Eco Friendly Mobile Phone By Daizi Zheng For Nokia

This conceptual mobile phone designed by Daizi Zheng aims to replace conventional mobile batteries with an eco friendly version. It was designed for Nokia as a phone battery that is cheaper to produce, uses less resources in its production and its life time of use, while also being able to be disposed of in an environmental manner.

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Dyson Energy Bracelet – Wrist Phone Charger

The Dyson Energy Bracelet is a pretty novel gadget that uses the thermoelectric effect to generate electricity to charge up your cell phone. Due to a difference in temperature between the surface of the skin and the ambient environment, a Peltier element converts that temperature difference into an electrical current, which is stored in a battery on the wrist strap. (more…)

Swap And Go Green LPG Cylinders

If you use natural gas or low power gas for camping for BBQ stoves, then these funky low-pressure gas (LPG) cylinders are a simple way to use natural gas without the hassle of using normal cylinders. Rather than having to wait to get your cylinder refilled or checked, you literally just grab a new bottle and hand your old one back. (more…)

Roll Charger – Battery Charging with Chinese Therapy Balls

The Chinese therapy balls have long been used in Chinese medicine as a way to stimulate acupuncture points in the hand and to loosen stiff joints. As someone who suffers from hand pain on occasion, I think that they’re a great way to improve mobility in your hands and fingers. A product designer by the name of Jiang Qian has combine this hand therapy gadget with a battery charger! (more…)

Sunforce 12-Volt 400-Watt Wind Turbine Generator

If you ever thought about putting up a wind turbine in your garden, you might have been put off by the cost of them. Decent wind turbines easily cost in the thousands in most currencies. If you fancy playing around with a wind turbine, but can’t afford the thousands for a powerful turbine, then perhaps consider this smaller 12-Volt 400-Watt Wind Turbine, which only costs $570! (more…)

Lighting for your Swimming Pool powered by water

If you’re lucky enough to have your own swimming pool, then you’ll have some pool lighting. These clever EcoLights, designed by Lysandre Follet are powered by a built-in turbine that powers the bright LEDs. This means you don’t need to worry about installing electricity in and around your pool. (more…)

Citrus-Powered Eco-Friendly Clock

If you don’t already have a solar powered or wind powered clock, then you might fancy this rather odd lemon powered clock. The clock exploits the lemon’s citric acid as well as the copper and zinc on the clock to generate enough current to power the clock for a week. (more…)

Mini Wind Turbine Eco-Friendly Charger

If you want to exploit wind power, you’d normally need a monstrous wind turbine that would cost you thousands. Wind power is probably the most efficient of alternative energy sources for residential uses. Unfortunately, the cost of such a system along with the wind requirements precludes people from wanting to use it. However, this neat eco gadget, a mini wind turbine charger is small enough to hold in your hand or attach to a bike. It needs only 9mph of wind to start charging the internal battery, which can then be used to charge many devices, such as mobile phones, digital cameras and iPods. (more…)

Shark & Tuna Inspired Power Generation

We’ve learnt a lot from nature, such as flight and medicine. Scientists in Australia have designed an innovative power generation system inspired by the shape of the tailfins of Tuna and Sharks. The currents on the ocean floor impose a force on the fin of the BioStream device. The to-and-fro motion of the fin is directed into a specially designed gearbox that converts the oscillating motion into a rotational motion that drives a conventional dynamo. (more…)

Inflatable Solar Panels that fit in a Backpack

A British company by the name of IDC has announced it’s about to release a new eco gadget, a solar panel product designed to replace hot water tanks. The SolarStore product is designed to heat up to 3 full tanks of water a day by harnessing heat energy from the sun and storing that warmth in the water within the inflated solar panels. (more…)