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Archive for October 2006

October 19th, 2006

New Radio: Batteries Not Needed!

Sure you do love your music. Sure you would like to have music with you anywhere you go and whatever you do. But the power for batteries are quite expensive, is it not? So you may want to try this new dynamo radio that is powered by you!
Yes, you read that right. You are the […]

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October 18th, 2006

The Shower Heated By The Sun

After swimming those nifty strokes in your swimming pool or after putting around for hours in your rose garden, you can cool off using this solar powered shower. But then again, this one can be only used in your garden and not inside your bathroom.
But still, this one would give you the chance to enjoy […]

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October 17th, 2006

Charge Your Cellphone As You Go

Those who are quite new to the solar power chargers land could try out these ones from Maplin Electronics. The company calls this the Scotty personal solar charger. Try it out and you see that it does actually work.
What is good about this one is that you can use this anywhere you may want to […]

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October 17th, 2006

Yoyo powered MP3 Player

Toss this for about 10-12 times and this will get enough charge so you can listen to your favorite music for about an hour. This was the winning entry for the Pop-Sci Core 77 Design challenge.
This new concept has now become feasible due to advances and convergence of many key technologies. MP3 […]

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October 16th, 2006

Wake Up With The Alarm Clock Powered By Water

Are you one of those people who simply hate waking up early in the morning? Or are you one of those human beings who are quite difficult to wake up when the sun is just rising?
Well, you may get some help from this alarm clock that gets it power, no not from batteries, but from […]

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October 13th, 2006

Want to have a fridge that consumes only 0.1kwh a day?

One guy from down under converted a chest freezer into a fridge and consumes only 0.1kwh a day!
Yes that’s only 100 watt-hours a day. Do you know how much this consumes in 1 hour? Lets compute, 100watts-hours in a day / 24 hours = 4.16 watt-hour. Just […]

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October 9th, 2006

Solar Powered Trash Compactor

One of the latest inventions on waste management is a Solar Powered Trash compator. The aim of this product is to reduce the frequency of garbage collection. The Santa Cruz Public works Director Mark Dettle are keen into acquiring a few units.
The solar-powered, cordless design of the BigBelly Cordless Compaction System allows the […]

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October 8th, 2006

Solar Roof Shingles - Aesthetically appealing solar solution

Some people might be bothered by the additional weight of solar panels or they simply don’t like the looks of it on their roof.
There’s one solution out there that can provide the same protection as any other roof shingles and it generates electricity too. It is called the Solar Roof Shingles. This […]

By Noel -- 1 comment

October 4th, 2006

Free Compact fluorescent light bulbs

Delaware officials unveiled an energy conservation program wherein they will hand out 2 free energy saving lightbulbs to residents.
Compact Fluorescent bulbs produce less heat and use 66 percent less energy than standard incandescent bulbs. A fluorescent bulb uses 13 watts of electricity to produce light equal to the output of a regular 60-watt bulb.
Around […]

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October 3rd, 2006

Solar Powered Broadband Internet

In today’s internet world, I can’t seem to envision myself not touching a computer for 3 straight days.
Computers and internet has been an integral part of our lives. So how about those people who live in far away places not covered by an ISP? Well here’s one in Australia that uses […]

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