The Eton Scorpion is a multifunctional device best suited to those who like outdoors activities. The Scorpion combines an AM/FM radio and LED torch with a USB charger for your portable electronics within its robust splash proof exterior and even includes a bottle opener. The Scorpion can draw power either through its large solar panel or from you turning its wind up/crank handle.

The Eton Scorpion is a useful multipurpose device for anyone who likes to go camping, hiking, caravaning, or just likes the safety aspect of having such a device about. The device has a built in AM/FM radio to keep you informed of the latest news, weather reports or just so you have some music to hand. It features a LED flashlight to provide you with a light source that is ready for use at any time, be it to light your way or attract the attention of a rescue party.

The Scorpion is a robust device, covered in a rugged exterior skin to protect it from any knocks and bumps. The device is also splash proof to allow it to be safely used in the rain. The internal battery can be charged in two eco-friendly ways, by leaving it in a sunny spot with its large solar panel facing up it can charge from the sun or for cloudy days or for a more immediate effect its inbuilt crank/wind up handle can be used to provide energy.

This energy can be used not only to power the torch and the radio but also to charge any of your portable electronics through its USB port. This allows you to ensure your mobile phone is always in power in case of emergency, or that your camera always have enough charge to take pictures when you want them most. The Eton Scorpion is a great multifunctional tool to have around in a car or backpack and due to its use of eco-friendly energy sources you have both peace of mind that it will provide you with power when you need it most while not harming the environment.

The Eton Scorpion is yours for £49.99 with free delivery.

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The MIA Flashlight Lamp is a solar powered light that can be used either as a traditional torch or opened out to create a lamp. This concept allows you to only need to take the one light with you to satisfy different lighting needs.

The MIA Flashlight Lamp is a concept that has been created by designer Jia Dai to provide a light that is able to be used to suit a range of lighting needs. The light is capable of charging itself through its solar panels even during use as a lamp. The lamp feature allows you to hang the light up to be a lamp for situations like when out camping or even in your house. To charge the light you need to ensure that the solar panels are left in a bright spot. By letting the light charge through the day you ensure it can provide illumination at night or whenever the torch is required.

The light makes use of the energy efficiency of LEDs, the LED allows the light to produce a bright focused beam for the torch and a spread illumination as a torch while using very little electricity. This concept light would provide a handy light, either as a torch or as a lamp that is powered through eco-friendly energy as long as you can remember to leave it to charge!

Source: Yanko Design

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This Solar-Powered Keyring Torch is a small but powerful LED torch. The torch can charge from both sunlight and ambient light to provide you with a powerful focused beam of light when required. The tiny size of the torch makes it practical to be taken anywhere with you in case you require it.

The Solar Keyring Torch uses 3 LEDs along the front edge to provide you with a focused beam of light when it is required. The 3 LEDs can be used to provide light for around 2 – 3 hours when the internal battery is fully charged. It can take around 6 hours to fully charge the battery. Though direct, bright sunlight is best for charging the torch quickly and efficiently the torch can charge from the ambient light within a room. This allows you to leave the torch keyring on a surface like a desk with the solar panel facing up in a room that is lit for use and have the peace of mind to know the torch is charging.

The ability to charge in even weak light allows the torch to be able to provide you with illumination whenever you require it with only a little forethought to ensure it has had some time charging. The solar panel and LEDs are housed in a shockproof rubber casing, which helps to protect the torch from any bumps and knocks that it might incur in a pocket or bag, especially next to keys.

The keyring torch measures only 5.9 cm x 3.4 cm x 1 cm (2.3 in. x 1.3 in. x 0.4 in.) which helps to ensure that it is always practical to take the torch with you wherever you are going secured onto your keyring, in a bag, or attached even to a coat. The Solar Keyring Torch provides you with a bright and powerful torch in a small and portable package, perfect for taking anywhere to ensure you always have a source of illumination on you in case it is required.

The Solar-Powered Keyring Torch is yours for just £7.95!

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The DynaSolar Dual Powered Torch provides a strong, bright, focused light beam from eco-friendly energy whenever you require it. The torch can use both solar power and wind up hand-cranked energy.

