Join British student invents a solar-powered refrigerator
In Namibia, Miss Emily Cummins is known as “The Fridge Lady”. This is because she invented a solar-powered refrigerator that is can help many poverty-stricken Africans.
The solar-powered refrigerator works with two cylinders, one inside the other. The inner cylinder is metal while the outer one is wood or plastic. In between these two cylinders is either sand or soil, which can be soaked with water. The sun’s rays heat the wet material, and as the water evaporates, the heat is removed from the inner cylinder. This keeps the fridge at a cool six degrees Celsius.
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Solar Power Auto Cooler
Although you can’t exactly switch your entire world of gadgets into solar-powered ones, you can certainly take care of the smaller gadgets. Having some sort of a fan to keep you cool when you’re not in the mood for air conditioning requires you to use more power from your car. However, if you picked up this Solar Power Auto Cooler you could easily handle taking some edge off of that heat.
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Solar Powered Race Car
Most toys are powered by batteries, especially those with mechanical motors and lights while emitting sounds for an even more engaging play experience. Well, most parents would also have noticed by now that purchasing batteries over and over again just to feed a particular toy can be quite taxing on the pocket, which is why there is this thing called “rechargeable batteries”. However, there are even times when one can forget to juice up a particular set of batteries, and solar power is what we’re looking at with the Solar Powered Race Car. This fun solar racer is agile enough to move along at 3m a second, and for £14.95 you get to build it from scratch to encourage thinking and motor skills in your little one. Capable of going up 30 degree slopes without any problem, the solar panel can be adjusted for optimum speed and power. Of course, if you want it to run and there isn’t enough solar power to keep it going, you can always rely on a solitary AAA battery to have it move those wheels.
Double Solar Lamp Post Light
Lamp posts are a much more attractive way to offer outdoor lighting. They’re far more classic and interesting than just having an ordinary porch light. The down side is that it means you’ll be running wires if you do want a lamp post. That is unless you pick up a solar powered alternative, then the set up would be a whole lot faster.
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Solar Window Light
I usually keep a flashlight near the backdoor of my house, so it’s handy if I need it, but this Solar Window Light would be just as useful. Instead of grabbing a normal flashlight when you need a little illumination, you could pull this light off of the window. After hanging out on the window all day long it’ll have plenty of juice to keep you from tripping over random tufts of grass in your backyard.
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Cri-Cri, small solar-powered plane
We have reported on a lot of solar-powered planes before. Like the Solar Impulse, which is capable of a 26 hour flight, then there is the Zephyr, which broke the record for solar-powered unmanned flight.
This is the Cri-Cri, and it is a solar-powered plane that is really only designed for a quick flight. How quick? Try about 15 minutes.
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Pet Rock goes Solar Powered
Some of you might remember the Pet Rock. It was a fad in the seventies decade by advertising executive Gary Dahl.
Apparently, he made a perfect pet that required no feeding or grooming, and included a custom cardboard box with a little bit of straw. He sold it for a $3.95 each, and it made Mr. Dahl a millionaire in December of 1975.
This new version of it has solar panels, and can do more than the seventies predecessor. It starts to dance as long as there is light, and there is a video if you don’t believe me. I know that I barely believe me on this one.
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Slim Accent Solar Light for tricky stairs
If your patio steps are away from any source of light, it can make walking down them tricky for any clumsy relatives you might have visiting. Thankfully there are these tiny lights that don’t require you to do any wiring to get them up and running. Just hook them up and they’ll help you make your steps a little safer.
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