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Eco Gadgets: Ylight kinetically-powered flashlight makes tire changing fun

Anupam — Wed, 06 May 2009 07:32:41 +0000

Eco Factor: Flashlight powered by kinetic energy. Changing a flat tire is annoying and the problems escalate if you’ve to change it on a dark road devoid of any lighting facilities. Industrial designer Andre Moneiro has tried to solve some...

FlareStorm Radio: Human-powered energy on the roll

Naresh Chauhan — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 10:34:12 +0000

Product designer Luke Johnson thinks that he can use the design of something as common as a toy car, to develop a radio and a flashlight that can be powered by motion. The FlareStorm noticeably shifts both the visual and functional paradigms...

Eco Gadgets: FlareStorm - A Green radio powered by motion

Anupam — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:19:29 +0000

Eco Factor: Human-powered concept radio and flashlight. Most eco-friendly music players and radios carry either a solar charger which doesn’t work indoors or a hand crank that’s just too hard to use. Product designer Luke Johnson thinks...

10 insanely green ideas from bouncing boobs to urine power

Sameer Kumar — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:51:13 +0000

Here at Ecofriend we just love everything green and irrespective of where the innovation came from and how it has been presented, we try and tend to take the best positives out of it. This is not to say that shooting down those...