Green Living: Amazing Green 5000 Square Foot Home

RIVER ROAD

"This 5,000 square foot residence, providing the setting for work, daily living and play, explores a full range of “green,” sustainable technologies, including: geothermal HVAC, foam-in-place insulation, windows constructed of reclaimed cypress, vegetated roof, rain-screen wall construction, cistern for storm-water collection and landscape watering, efficient lighting, water-saving plumbing, and segregating functions that allow portions of the house to be closed off when only partially occupied. The four-bedroom house compound includes combination living/kitchen areas, dining/library, master bedroom/home office and a 2-bedroom guest wing..."

Source: [Inhabitat] [Studio-A Architecture]

Looxcie Wearable Camcorder

Almost straight out of a Bond film, the ear-mounted Looxcie camcorder continuously records as long as it's on and doubles as a Bluetooth headset. It stores 5 hours of video, and automatically deletes the oldest footage to continue recording. You can even receive calls without interrupting the video recording. The Loxcie app adds to the device's functionality by offering video streaming, sharing (Facebook, YouTube, or Twitter), and editing to select Android smartphones. Video is encoded in the MP4 format with a 480 x 320 resolution. Available via http://www.looxcie.com for $199.

Big Boy Toys: The DROBO Elite

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Meet the King of All External Hard Drives,

The Drobo Elite.

Grow your storage in line with your data capacity needs with minimal effort. To add capacity, simply insert a new hard disk or replace your smallest disk with a larger one, even when all eight disk bays are full. Unlike traditional RAID systems, the BeyondRAID technology found in Drobo Elite enables you to mix n’ match disk brands, capacities and speeds. This allows continuous expansion as disk capacities grow. With DroboPro expansion is automatic, instantaneous and access to data is always maintained.

Not only can this hard drive hold eight 2 TB hard drives, totaling in 16 TB of possible media storage, it also has "Dual-Disk Redundancy' that backs up your data even if you remove three of the hard drives. The price tag is a little high though, starting at $3499 and with 16 TB of storage it cost $5899. It makes a great holiday gift though.

Some of its draw backs are that only 12.48 TB of storage is usable due to the disk redundancy, making the price tag very high for only 12.5 TB. But the Drobo Elite is made for businesses and allows multiple servers to connect to it.