Still stuck for that idea of a last minute environmentally friend gift. A Solar Powered Digital window thermometer could just be ideal to help you decide what to wear in the mornings. No installation here, the digital thermometer just sticks on your window and happily juices itself up from the sunlight. While the sun shines it might not always be [...]

Keep your food crops safer with another self powered solar gadget the bird repeller. Spring is just around the corner and any respectful gardener is thinking about planting next years crops. Keeping those seedlings safe is not an easy task and the sweetness of those juicy leaves poking through the soil is just honey to some birds. Taking scarecrows into [...]

E-book readers have given a step up to the dying art of book reading. By removing the need for forest to be cut down and pulped in to paper, the E-book has already put one foot forward towards being environmentally friendly. LG Displays has proceeded with taking another step in their announcement of the solar powered E-book reader prototype. With [...]

NTT Docomo has recently announced the development of its latest mobile phone. A solar Hybrid phone that will go on sale in Japan around September 2009. The solar hybrid as well as being able to charge like recharge like any regular phone has a built in solar panel that will enable one minute of talk time for every ten minutes [...]

The Sunnan LED desk lamp, from IKEA, is something worth considering. Both for its innovative solar design that helps up save our environment but for also the added bonus from IKEA called the SUNNAN LAMP CAMPAIGN. For Every Sunnan Lamp sold by IKEA, they will donate  a similar lamp to UNICEF, the United Nations Childrens Education Fund. The fist set of [...]

Solar powered Barn. Architects Gray Organschi of Connecticut have designed and built and ecological barn that utilizes renewable energy. The scrap lumber barn has solar panels installed on that roof for lighting and ground source heat pumps that heat the building using geo-thermal energy. This off-grid bard was constructed with raw materials in the erection and with a manner that [...]

Now this is just what everybody needs in their quest to protect our environment. Wuhan Welhel Photoelectric, a company in China, has just launched a solar powered welding helmet. The electronic shield darkens automatically when exposed to the arc of welding and running on a full charge can operate for 5,000 hours. The time delay and shade are fully adjustable [...]

Solar Bird House Birds need their comforts too. This little solar oddity, designed by Studio Oooms in the Netherlands, was designed for our little garden friends. It works no different from energy saving solar set-ups. Mounted on the roof is a small solar panel which, during the day, tops up a small rechargeable battery built in to the box. When [...]