Category: Home Gadgets

February 16, 2009January 6, 2010
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Inflatable Chimney Pillow to stop Chimney Draughts

If you have an older property, it’s very likely that you have a chimney. You probably don’t use your chimney every day of the year, so there’s a strong chance you’ll get draughts coming down. That’s where the comes in. The Chimney Pillow inflates into the gap in your chimey, blocking it off. If you...

January 26, 2009July 13, 2009
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EcoFan – Heat Powered Wood Stove Fan

The EcoFan is a heat-powered fan that circulates heat from a wood stove into a room. The fan generates it’s own energy to power the fan by using the difference in temperature experienced by the fan at the top and bottom. The fan is almost completely silent, and will automatically circulate air when the stove...

January 23, 2009July 28, 2010
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AeroPonics Accelerated Indoor Garden Gadget

The AeroGarden gadget ( or ) is a kit that allows you to easily cultivate lettuce, cherry tomatoes, herbs, chili peppers and more in an energy-efficient environment in your home! The kit comes with pre-seeded growth medium, fertilizer, two daylight-spectrum bulbs and the grow pod itself. The plants start to grow within 24 hours, and...

January 15, 2009July 13, 2009
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Easy Grey Water Recycling with the Removable Kitchen Sink

The Hughie Sink is a creative idea that makes it easier to reuse waste water in the kitchen. It’s essentially a large sink bowl that features a carrying handle and a sink hole. When you’ve finished using your water for washing the dishes or cleaning your vegetables, you wander outside with the bowl and empty...

January 14, 2009July 13, 2009
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Eco-Friendly Plantable Seed Calendar

The Eco Friendly Plantable Seed Calendar is a fun eco calendar, made from recycled bond paper, cotton remnants and abaca leaf fibre. Once a month has passed by, you simply plant the page in the soil. The page contains embedded wild flower seeds that will spout over time!

January 9, 2009July 13, 2009
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Shake Control – Motion-Powered TV Remote Control

A group of designers (Lee Sung Hoon, Kang Sooyeon, Cho Eun Bee, Lee Junehwa and Kim Jean) have come up with a novel re-design of the beloved TV remote control. Exploiting the energy generated by a moving magnet within a coil, the remote control is powered by simply shaking the remote control. There is no...

January 5, 2009July 13, 2009
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EcoSmart Zeta – Environmentally Friendly Open Fireplace

The EcoSmart Zeta fireplace is bizarre looking to say the least. Designed by John Dimopoulos, the director of a design and architects company in Sydney, the Zeta is named after the likeness of its shape and the Greek letter Zeta. Using stainless steel, wood and leather, the fire is completely portable and has no need...

January 2, 2009July 13, 2009
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AirGo – Portable Air Quality Warning Gadget

AirGo is a creative eco-gadget that is part of a campaign creating awareness of global warming and sustainability. The gadget measures the quantity of harmful airborne particles in proximity to the gadget using a government-defined index. The AirGo gadget is a wearable device and is powered by kinetic energy generated by the wearer’s movements. All...

January 1, 2009July 13, 2009
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Multi-Door Eco-Friendly Refrigerator

Designer Tez Patel has come up with an eco-friendly refrigerator gadget that allows you to save energy using multiple compartments. The assumption is that you don’t use all of your fridge at the same time. If you’re like me, you spread your food out into lots of different shelves. However, you might only have the...