The DynaSolar LED Dual Powered Torch incorporates the two most popular eco-friendly methods for powering a torch in one device. The torch has an inbuilt solar panel allowing the battery to charge through the day when the torch is positioned in a brightly lit spot. The torch additionally has a handle and internal dynamo to allow you to power the torch through winding / cranking the handle. These two eco-friendly power sources allow you to have the confidence that the torch will always have the power to light your way.

The torch uses 3 LED bulbs to produce a bright focused light while using very little energy. By winding the handle of the torch for 2 minutes you provide enough electricity to provide illumination for 15 minutes. The torch measures around 15cm (6 in) in length and is ideal as an emergency light source around the house, or stored in a car or bag. The solar panel allows you to store electricity in the battery for use when needed, though requires some forethought.

By remembering to place the torch in a brightly lit spot you ensure the torch has plenty of electricity stored to provide you with illumination when required. If that does not provide enough lighting time, or if you have forgotten to leave the torch somewhere to charge then simply turning the handle can light your way.

The DynaSolar Dual Powered Torch is yours for just £12.95 plus delivery.

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Book Light - Standing Up

The Solar-Powered Book Light gadget was sent to me to review by Useful Things who specialise in practical and inexpensive gadgets for the home, office and for traveling. Essentially the gadget is a compact LED light for reading your book at night, which charges up during the day via its solar panel.

The book light does feature a robust clip on the rear to allow it to be clipped to a page on a book. However, from using the gadget, it was hard to get the perfect angle with the bendable light when it was clipped on to the book. I found that it was much better when the light was free-standing on a nearby surface. What was surprising was how bright the light was, it really was bright enough to light up the entire page.

Book Light - Folded Up

I’ve not managed to run down the battery yet, and that’s using the light for an hour each night, and leaving the light in a bright place (but not direct sunlight). So the solar panel is clearly effective and perfectly suited for its application. The LED light is switched on my clicking the little button in the corner. The switch makes a good solid click when you press it, so you know you’ve switched it on properly.

The only small limitation with the solar-powered book light is that the bendable part of the light doesn’t stay in position as well as you might hope. It behaves a little more like plastic than it does metal, as in it bends itself back a little bit. Apart from that, it’s a very practical little light, and surprisingly effective given how little it costs. I definitely recommend the solar book light!

The Solar-Powered Book Light is available for just $11.95 plus shipping, which starts from $4.99. Thank you to Useful Things once again for allowing me to review the gadget.

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This portable radio by Re-Wind can be charged through both winding the handle, by solar power or through its USB cable to ensure you can always charge its battery. The radio also includes a bright LED light, and an alarm clock built into the system, it can additionally be used to charge certain other portable electronics through a charging cable.

By either winding the handle on the device or by placing the radio in sunlight you can charge the devices internal battery to provide you with electricity to run it.  The handle is located at the back of the device and is easily turned and the solar panel is located on the top of the device to help take advantage of any light about. You can easily see when the device is charging as it has a charging light indicator which turns red when it is receiving charge. If for any reason you can neither charge it by winding or by sunlight, the radio can be charged through a USB port on a computer or laptop through the USB cable provided.

The FM/AM radio also includes a clock which has an alarm function built in, perfect when you have taken the radio out and about. The device additionally has a built in LED torch, which has 3 LEDs to provide a bright directional beam of light when you require it without using much electricity.  Once the device is fully charged it can provide you with 9 hours of radio and clock use, or 6 hours of use as a torch. The radio measures 7.5cm x 50 cm x 5.5 cm (3 in x 19.7 in x 2.2 in) allowing it to be portable enough to travel with you wherever you need to go without the bulk of packing a radio, alarm and torch at once.

The Re-Wind Hand-Powered Portable Radio and Torch is available for £14.95 plus £2.35 shipping.

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The EyeMax is a multi-powered radio by Freeplay. This FM/AM radio can charge itself from both its solar panel and from a wind up handle. By having both methods it ensures you can listen to your radio shows at any time without any worry of running out of power and always from a eco-friendly source.

The EyeMax has a solar panel on the top of it as well as a wind up handle to allow you to self power the device for days where sun is lacking or for when you have forgotten to leave it in a sunny spot. This ensures you always have electrical power for your radio from a sustainable source. The radio can provide you with 35 minutes of play time from 30 seconds of winding the handle.  The radio has an LED indicator light to help guide you to the most efficient speed for winding the device. When fully charged the radio can provide you with 25 hours of play time.

