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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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Orison Home Battery Works with Any Power Source

Mila Luleva — Thu, 28 Jan 2016 09:21:50 +0000

Orison home battery system takes up electricity from the grid during cheap off-peak hours and lets you use it when the demand (and price) is the highest. For many, home energy storage is associated with storage of rooftop solar power. Yes, there is a huge demand for systems that do not let generated electricity go to […]

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Keep Your Bike Safe with Stowaway Storage System

Mila Luleva — Thu, 10 Dec 2015 20:42:47 +0000

Stowaway bicycle storage system keeps your bike away from the street and from your corridor, making storing safer, easier and more convenient than ever. When it comes to traffic-jam-free, time-independent, healthy and green mode of transport, there is nothing that can beat the bicycle. After just a few weeks of daily biking, every person gets so […]

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Gi FlyBike, Foldable Electric Bicycle for Urban Commuters

Mila Luleva — Wed, 28 Oct 2015 06:40:06 +0000

Gi FlyBike is a sleek and shiny foldable electric bicycle, which can go for 40 miles before the battery needs recharging. Electric scooters are great for urban commuters, there is no doubt about it, but they are not always the best option. For starters, people, who commute by train for part of their journey to […]

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Olafur Eliasson is Kickstarting an Attractive Solar Phone Charger

Satya Sivani — Mon, 28 Sep 2015 09:46:53 +0000

Olafur Eliasson has designed a high-performance, portable solar phone charger-cum-light, which is very attractive – attractive in both design and affordability. The solar-powered phone charger namely ‘Little Sun Charge’, designed by Eliasson along with engineer Frederik Ottesen, has, till now, raised more than €232,000 funding, which is 5 times the creator’s funding goal on Kickstarter, while there still […]

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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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Daymak Photon Solar Scooter Plays Music And Charges Phones

Mila Luleva — Tue, 21 Jul 2015 12:06:00 +0000

Daymak Photon is a new generation folding, solar powered, electric kick scooter that can play your favorite music and can charge your phone. There are plenty of varieties to pick from when it comes to electric scooters– lighter, smaller, practical, sleeker, but most of them can do only the one job to take you from point […]

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Candle Charger: Back-up Power Using Just Beeswax

Mila Luleva — Wed, 15 Jul 2015 06:22:42 +0000

Candle Charger is the ultimate back-up power device, which brings that little bit of extra energy when all the others fail. Back up chargers are becoming increasingly popular as developments in electronic technologies make devices much more practical, useful and user-friendly. We have introduced quite a number of portable solar power chargers here- from foldable, to […]

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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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Blue Freedom – the Smallest Portable Hydropower Plant

Mila Luleva — Wed, 25 Mar 2015 11:24:23 +0000

A new tiny portable hydropower plant offers a super fast alternative to solar and kinetic energy powered back-up chargers. Back-up power devices have grown in popularity over the past few years, as the dependence on new smart phone and electronic technologies has increased rapidly. Everyone “needs” to be always connected and aware of what is […]

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Helix Folding Bike – World’s Smallest of Its Kind

Mila Luleva — Thu, 26 Feb 2015 14:14:36 +0000

Helix – the bike that folds to an incredibly small size, is here to rescue your daily commute. Daily commute can be quite a trouble if you want to stay green, especially when distance to final destination requires you to switch between different transport modes. There is a growing tendency among young people and first-time house […]

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Raht Racer, The Fastest Electric Three-Wheeler With Pedals

Mila Luleva — Tue, 24 Feb 2015 20:37:05 +0000

Raht Racer, the e-bike/e-car that moves with the speed of a car, but has pedals, might just be what you need to stay fit while going to work with greater comfort. This somewhat unusual three-wheeled Raht Racer is a hybrid between an electric car and an electric bicycle, which combines the best of both worlds. It is […]

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Sustainable Jewelry Made of Upcycled Weapons Supports Locals in Cambodia

Mila Luleva — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 10:02:03 +0000

Jewelry for girls is like pizza for guys. We all know nothing will happen if we don’t have it, yet we somehow cannot survive without it. Of course, there is always a way to turn an obsession into something good for the people and the environment. So here is the solution, for the guys- Skipchen, for […]

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Kickstarter-backed SmartCharge LED Bulb may be worth the investment

Danny Harper — Fri, 20 Dec 2013 15:43:39 +0000

The crowd-funding site, Kickstarter, is revolutionizing the way the common man can invest in new and emerging technology. One such highlight that is currently in its funding phase is the SmartCharge LED Bulb. Promoted as the first of its kind, the SmartCharge is an intelligent LED light bulb that works in a similar manner as […]

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Hydrobee Generates Clean Energy Anywhere Water Flows

Benji Jerew — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 18:38:08 +0000

There are millions of people in the world who have little to no access to energy of any kind, much less clean energy. Here in South America, the highlands of Perú specifically, I find it interesting that there are more people with mobile phones than with televisions. Communication is very important to these people, in […]

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Wind-Powered Bamboo Landmine Detonator Could Save Lives if Kickstarter Campaign is Successful

Leigh Hutchens — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 21:39:10 +0000

Each month, 42 people die because of landmines. These landmines are a major problem in 81 countries across the globe. It is common for the Bedouins in Egypt to lose limbs during routine desert crossings. To date, there is nearly no way to destroy these landmines without risking human life. Enter Massoud Hassani, the Afghan […]

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Micro Hybrid ELF is Solar and Human Powered

Benji Jerew — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 18:24:52 +0000

Crowdsourcing is going green with a new KickStarter project, and ELF has reached over 75% of its starting goal so far. The ELF is a three-wheel, single passenger vehicle with enough power in its 750 W motors to carry up to 350 pounds. This sounds like a great idea in areas where you might need […]

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