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Less than a week after making an unprecedented climate change speech at Georgetown University, President Barack Obama took another historic step for the environment by signing an executive order to combat wildlife trafficking.

The order pledges $10 million to combat the illegal wildlife trade, a presidential task force that will develop a national strategy and a promise to work with international groups and governments to crack down on trafficking.

“The survival of protected wildlife species such as elephants, rhinos, great apes, tigers, sharks, tuna, and turtles has beneficial economic, social, and environmental impacts that are important to all nations,” it reads. “Wildlife trafficking reduces those benefits while generating billions of dollars in illicit revenues each year, contributing to the illegal economy, fueling instability, and undermining security.”

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Today would have been Franz Kafka’s 130th birthday. The following is an excerpt of a letter that Kafka wrote to his father, Hermann Kafka, in 1919. He was hoping that it might be a peace offering, as the father/son relationship had disintegrated and fallen apart over the years. Kafka gave it to his mother to deliver, but she never did, returning it to Kafka instead. He died of tuberculosis five years later.

Dearest Father,

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For those of us who tend to travel a whole lot, you would know that getting enough rest along the journey is key to ensure that you arrive at your destination as fresh as possible, and this mantra is even more important if you happen to cross several time zones along the way. Forget about the in-flight entertainment, get some sleep. The thing is, our necks tend to feel plenty of strain when we sleep on those contoured seats that never seem to fit the curves along your body, and since most of us travel cattle class, here is a little something that might help you out – the £19.99 Hoodie Travel Pillow.

The Hoodie Travel Pillow will arrive in black, gray and red colors, where it boasts of an inflatable neck-brace style support alongside an integrated hood. Being made out of comfortable fleece material, it comes with a special ‘privacy’ drawstring to stash away your identity in a jiffy, not to mention ensuring that harsh fluorescent light or sunlight will be kept at bay. Something tells me that version 2.0 of this, assuming it ever rolls off the production line, would be accompanied by a pair of built-in speakers for some private entertainment.
[ Hoodie Travel Pillow copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]

Smog, haze, smoke, exhaust… The atmosphere is full of pollutants these days. Unfortunately, there’s not much you can do about it. You could go out and face the world wearing a mask, or you could just slip the Hand Tree around your wrist the next time you take a stroll – assuming it existed.

The Hand Tree is a concept design by Alexandr Kostin that marries wearable technology with a relatively common appliance, the air purifier. The bracelet is essentially a wearable air purifier that filters air on the go, surrounding its wearer with fresh air that’s minus all the unpleasant smells and particulates normally found in city air.

It’s a neat concept but I think the task of shrinking a normally bulky air purifier down to wrist size would be very, very challenging.

The Hand Tree is a semi-finalist in the Electrolux Design Lab 2013.

[via Yanko Design]