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Solar-Powered Digital Window Thermometer

Merry Christmas everyone! So, how’s your Christmas Eve? Was it a blast? Or was it simple just like the past years? Oh well, whatever it is, I’m sure you’re looking forward to another great Christmas day. So, what’s the plan for today? No concrete ideas in mind? Oh come on, you can always go out and have some fun! What’s stopping you? Is it the weather? Oh, I see. Maybe you’re thinking that it must be so cold outside. But how will you know if you don’t go out now? If you just have this Solar-Powered Digital Window Thermometer, you’ll know the temperature in an instant.

So, what’s with this solar-powered thermometer? Its main feature actually lies on its solar panel, charging itself during daytime, so you’ll know the current outdoor temperature without the need to go out of your house. But aside from that, it also displays the minimum and maximum temperatures of the day. Just stick it to the outside of your window, move those curtains to the side, and voila! No need to wait for the weather advisory online or on TV just to know the temperature outdoors. All you need is this eco-friendly thermometer.

Now you might wonder what it’s made of. Would you believe that it’s from durable recycled plastic? Yes, that’s true! So, no worries that it’s going to break when exposed to too much sunlight. And when you want to clean it, all you need to do is detach it from the window and wipe it clean with a cloth.

So, do you already know now what’s the temperature outside? Maybe you’ll do right after reading this article and stepping outside of your home. So the next time around, make sure you have this Solar Digital Window Thermometer. It’s available at Amazon.com for only $19.95. Buy one now!

Regen ReVerb Solar-Powered iPod Dock

Fancy something a little different to dock your iPod or iPhone with? iPod docks are dime a dozen, but how many of them are actually green and good for the environment? The Reverb solar-powered iPod dock from Regen is one of them, where it is capable of offering up to a dozen hours of continuous playback on a full charge. If you thought that Regen’s Renu is one impressive solar powered iPod dock, the Regen ReVerb is all the more. ReVerbOnce placed in sunlight, the photovoltaic panel on the ReVerb will begin gathering light and storing power in its Lithium Iron Phosphate battery. When charged, the ReVerb can provide up to 12 hours of high quality audio reproduction of the media files stored on an iPhone, iPod or any media player with a headphone jack and can run for a longer period of time when used in solar/electric hybrid mode.

Designed to provide brilliant acoustic output that sounds flawless, the ReVerb has a friendly user interface that provides feedback on the amount of power remaining in its battery, how much energy has been gathered over time and how satisfied it is with the user’s power generation and consumption habits. It is three feet tall and does 60 watts worth of power.

Specifications of the ReVerb at a glance:

• Operating temperature: 0-60º C
• Non operating temperature: 20-90º C
• Recommended humidity: Will operate at 95% RH
• Apple 30 pin connector
• USB mini B socket: (power and data) allows ReVerb to be charged from the wall or another USB power supply (like a laptop).
• 2 USB A sockets (power only) allows up to 1.5A charging at 5V
• Headphone: 3.5 TRS Connector
• Audio input: 3.5 TRS Connector

The ReVerb will be available April next year for a $2,299.

Turn Night to Day with Solar Powered 15 LED Security Light and Motion Detector

Saving electricity is saving the planet. Even simple measures like using solar power to take care of your security light will go along way in helping to fight global warming and climate change. One implementation of such measure is using the Solar Powered 15 LED Security Light and Motion Detector. This device is a convenient light with a built-in motion sensor that uses stored solar energy to light up your lawn, backyard and walkway.
LED security light and motion detector
The motion detector has great features as it serves two purposes; first for added security as it will turn on the light when movement is detected. Second, think of it as an automatic switch – saving more energy and using turning on only when needed. Say for instance you are getting some midnight stride at your backyard. The detachable solar panel is attached to a 16 feet cord, enough for the LED light to be installed even indoors like garages, garden sheds and even the house interior.

The device can be easily assembled and installed, thanks to the solar panels and durable LED lights. You don’t need to go around the hassle of electrical installation, battery change and even bulb maintenance.

The security light has the following further technical details:

• 15 super bright LEDs
• Bulb brightness: 12,000 mcd
• Motion sensor passive infrared 100
• 3.6V 800 maH Ni-MH battery good for 2-3 years
• UV protected housing
• House, pole and roof mounting options

If you are interested to learn more about Security Sensor LED Light and other cool gadgets, feel free to click on this link.

Orange Unveils Solar Concept Tent – The Tent of the Future

solar concept tent

Orange has unveiled a concept solar tent in conjunction with the opening of this year’s Glastonbury music festival in the U.K. The goal of Kaleidoscope, the design firm working with Orange, was to create a tent that would help participants of Glastonbury, the U.K.’s famous open-field music festival, which is sponsored in part by Orange, with their communication and power supply needs.

So inspired by the new flexible photovoltaics in development, the tent – if produced for consumers, would be covered in a semi-photovoltaic fabric woven with both coated solar threads and conventional threads to form a solar shell that could be adjusted to face optimum sun throughout the day. The solar energy would then be channelled into four main power uses: heating, lighting, communications, and recharging.

It would be fitted with “glo-cation” technology that will enable campers’ mobile phones to identify their tent using either an SMS message or automatic active RFID technology; both would trigger a distinctive glow in the tent helping identify it from a distance. At the heart of the Concept Tent is a wireless control hub displaying energy generated and consumed, and giving a wireless internet signal.

If that’s not enough, the concept also contains an internal heating element embedded in the groundsheet to keep campers warm at night. But unfortunately, it may take some time before the tent will be on sale as photovoltaic fabric has never been used actually.

Here, you can also find a selection of tents.

Dan Roe’s Solar-Powered Trilobot

Most robots today are used to do repetitive actions or jobs considered too dangerous for humans. They can explore inside gas tanks, volcanoes, Mars and other places too unsafe for humans to go. They never get sick, don’t need to take a day off, and they don’t ever complain. They can do one thing over and over again without getting bored – is that something you could do? Think about it – standing in one place doing the same thing all day and night would get pretty boring.

And now, here’s something that pays tribute to life forms from the olden days – the Trilobot that is solar-powered and fully autonomous, being smart to search out for its own juice to make sure the no human master will ever need to place it under sunlight whenever it “dies” when hiding under a couch for too long a period of time.

trilobot

Designed by Dan Roe as a “kinetic art” project, this minimally designed sculptural robot is autonomous in control since its compound eyes differentially control rostral and caudal legs a weak phototropism, while its sensitive motors respond unpredictably to one another and to the surface that are moving over. This sculpture is designed with open source circuits and off the shelf technologies, including o-rings and hose clamps. Made of steel including its solar engine, it measures 10” x 7-1/2” x 3-1/2”.