E-bag's way cool satchel

Juniper Foo | Nov 05, 2008

(Credit: Apor Puspoki)

Too bad this one's still just pixels on the drawing board. Otherwise, this would have bagged a spot on CNET Asia's Top 100 Gift Ideas this year-end for tree huggers. Using Peltier technology to harness kinetic energy from movement isn't new. However, Hungary-based designer Apor Puspoki adds a dash of fashion vogue to his E-Bag concept, putting the cool into the cooler bag.

The notion is to tap the back and forth motion caused by lugging the 3-liter E-Bag, to generate power that chills the food within. Which, personally, is a far more elegant idea to chunky solar panels. Puspoki uses the bag's handle, attached to a dynamo, to charge the battery through its rotations. That aside, the only giveaway to the bag's high-tech stature are three LED indicators that keep tabs on the cooling status. Thumbs up for responsible design thinking, which goes to show that urban consumerism need not be wasteful and carbon-hungry.

Via Tuvie

Filed under: Future Tech
Leave a comment | Bookmark | Share