When rushing to work, many people take a trip to a trendy coffee shop to get their much-needed caffeine fix for the morning. However, the paper or polystyrene cups with plastic lids are not the ideal vessels for the eco-friendly to be drinking out of. For the most-part, neither the paper or the polystyrene are...
The is perfect if you don’t have a garden, but you want to grow your own herbs, flowers or vegetables indoors. Just like the AeroPonics Accelerated Indoor Garden, the Self Sustaining Indoor Garden provides all of the light, water, and nutrients needed to grow almost any plant you want.
For those of us who live in hard water areas, limescale can be really frustrating and expensive. Limescale leaves unpleasant white marks on surfaces, often providing a home for bacteria and stains to dwell. Usually, we use acid-based chemicals to break down the limecale, which is not too great for the environment. As an alternative,...
It’s not unusual these days to get through loads of batteries, since we seem to have an increasing number of gadgets. The can help you save money on the batteries you buy, simply by charging up non-rechargeable batteries (i.e. standard alkaline batteries) up to 10 more times! You can charge up to 4 batteries at...
The is a more advanced eco experiment kit aimed at childen aged 12 or older. The kit features a total of 30 experiments that gives children hands-on experience with fuel cells and electrolysis. There’s an experiment that breaks water down into the component parts oxygen and hydrogren using electrolysis, and then a number of experiments...
I recently reported on Eternaleds Hydrolux light bulbs, well, they’ve been innovating again and they’re now selling their LED floodlight bulbs that have an 80% energy saving compared to their incandescent counter-parts. The Eternaleds 9W LED Floodlight and Eternaleds 18W LED Floodlight are a drop-in replacement for any screw-type standard E27 medium base socket, replacing...
Most of the eco toys that I’ve reviewed probably have more appeal to the boys than the girls, simply because boys prefer gadgets a bit more than girls do. However, here’s a toy aimed a little more towards girls, namely a . The doll house is made from sustainable fast-growing bamboo, which has been treated...
The Motioned Powered Speed Bump is a novel method of generating energy from the weight and movement of cars over them. The speed bumps look more like a flat metal plate than a traditional concrete speed bump. The metal bumps have long think pedals running across the top which are pressed down as a car...
There’s no question, that since the launch of the iPhone, there have been a flurry of products just for the iPhone, where us iPod Touch users have been missing out. Well the has been designed to keep your iPod Touch fully charged whilst your out and about.
The Energy Curtain is a novel and attractive alternative for a window blind. Using special solar-energy collecting cells on the outer side of the blind, the blind stores up energy during the day. Then at night, you can have the blinds glowing to provide you with free lighting. However, the blinds do need to be...
