The Dew Drop – Automatic Plant Watering Through Condensation

Industrial designer Jacky Wu has designed a simple artificial leaf to aid us in our plant watering.  This concept design has been named Dew Drop and aims to keep your plants watered without you ever needing to move a watering can.

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The Aerated Showerhead By Ecocamel

Ecocamel FIXED Aerated Showerhead is easily added to a shower to save both water and energy. Though it uses a lot less water than a conventional showerhead, due to its design and technology, it produces a ’spa like’ shower feel.
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Wall-Mounted Rain Water Butt

With it being the wet season, particularly in Europe, it makes sense to collect as much rain water as possible ready for the spring. Due to growing populations, clean water is becoming increasingly scarce. Rather than use fresh drinking water to water your garden, why not just collect rain water? It’s free! If space is an issue, a wall-mounted water butt is a simple device to collect rain water without needing a large garden. (more…)

Water and Energy Saving Efergy Shower Timer

The Efergy Shower Timer is a simple gadget that helps you save water when having a shower, simply by beeping when it’s time to get out. If you have an electric shower, you’ll save on your energy bills as well as your water consumption. Once you’ve calibrated the timer, you simply press ’start’ when you get into the shower, and the timer will beep when your time’s up! (more…)

Perfect Flush – Toilet Water Saving Gadget

If you don’t have the money to upgrade your toilet cistern every few years, you’ve probably got a pretty water-inefficient toilet. Replacing the toilet is not a minor job, as a change in tanks might require the need for new tiles or wallpapering. A lot of hassle, expense and not particularly eco-friendly due to the re-decorating it would require. However, there’s now a way of saving toilet water using your existing tank, by installing a variable flush system, called the Perfect Flush. (more…)

Small Wonder – Electronic Hard Water Treatment Gadget

The Small Wonder device is a gadget that reduces limescale build up in your pipes by using electromagnetic fields to alter the chemical makeup of hard water. It’s the dissolved calcium and magnesium mineral salts that cause limescale to deposit in your pipes, kettle, water boilers. The Small Wonder gadget uses the electromagnetic field to keep the mineral salts as a suspension, which decreases salt saturation in the water, and therefore helps the softened water to dissolve existing limescale deposits. (more…)

Waterwall Fatboy Tank – Huge Rainwater Storage Vessels

The amusingly named Fatboy Tank is a large water vessel designed for your garden to store an impressive 650 gallons of harvested rain water. The tanks only measure 7′6″ (2.29m) w x 6’7″ (2m) h x 2′4″ d (0.71m) and are designed to be free-standing on a level area of ground. The tank is made from a UV stabilised high density polyethylene, which means light does not penetrate the tanks and therefore prevents algae from growing inside the tanks. (more…)

H2Orb – Gadget for detecting Toilet Leaks

The H2Orb is an eco-gadget that can be installed between the water supply and the toilet hose, with a special toilet bowl sensor and a tank sensor unit. With all of these sensors, the H2Orb can detect excessively running flushes, toilet bowl overflows and checks for leaks. The device costs just $127, but will pay for itself in a single year by preventing leaks. (more…)

Zuvo Water Purator – 5-Step Water Filter

With the move towards using fewer plastic bottles, we’re encouraged to be drinking a lot more tap water. Although tap water in Europe and North America is perfectly safe to drink, some connoisseurs of drinking water don’t like the after-taste of tap water. The Zuvo Water Purator offers a 5-step filtration process using a combination of UV light, Ozone and filtration to remove most of the impurities that remain in tap water. (more…)

Energy Saving and Water Saving Smart Shower

The smart shower is a multi functional and energy saving shower desired for the James Dyson Awards. The shower uses heat exchanger technology to reduce energy consumption, and aerating shower heads to reduce water consumption. The shower has an integrated work basin that allows you to bath babies, wash your hair and other cleaning activities. (more…)