Multi-Door Eco-Friendly Refrigerator

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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 equivalent of a single shelf of food at any given time.

Tez’s design allows for compartments that are not in use to be switched off. This means you only use enough energy to cool the parts of the fridge you are using.

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Energy Free Lighting - After-Lite

About a month ago, I was contacted by Tim LeMaster regarding the After-Lite product. The After-Lite is essentially a plastic-based disc that fits to the bottom of an energy-saving light bulb. When you have your lights on, the disc “charges up”. When you switch your lights off, the After-Lite disc carries on glowing, giving you free light!

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Morphy Richards Ecolectric Toaster

The race for energy efficient gadgets is really encouraging some smart innovation. The Morphy Richards Ecolectric Toaster for example is an intelligently designed electric toaster that uses 30% less energy compared to ordinary toasters. By using an automatically closing lid, the toaster retains considerably more heat, resulting in faster cooking times and less energy being needed.

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Energy Usage Tracking - The Energy Detective

The Energy Detective is an energy consumption monitoring eco gadget that joins a growing line of energy monitoring kits that are appearing on the market. However, where this kit really stands out is the option to have their own full-featured computer interface kit that gives you all kinds of statistics and monitoring information. Something missing from pretty much all other electricity monitoring kits.

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Netgear Introduces Green Broadband Routers

Netgear is following D-link’s footsteps by releasing some eco-friendly gadgets, in this case networking routers. The WNR2000 Wireless Router and DGN2000 Wireless Router with built-in modem now feature convenient wireless on/off switches and EnergyStar rated power supplies to reduce energy costs. Additionally, the packaging is made from at least 80% recycled materials making it a particularly green gadget.

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Philips’ Energy Saving 42-inch Eco TV

Philips have recently announced its 42″ 1080p resolution flat panel Eco TV, loaded with energy saving features and designed with the environment in mind. Using eco friendly technology, the Eco TV uses around 75 Watts, compared to other flat screen TVs which consume around 100W+. Philips has eliminated any lead from the product, and has minimised the use of mercury to the absolute minimum. Even the box is made from recycled cardboard!

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Gas Cooker Energy Saving Widget

Every so often you find a really useful green gadget that does a little bit to helping you save energy and money. This interesting little Gas Energy Saving Device helps your gas cooker to burn gas more efficiently. At the heart of the device is a catalytic alloy disc that heats up to 100 degrees centigrade. When the widget reaches this temperature, it works by helping to fully burn all unburnt gas, resulting in more heat and less wasted gas.

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Eco Resources: How to Make a Difference

We need to look after the environment, as the planet will not look after itself. However, sometimes it feels like we can’t look after ourselves! Meg Appleby at How to Make a Difference gives her perspectives and ideas on the little things you can do to be more environmentally friendly.

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Cut Energy Bills with the Radiator Booster

The Radiator Booster is an eco gadget that is installed above your radiator and uses small fans to circulate warm air away from the wall into the centre of your room. By moving warm air back into the room, the room warms up more quickly, meaning you don’t need your central heating on for so long and therefore reduce the cost of your energy bills.

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Solar-powered Fairy Lights

Solar power can be used for the essential things in life, such as replacing your primary electricity source. However, due to the small amounts of energy generated by solar cells, it makes sense to use them for the more novelty eco gadgets, such as these Solar Fairy Lights. On a 5 hour charge, these fairly lights can twinkle away for up to 8 hours on one of six different flash patterns.

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