Posts by Category: Eco Friendly

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Awesome August 26, 2010 posted by
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EDGE house – Makes down sizing your home stylish and beautiful

A lot of folks are thinking about down sizing their homes these days, if that’s you then this EDGE house is a compact way to go. The award-winning EDGE, which stands for Experimental Dwelling for a Greener Environment, is a 320 square foot home designed by Wisconsin’s Bill Yudchitz of the design firm Revelation Architects. Meant to show that we can live greener and better lives in smaller well crafted spaces, the EDGE house is a modular home complete with…


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Eco Friendly August 25, 2010 posted by
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ESCO Sensor Lamp – world’s first motion sensing eco lamp

This ESCO Sensor Lamp is the world’s first motion sensing eco lamp. So not only will it only come on for brief periods when it senses movement in the room or area, but it will also use less electricity as it illuminates. It also offers over 8000 hours of light up time, and is fully user customisable in terms of timings and brilliance etc. Now that’s what you call a smart lamp. £15.98. You can use this bulb anywhere as…


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Eco Friendly August 24, 2010 posted by
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Tango vs Tesla – electric car shootout

We first stumbled on the Tango way back in 2002, struck as we were by the fact that it’s probably one of the world’s ugliest electric cars. The Tesla Roadster, however, is one of the most elegant and desirable electric vehicle on the road. So what happens when one meets the other in a timed race?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRn38s5wClY Tags: tango+vs+tesla, electric+car


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Eco Friendly August 7, 2010 posted by
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USB Solar Charging Port Hub – charges, powers, connects and shines

The USB Solar Charging Port Hub works hard all day so you don’t have to. You can plug your flash drives into it as needed, stick it in the sun to recharge the internal battery as an emergency power brick, and even carry it along to LAN parties to demonstrate the versatility of your adapter tips. Oh and it’s also an LED flashlight. Life doesn’t get any finer than this, my peeps, it really doesn’t. $22.00.  The USB Solar Charging 4-Port Hub with Torch is not only a…


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cool tech August 6, 2010 posted by
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Hama Zero Solar Powered Bike – 220 km of travel for just 2 Yen

The Hama Zero Solar Powered Bike can travel for 220 kilometres for a cost of 2 Yen ($0.02). That makes it rather cheap to run, right? Top speed is 72 km/h and it takes 20 days to charge up. We jest, but note that the video does say you use mains power to charge when it’s a cloudy day. Interesting product, and notice the ultra frictionless wheel tech. We could see that in other products soon maybe?  “Here’s the solar panel,…


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cool tech August 5, 2010 posted by
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Denmark’s Net-Zero-Energy Home – our homes may have a future as power generators

The Danish Net-Zero-Energy Home shown above may look ordinary but it could transform the way we live in our cheap energy restricted future. The house uses a truck load of high technology allied to cost effective materials like wood to deliver a building that generates more power than it consumes. As you’d expect the building is beautifully designed in that typical Nordic simple style, but alongside the traditional fixtures and fittings you’ll find extensive installations of photovoltaic solar panels, heat pumps, triple…


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Eco Friendly August 2, 2010 posted by
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Solar Bicycle Bag – keep your stuff powered up as you move

OK, so you’ll need sunshine, but the idea behind this Solar Bicycle Bag seems cool. Just attach the thing to your bike bar and keep phones, music players, ice cream makers and the like charged up as you roam. It ships with two compartments (plus a wallet type enclosure) and a bunch of different adapters for various handheld devices.  The Solar bicycle bag is composed of a sturdy mesh black nylon material. This Solar bicycle bag has one sturdy adjustable…


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Bookmark This! July 30, 2010 posted by
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Solar Powered Wireless Webcam – keeping tabs on remote places 24/7

Iain Barclay bought a field one day. And wanted some way to look at it, when he wasn’t there. So he went ahead and built himself a clever Solar Powered Wireless Webcam –  which he calls a FieldCam –  using some off the shelf parts, a 3G cellular phone dongle and router, and a custom circuit board. The result is very cool. He’s stuck the box in the field, and set it up to trickle charge constantly, and power up the…


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cool tech July 29, 2010 posted by
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Urbanlit-e 1603 Electric Folding Bicycle – light, small, zippy dippy

This new Urbanlit-e 1603 Electric Bicycle is a Chinese model which actually looks decent, comes with a reasonable spec and appears to come with a reasonable weight of just 19kg all in. Judging from the photos it won’t fold into a very small package, but it’s probably enough to cram into a car when needed. Range is 35km, charging time 5 –  7 hours, and the low price of £646.25 reflects the fact that it’s using a cheaper brush type motor…


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Bookmark This! July 27, 2010 posted by
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How Much Energy Does Your Website Use?

How Much Energy Does Your Website Use? Interesting little service which analyses your website’s power consumption on load. I’m happy to report we’re significantly under the average. Goodness knows which sites are lighting up a bulb for over 25 seconds.  Enter your website address below to find out how much energy is used each page load! Tags: how+much+energy+does+your+website+use, ecological, online+application


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Awesome July 26, 2010 posted by
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Arboform – liquid wood is better than plastic and vastly more earth friendly

ArboForm is a ‘sustainable’ plastic type material invented by a couple of German dudes, Juergen Pfitzer and Helmut Naegele, which is 100% renewable, totally biodegradable (you can even burn it like wood) and can be formed into just about any shape you need. The material is made from lignin, a component of wood and a by-product of the paper making process. Apparently the paper industry throws away around 50 million tonnes of lignin every year, which makes it very attractive as a low cost plastic replacement….


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Eco Friendly July 26, 2010 posted by
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Makani Air Turbines – taking power from the wind with added complex

It strikes me – as a rank amateur of course – that the last thing you would want in order to generate electrical power from the wind, would be a complex tethered kite concept. The Makani Airborne Wind Turbine system however combines just these elements in its  proposed low cost power generation product. There’s lots of nice charts, pics and videos on the site, but you can’t help feeling that any system which relies on swinging an aircraft around on a bit of string at…


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Eco Friendly July 23, 2010 posted by
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Scratch and Scroll Mouse Pad – the low tech alternative to the low tech Post-It Note

This Scratch and Scroll Mouse Pad combines one of those lift and delete reusable scratch pad thingies with a mouse pad type format. Yeah it’s primitive, but pretty useful too, especially for those quick phone number moments where you need to jot and run. £17.97.  There’s no more collecting little bits of paper all over your desk and screen – when you’ve finished with the information, just flip up the semi-transparent top sheet and you’ve got a clean slate! (Which…


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Eco Friendly July 22, 2010 posted by
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Solar Dwarf Lights – the garden gnome goes all high tech

The Solar Dwarf Light proves that there’s nothing sacred when it comes to the world of the microchip. These cutesy little garden gnomes contain a solar panel, rechargeable battery and an LED light to give your garden a little twinkly feel come twilight. And you thought gnomes were just for decoration?  Solar Panel: crystal silicon solar panel Battery: NI-MH/CD battery, 1.2V 600mah Light source: super bright LED LED color: 1pcs white light LED. Material: Poly resin Working time: 8 hours…


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