoTips.com.  He’s a Brit so take it easy on him.  They are very sensitive, especially around tea issues.

…and back to “Being Eco-Friendly Means Losing Your Sense of Style”

Here’s a great example.  NC State University has decided that it was a good idea to find a pattern for clothing that could camouflage the solar panel so that it didn’t look so ridiculous! I think they failed. Their choice of pattern for the solar cell looks even worse than the solar panel itself:
FAIL!

FAIL!

 Why didn’t they think of a way to re-design the surface of the solar cell so that it could be matched to any other clothing? Rather than match the clothing to the panel? Look at the solar-powered tie, it looks stupid. Supposedly good for charging your phone using the pouch in the back of the tie. It does make your phone that little more vulnerable though. Probably wouldn’t take much for it to fall out either.

Then there’s the solar-powered fan on a baseball cap. Right, if you have no shame and enjoy having people pointing and laughing at you, it’s perfect! Sure you can see the practical use for it, however, it does nothing in the area of aesthetics. It’d rather waft a newspaper in front of my face than wear that cap.

 

Wearing this means you have given up on ever finding love.

wearing this means you have given up on ever finding love.

So listen up green-gadget-clothing designers! Make stuff that people would actually want to wear!

This article was written by Dan Harrison of EnviroGadget.com and Daily Eco Tips.com. Dan is enthusiastic about green gadgets and encouraging people to do their bit for the planet in small easy steps.

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Posted by GreenestDudeEver, filed under Green. Date: August 30, 2008, 1:41 am |

One Response

  1. Johan Sheridan Says:

    Wait, I thought I wasn’t allowed to make comments?

    Anyway, the bigger issue with the baseball-cap-fan is that YOU CAN’T SEE BECAUSE YOU HAVE A FUCKING FAN IN THE MIDDLE OF YOUR FUCKING FACE, YOU STUPID LOSERLY MORON!

    I am not talking to the British person who wrote this post, though I am British. I am instead talking to any fucking moron who would ever attach a big solar-powered fan to their face. Who cares that it’s ugly? You’ll be too busy falling down stairs that you couldn’t see. Whoops!

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