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Ettore- affordable, electric, folding bike on Kickstarter

Mila Luleva — Mon, 19 Sep 2016 19:16:14 +0000

Ettore hits Kickstarter as the first affordable, fully electric, folding bike. Commuting is not an easy business. Changing between different modes of transport is not only exhausting and unpleasant, but it can also be quite costly. Bicycles are usually a nice alternative to, let’s say, the buses from and to the first and final train stations. […]

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Bioo Pot Charges Your Phone with Plant Energy

Mila Luleva — Tue, 26 Apr 2016 15:35:49 +0000

Bioo plant pot is a revolutionary technology, which uses the energy from a living plant in a pot to charge your mobile device. The market is currently flooded with small portable chargers that provide renewable energy, most often solar. The amount of electricity they generate is sufficient to power electronic devices in case of emergency […]

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H2 Energy Offers Affordable Hydrogen Generator For Home Use

Mila Luleva — Fri, 01 Apr 2016 11:58:25 +0000

Low-cost hydrogen generator from H2 Energy Renaissance is coming soon to wipe out fossil fuels. It is truly remarkable how clean energy technologies and inventions that seemed like taken from a Sci-Fi movie just 10 years ago, are now on the market and within everyone’s reach. Developments happen fast, with better and more powerful technologies appearing […]

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Bakey’s Edible Cutlery Could Reduce Plastic Waste

Mila Luleva — Tue, 29 Mar 2016 19:18:31 +0000

New type of edible cutlery can put an end to careless disposal of plastic spoons and chop sticks. Plastic pollution is an enormous problem, which continues to pick up speed. In many countries around the world awareness is being raised, plastic recycling is being stimulated, yet the amounts of plastic waste that end up in […]

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Qube: The Cheap Smart LED Lightbulb You’ve Been Waiting For

Mila Luleva — Mon, 14 Dec 2015 20:09:03 +0000

The Qube smart LED bulb is fully controlled via Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, it provides light in millions of colors, and it comes at a super affordable price. Everything is “smart” these days- homes, phones, gadgets, you name it. Technology is advancing so fast, that even our own minds cannot keep up. But, as fast as […]

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“HomeBiogas” Makes Fertilizer and Cooking Gas

Mila Luleva — Wed, 25 Nov 2015 19:22:57 +0000

This compact biogas unit, developed by a promising Israeli startup, can turn your organic waste into both garden fertilizer and cooking gas. If your household generates large quantities of organic waste, but not enough to make you follow our tutorial on how to build your own biogas plant, this new invention might be the right […]

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Trinity – The New Generation Portable Micro-Turbine from Janulus

Mila Luleva — Wed, 23 Sep 2015 20:48:14 +0000

New and improved portable micro wind turbine from Janulus now comes in four sizes, ready to meet your every renewable energy need. Last year, a team of two enthusiastic brothers, founders of the company Janulus- Einar and Agust Agustsson, introduced their project Trinity on Kickstarter. They showed their humble portable vertical wind turbine, which was sleek, […]

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Badger – World’s Toughest Waterproof Solar Charger

Mila Luleva — Wed, 13 May 2015 15:18:25 +0000

The Badger is the waterproof solar charger from Brown Dog Gadgets, which delivers every single time, even when it is raining. When it comes to solar chargers, the options are many. Depending on what you need, when you need it, and how much you are willing to invest in it, there is a very high […]

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GoSun, a Solar Grill That Cooks Even On Cloudy Days

Mila Luleva — Mon, 04 May 2015 10:49:44 +0000

GoSun, a solar cooker that keeps grilling, baking and boiling even on a rainy day, is storming through its Kickstarter campaign. Cooking stoves, electric ovens, gas grills, barbeques, even outdoor coal grills, all have their limitations. For starters, everything electric consumes quite a lot of energy in order to cook you a pleasant meal, and even […]

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PLAYBULB Smart Garden Lights Rock on Kickstarter

Mila Luleva — Wed, 11 Mar 2015 15:53:34 +0000

The Smart Color LED Solar Garden Light project is revolutionizing Kickstarter. The solar-powered PLAYBULB garden has exceeded their goal ten times, with just over two weeks still left. Here it is. The technology, which promises to bring up the spirit of your garden by giving you a light-show performance every evening. Meet PLAYBULB garden- the […]

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Highly-Efficient and Cheap Solar Technology Challenges Fossils Prices

Mila Luleva — Tue, 30 Dec 2014 10:09:54 +0000

An American solar panel manufacturer claims to have found what was missing in solar technology. They developed the cheapest and most efficient panels made with minimal amounts of silicon, yet still performing with record braking efficiency. The incredible technology is a product of Rayton Solar, who promise to deliver solar PV that can put fossils […]

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Egloo Heats Up Your Room With Just Candles

Mila Luleva — Tue, 16 Dec 2014 11:31:42 +0000

The Egloo project, which offers candle heating for 10 cents a day, could slim the fat bill that will slip through the mail box at the end of the winter. You most probably know our two superb posts “how to heat up your room with just a candle” and “how to generate free heat“. These […]

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Bio-Electric Hybrid Aircraft Needs Support on Kickstarter

Mila Luleva — Fri, 28 Nov 2014 11:06:55 +0000

Let’s all combine forces to help the world’s first ever hybrid eco-friendly aircraft become a reality. A team of UK engineers hope to raise enough money through crowdfunding, in order to develop their near-silent, non-polluting, bio-electric triplane. The Bio-Electric-Hybrid-Aircraft (BEHA) is a creation of a team from the engineering university at Cranfield, UK, and […]

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Cheap Portable 3D Printed Wind Turbine Generates Clean Electricity and Saves Lives

Mila Luleva — Mon, 18 Aug 2014 10:38:25 +0000

Only a few months after the great success of Windpax, the portable wind turbine that managed to raise almost double the amount that the inventors initially asked with their Kickstarter campaign, the competition from other teams has already started. A new mobile wind turbine, called AirEnergy 3D, is already gathering supporters simply by being much […]

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Terra Motors’ Electric Three-Wheeler Tuk Tuk Seeks Investors on Indiegogo

Mila Luleva — Tue, 22 Oct 2013 18:42:32 +0000

One thing that everyone, who has visited any part of Southeast Asia, remembers is the Tuk Tuk. This incredible mode of transportation in the busy Asian cities is not only extremely convenient but it has become some sort of a trade mark and a main tourist attraction. However, these run on gasoline, and knowing how […]

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