If you’re into quirky lighting, you’ll love this solar light. The Daylight looks like a normal glowing light shaped like a lamp during the night. Yet when you want it to charge during the day you flip it over so that the solar panel is exposed. These brightly colored lamps would brighten up any home or patio. They’ll work for indoors or outdoors and you’ll never have to deal with changing light bulbs or batteries, plus there are of course no wires to worry about.
I believe that if we could harness all the kinetic energy from all things that are in motion, we would have no trouble powering any of our technological devices. This concept has now been applied with the nPower PEG personal energy generator.
All that is required is that the user plug in their electronic device, and shake the stick. Or, if you want to be practical about it, go for your morning run. You can clip it to your belt, put it in a bag, or even hold it in the air like a baton at a relay race. Electromagnetic induction transfers the kinetic energy from the movement and turns it into useful power for your mobile device.
Different eco-friendly flashlights have been seen before. The ones I have seen most often are the hand crank type, which never seem to be as bright as I’d like. Well instead of being stuck with a hand crank that after 20 minutes of cranking, you get a few miniscule minutes of light, you could go for the solar route. Having a solar flashlight is a lot more convenient, since you can lay it in a windowsill and forget about it. Then when you do need a flashlight, it’s all charged and ready to go.
It’s an ugly gadget kind of day apparently. First it was the strange USB speaker, now it’s this mystery gadget. After staring intently at the three different pictures, I’m still not sure what it’s supposed to be. Gathering from the name, it’s some sort of bug that the creator cooked up in their head. The creator was kind enough to state that he’s a goth bug, because he loves to dress in black rubber. Although he’s a confused goth that needs the sun to survive.
If you’re attempting to go green, this cute little radio will help you along the way. It seems a little outdated to me, just purely because I recently wrote up the Active Trax Solar Audio Player. Which had a solar panel and a hand crank, as well as being a speaker and being able to play the regular radio. This new gadget comes a little short of that, not by a ton, but it’s missing one major perk that a lot of people would miss. It can’t actually be hooked up to your iPod. It only has the function to play the radio. However, it’d be great for those striving to be a minimalist.
As America has been gearing up towards the digital TV handover on February 19 (which may now be delayed if Obama gets his way), the obsession at CES over the past few years has been bigger is better in HDTVs. Panasonic is currently the king of the kill with a mammoth 150 inch LCD screen (so huge, it needs it’s own cargo plane and a team of technicians to ship and install). But along with the Ballmer era at Microsoft, 2009 represents a new change as “thin” is now in for HDTV design. It’s been coming since last year as OLED technology has matured. But now, it’s out in the open and proud of it. Thin is in and everyone is vying for the thinnest, lightest HDTV. And who’s topping the profile mountain at the moment? Panasonic again with a plasma TV that’s 1/3 of an inch thick.
I’ve just seen an interesting demonstration by Greg Taylor, the inventor of the KVAR energy saving unit AKA KEC. The KEC unit is claimed to reduce your electricity bill by up to 25%. It works by magic optimizing the wattage and voltage curves making the delivered electricity more efficient.
The savings only work with inductive electric motors, which are one of the major power consumers in many homes (washing machines, air conditioning units, driers, etc).
The domestic unit retails for $399 and can be fitted by a qualified electrician, return on investment is rapid (12 months) and along with the saved energy costs it also increases the life of the motors and appliances.
The demonstration did look impressive and if it really does what it says then the technology will save people a fair amount of money but it did seem a bit too good to be true.
Further information can be found on kvarnrg.com.
We’ve all heard that rechargeable batteries are the more environmentally friendly way to go. The reasons a rechargeable battery would be better are fairly obvious. You use them more times, so that’s less waste to go into the landfill. However, this year at CES Fuji is claiming that they will be debuting an environmentally friendly non-rechargeable battery. Which might not make it as good as a rechargeable, but would be better than nothing.
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