Category: Outdoor Eco Gadgets

January 6, 2009July 13, 2009
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Lyman Morse PowerCube – High-end Portable Solar Power

The boat builder specialists have used their marine expertise to develop the PowerCube. Working with a company called Reluminati, PowerCube has been designed as a solution for off-grid energy supply. Whilst the sun is shining, the PowerCube can supply 600 watts of power. As you can see from the photo above, the PowerCube is a...

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...

December 26, 2008July 13, 2009
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Hydra – Water-Efficient Easy Garden Watering System

The Hydra watering system is an easy to install and aesthetically pleasing garden irrigation gadget. The Hydra was designed as a solution to avoid home owners needing to dig up their garden to install a watering system. The Hydra uses a range of sensors to determine when to water the garden, saving up to 25%...

December 3, 2008July 13, 2009
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Solar Powered Camera Bag

If you’re an amateur or professional photographer, you’ll know how quickly your digital SLR cameras eat through batteries. I imagine that you use rechargeable batteries, otherwise it would cost you a fortune in standard disposable batteries. The Solar Powered Camera Bag is an ideal eco gadget that will help keep your camera batteries fully charged....

November 19, 2008January 13, 2010
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SteriPEN – Portable Water Purifiying Gadget

The SteriPEN is an eco-friendly gadget ideal if you’re travelling to areas with typically unsafe drinking water. The SteriPEN will allow you to refill your water bottles (rather than buy bottles from a shop) and ensure the water is safe before you drink it. The pen uses shortwave ultraviolet light which damages the DNA of...

November 12, 2008November 6, 2008
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Stylish Powered Cycling – IZIP Trailz Enlightened

One of the many ways of being more eco-friendly is to appreciate the great outdoors more. Walking, jogging and cycling are fantastic ways to enjoy fresh air, the environment and get a little exercise. The IZIP Trailz Enlightened bicycle has a special power-assisted cycling mode, which can push you along without peddling up to 18...

October 17, 2008July 13, 2009
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Eco-Friendly Fishing – BioDegradeable Fishing Line

If you’re into your fishing, you’ll know that sometimes the line will just break or it needs to be cut for safety reasons. Unfortunately, most fishing lines are petroleum-based polymers that can take up to 600 years to break down. This huge length of time can have a surprisingly devastating effect on marine life. However,...

August 11, 2008July 13, 2009
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BioDegradeable Picnic Plates and Utensils

Most western societies have a very throw-away nature, one of many reasons our landfill sites are filling up fast. I applaud this use of eco friendly technology, a , as it means it doesn’t matter if the plates, etc get left around in a field after a festival or picnic, as it’s all 100% eco...

July 28, 2008July 13, 2009
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Toilet Humour – Actually a Crap Idea

The “Shit Box” is a wonderful trademark name, despite not being a product you’d chat about with your parents or other prudish family members. You’d need to be a fairly liberal individual to want to use the Shit Box, which is an eco-friendly portable toilet. All components are biodegradable, yet the toilet box itself is...

July 9, 2008July 13, 2009
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Hand Powered 2-way and AM/FM/NOAA Radio

If you’re stranded in the middle of nowhere, the last thing you need is to be scrambling around for batteries so that you can radio for help. You might have a solar panel, you might even have a few AA batteries floating around. But batteries don’t last forever, and solar powered chargers take several hours...