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Your office will never waste paper again with Oriental’s White Goat machine, which converts normal paper into toilet paper. Simply insert about 40 sheets of paper, and in 30 minutes you’ll receive a freshly made roll of toilet paper. The machine shreds the paper, dissolves it in water, thins it out and then dries it and winds it around a roll. According to Oriental, it costs about 12 cents to churn out one roll.

Your office will never waste paper again with Oriental’s White Goat machine, which converts normal paper into toilet paper. Simply insert about 40 sheets of paper, and in 30 minutes you’ll receive a freshly made roll of toilet paper. The machine shreds the paper, dissolves it in water, thins it out and then dries it and winds it around a roll.
15 bizarre green inventions

When designer Mike Thomspon asked himself, “What if power came at a cost to the individual?” he ended up creating the blood lamp as a statement on energy conservation. This single-use lamp requires a drop of blood to be activated — a personal sacrifice that will really make you think twice before turning on the lights. The lamp’s secret ingredient is luminol, the chemical forensic scientists use to check for blood, which glows blue when it reacts with the iron in red blood cells.

15 bizarre green inventions

An energy-saving socket concept that’s not for the easily startled
The PumPing Tap is a spring-loaded electrical socket that physically ejects plugs belonging to appliances and electronics that are not being used but still drawing small amounts of energy in standby mode.

Push it real good: Prototype lawn tool entered in online invention contest
Doug Renfro’s The Big Push, a yard cleanup tool meant as an alternative to both old-fashioned rakes and noisy, highly polluting leaf blowers, is entered in Walmart’s Get On The Shelf contest.

13-year-old’s solar invention sparks debate
Young scientist develops solar power collector that mimics the pattern of leaves on a tree.

An energy-saving socket concept that’s not for the easily startled
The PumPing Tap is a spring-loaded electrical socket that physically ejects plugs belonging to appliances and electronics that are not being used but still drawing small amounts of energy in standby mode.

How renewable energy may be Thomas Edison’s revenge
Edison built the first electrical distribution system using direct current electricity, but his system was less scalable than Tesla’s alternating current. However, direct current electricity is making a comeback, becoming a promising money-spinner in renewable or high-security energy projects.

‘Noah’ may mean difference between life and death
The pod, christened ‘Noah’ for the maker of the ark, keeps water out and its occupants afloat, all the while protecting them from floating debris.

Man creates robotic pancake maker with LEGO blocks
The Pancake Bot was built using LEGO blocks and a ketchup bottle (to hold the pancake batter) and programmed to create specially shaped cakes. Watch a video of the robot in action.