Along with its function as a AM/FM radio the device also has a built in LED torch light, providing you with a bright light for a small amount of electrical drain when needed. The EyeMax radio measures 6 cm x 11.2 cm x 18.6 cm (2.6 in. x 4.4 in. x 7.3 in.) allowing it to be easily portable and suitable for traveling wherever you want to take it.

The EyeMax Wind Up Radio is available for just £35.99.

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The Solar LED Torch And Worklight has been designed by Proteam for use outdoors or in any outside building such as a shed or garage. The system is designed so the unit is left where needed to provide light, from either a fixed point or as a portable torch, while the solar panel is mounted on a wall or roof to take advantage of the maximum amount of sunlight/daylight.

The Solar LED Torch And Worklight comprises a compact amorphous solar cell measuring 11cm x 2.5cm x 15cm (4.3in x 1in x 5.9in) that is designed to be wall mounted (though may be placed onto a low area of roof of a shed), and a light/torch which comes with a charging bracket which is 6cm x 23.5cm (2.4in x 9.3in). The light has been designed to be used either in its charging bracket as a fixed light, or to be removed and used as a torch. To aid this the light has 10 LEDs positioned to provide a fixed light and a further 3 positioned for use as a conventional torch light.

The solar panel charges the 3  600mAh AAA  Ni-MH rechargeable batteries within the light when the light is in the charging bracket. If the light is being used as a torch you will need to remember to place it back into the charging bracket to guarantee the torch will provide you with light. When fully charged the light should provide you with 5 hours of lighting either from the fixed light or from the torch light.

The Solar LED Torch And Worklight also comes with 3 metres of cable to allow you to place the solar panel in an ideal spot for providing sufficient sunlight/daylight for charging while placing the charging bracket and light in a position required for ease of use. The light has a dim LED to illuminate the on/off switch to aid using the device in dark locations.

The Solar LED torch is available for £24.99 plus delivery.

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The Solar Powered LED Torch by Brando provides a way of powering a torch with solar energy without the solar panel being part of the torch. With the solar panels on the docking station the torch is a more conventional torch shape and its LED light produces a steady bright beam.

The Solar Powered Torch uses a single LED (Light Emitting Diode), this 0.5w light emits a bright beam while having a low energy consumption rate.  The torch comes with three 400 mAh AAA rechargeable batteries. The torch measures 13cm x 3.5cm x 3.5cm (5in x 1.4in x 1.4in) making it a compact torch good for inaccessible places and light for carrying. The docking station for the torch however is a little more bulky, the solar panel on it measures 4cm x 13.5cm (1.6in x 5.3in) meaning it makes the most of any light about.

The Solar Powered Torch’s docking station does need to be positioned somewhere in direct sunlight to charge the torch and the torch needs to be placed within the station. This does mean some forethought is needed to make sure you have a charged torch when you need it, but this should be simply done by always keeping the torch in the docking station when not in use. The docking station and torch are both portable but the docking station is a little inconvenient for transporting around much due to its bulk.

The solar torch is priced at $42.00 USD (about £26) from Brando.

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The Stingray Solar-Powered Pocket Torch is a compact, light and powerful LED torch. The double LED lights provide a bright output for this little torch. With a keychain built into the design the torch is easily attached to a keyring or bag to be with you when you need it.

The Solar-Powered Pocket Torch will provide 1 hour of lighting from being left to charge for 5 hours under direct sunlight. When it is fully charged it will produce 2 and a half hours of lighting. The LED lights should provide you with 50,000 hours of lighting life. The torch is certainly pocket sized measuring 6.6cm. x 3.8cm. x 1.4cm. (2.6in. x 1.5in. x 0.6in.) and with it weighing only 78g it adds little weight to a bag or key chain.

One issue with this torch would be its solar nature, unlike wind-up torches that you can power quickly before you need them this torch does require some forethought in placing it in direct sunlight to charge. Though once charged its rechargeable battery does seem to give a decent length of lighting time, compared to the often quickly fading wind up torches.

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