Online Observations

Convert office paper waste into toilet paper

Yes, you read that title right. Someone created a machine to convert office paper into toilet paper. This is basically a paper recycling plant which you can place right in your office. The machine was created by a Japanese company (nutty inventors, them Japanese) called Oriental. If you visit that link, you will notice that the website is in Japanese. You can try Google Translate on the page to read it in English. The machine is called WhiteGoat (seriously, I couldn’t make heads or tails of the name), and it basically takes your office paper waste in from one end, and throws out toilet paper rolls out the other. Here’s how the website depicts this process:

Basically, you are saving the environment by using this machine (they say). It does operate at 1100 watts, and takes about 30 minutes to convert 40 A4 sheets into one toilet paper roll. Which means that unless you are using clean electricity, you might still be producing a lot of pollution using this machine. Here’s a video about this machine on YouTube from an exhibition where this machine was demonstrated.

 

Oh also, it is supposed to cost $100,000 (couldn’t confirm this from the website), and weighs 600 Kg. Still, it could save you a ton in toilet paper cost and earn you environment points at the same time.

A step in the right direction

Here’s something real cool. But before I tell you what it is, let me ask you: how many devices do you have that get charged through a USB port? I thought so. Almost everyone today has one device or more which use USB to charge. And yet, we don’t have the ability to charge directly from the wall without using a special adapter.

Well, that is changing. Take a look at the following picture:

Yup, it’s a wall socket with two USB ports built-in. And this device is a near reality and is currently pre-ordering for less than $20.00. Here’s the link to the manufacturer’s site which explains the specifications and gives some more information about the socket: http://store.fastmac.com/product_info.php?products_id=458. I love it when technology moves in the right direction.

Seriously awesome and cool drinks

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Jones Soda. All opinions are 100% mine.

Although this is a sponsored post (disclaimer above), this is one of those things that I would have blogged about anyway had I got to know about it earlier. Jones soda, which allows you to customize the packaging of the soda that it markets, has come out with a Dungeons and Dragons series of their soda bottles. Take a look at the soda bottle to the left, wouldn’t you like to get your hands on one of these bottles? I would love to see them in my refrigerator.

And looking cool is not the only thing that Dungeons and Dragons Jones Soda is good about. Take a look at the flavors: Potion of Healing, Sneak Attack, Dwarven Draught, Illithid Brain Juice, Bigby’s Crushing Thirst Destroyer, and Eldritch Blast. Can you even imagine what these taste like?

Let me try – Sneak Attack will be a drink which starts off mild and you would think, hmm.. this doesn’t taste like anything, but then suddenly as you are thinking that, comes and after taste that takes your breath away, and you want more… heh heh, probably not, but it would be cool if these drinks were something like this – magical.

Anyway, I think they are still very cool, and the names are perfect. This set of bottles is perfect for gamers and fans of the genre. As I said, I would love to have some of these in my refrigerator. Each flavor has a bottle which is potentially a collector’s item, with distinct graphics on the labels. Follow that link to check out each one of them.

If anyone’s tried any of these flavors, let us know in comments what they taste like. If not, then try to guess what each one tastes like (not wild guesses like I did, on second thought, go crazy). Anyway, if nothing else just visit that site to look at the really cool bottles, and have a great day.