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Just Add Water – Encouraging Bottle Re-Use

By Anita (EnviroGadget Writer) on August 25th, 2010

Just Add Water

Just Add Water is a concept for a bottle lid and flavour delivery system to help extend the amount of usage you can get from a standard water bottle. The Just Add Water idea is to allow you to refill bottles with tap water and add flavour to it to make the water more appealing.

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Vac From The Sea By Electrolux

By Anita (EnviroGadget Writer) on July 29th, 2010

Vac From The Sea Logo

The Vac From The Sea is a concept by Electrolux to create vacuum cleaners from recycled plastic. Rather than using any old plastic they specifically wish to create vacuums from the plastic they will be gathering from the sea, either from floating plastic expanses or from shore lines.

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Recycled Circuit Board Credit Card Holder

By Anita (EnviroGadget Writer) on July 1st, 2010

Circuit Board Credit Card Holder

This Recycled Circuit Board Credit Card Holder features a circuit board for both covers. The covers help to protect the cards while they are in a bag or pocket, stopping them from being bent or broken. This card holder should appeal to anyone with an interest in technology, computing or recycling.

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Orange Power Wellies – Feet-Powered Gadget Charger

By Anita (EnviroGadget Writer) on June 29th, 2010

Orange Power Wellies

Orange Power Wellies are a prototype for a welly charger. The wellies produce electricity from the heat of your feet, and allow you to make use of this electricity to power your mobile phone.

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Solar Spark Lighter – Solar-Powered Fire Starter

By Anita (EnviroGadget Writer) on June 25th, 2010

Solar Spark Lighter

The Solar Spark Lighter brings the ability to create fire to anyone, without the need of lighter fuel. This lighter will never run out and can be used anytime there is a decent light source and a small amount of a combustible substance to hand.

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ReZAP Battery Engineer – Recycle Standard Batteries

By Anita (EnviroGadget Writer) on June 23rd, 2010

ReZAP Battery Engineer

The ReZAP Battery Engineer revolutionizes battery charging as we know it. The charger allows you to charge rechargeable batteries and non-rechargeable ones, even at the same time! This technology signifies an end to disposable batteries only surviving one use.

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Recycle your Floppy Disks – Floppy Disk Plant Pot

By Anita (EnviroGadget Writer) on June 11th, 2010

Floppy Disk Planter

The Floppy Disk Planter is an effective way to make use of any unwanted floppy disks you have lying around. This home project gives full instructions on how to construct the planter, helping you to recycle these now obsolete items into something that is both useful and decorative.

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Ecotek Energy Wizard – Simple Energy Saving Gadget

By Anita (EnviroGadget Writer) on June 10th, 2010

Energy Wizard

The Energy Wizard is a device that plugs into a standard UK 3 pin plug socket to help reduce the amount of electricity being used. By implementing techniques of filtration and correction to your electrical supply, the device helps to improve your household appliances efficiency.

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Circuit Board Business Card Holder

By Anita (EnviroGadget Writer) on June 8th, 2010

Circuit Board Business Card Holder

The Circuit Board Business Card Holder by Revolve has been mostly constructed from a discarded printed circuit board. This card holder will appeal to those in the computing industry, those with a passion about computing and to those who support recycling.

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Human-Powered Play And Freeze Ice Cream Maker

By Anita (EnviroGadget Writer) on June 2nd, 2010

Play & Freeze Ice Cream Maker

The Play and Freeze Ice Cream Maker is a ball that helps you to make ice cream through motion. The ball requires ice and salt to be put into one end and the ice cream ingredients to be put into the other. Through playing with the ball, kicking it about for instance, the mixture keeps moving allowing it to chill into soft scoop ice cream.

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