Island Technology 
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New technology is making islands more accessible than they have ever been. One new technology that is particularly intriguing is portable water filtration. One of the newest devices on the market is SteriPEN’s new Sidewinder portable water filter. This ingenious produc utilizes a crank-powered bacteria-killing UV light to create a full [...]
Underwater Ocean Dwelling
Although living on a private island is the ultimate way to live on the open seas, in the not too distant future people may be living on private islands but man made structures located below the water. One new proposal by UK-based designer Phil Pauley envisions a biosphere set in the ocean that would create [...]
Futuristic Floating City
If global warming continues and scientists predictions are correct are many of our children and great grand children may find themselves living on self-sustaining floating island cities.
One of the newest floating islands is a complex proposed by the Shimzu corporation. This completely self sufficient floating ecotopia that is covered in vegetation, generates its own power, grows [...]
Fake Islands to Fend off Oil
Artificial islands are being proposed as a means to help halt the effects of the oil spill in the Gulf Coast. As news surfaced that the giant cap meant to contain the spill failed, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal announced his own plan to save the coastline from mass amounts of incoming oil. Jindal is proposing [...]
Hawaii Sized Plastic Island
Probably one of the most bold island development proposals I have seen in a long time a group of architects from the Netherlands have proposed a crazy idea to take all the plastic floating in the Pacific Ocean and recycle it into a floating island the size of Hawaii.
Climate refugees would be able to move there [...]
Richard Bransons Underwater Plane.
To make his private island even more exclusive, Richard Branson has added an “underwater plane” to the compliment of luxuries at his ultra exclusive Necker Island.
The billionaire entrepreneur, recently ranked the world’s 212th richest man, gave the Oprah Winfrey Show unprecedented access to Necker, his 74-acre Caribbean island. He gave presenter Nate Berkus a tour [...]
Underwater Skyscraper: A Self Sufficient City
Upside down, self sufficient, floating island cities. The future will no doubt be an interesting place to be, where potentially millions of people will be pseudo-islomaniacs.
Touted as a self-sufficent floating city, Sarly Adre Bin Sarkum’s Water Scraper utilizes a variety of green technologies. It generates its own electricity using wave wind, and solar power and it [...]
Affordable-Portable Water Filtration
Planning a trip to a remote Private Island and concerned about access to potable drinking water. If so there are some great products out there to make islands even more habitable. One of the most interesting portable water filters is the Water Bobble.
Selling for just $9.95 US these BPA free portable water bottles are made [...]
Branson’s Underwater Explorer
Entrepreneur, adventurer and island owner Richard Branson is seemingly always pushing the limits of innovation and technology. One of Bransons new projects is aimed making is already exclusive private island in the BVI even more luxurious.
Branson’s Virgin Group will be offering rides in the winged submarine called the Necker Nymph at his exclusive private island [...]
The Venus Project
Global warming and ever increasing population growth has resulted in a virtual army of scientist, engineers and architects planning for a future where land is increasingly scarce. One of the more popular concepts that has begun to emerge as a solution to this problem is to take advantage of the planets expansive Oceans.
One think tank [...]