Finally the Hive by Jake Waitzman comes to make your iPhone4 more awesome than you’ve ever imagined. It can amplify iPhone’s onboard speaker in landscape or portrait orientation, requiring no electronics or other power resources. It also provides a clear 2X magnification of display when its Fresnel lens stands parallel to iPhone’s screen at a distance of 4 inches. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Get one Salt Water Fuel Cell Car Kit for your children and then let them know batteries are not the only thing to drive their toy cars to move. [Read the rest of this entry...]
In the nature there’re many eccentric plants like pitcher plants that live on small insects, and now there’s a weird clock that can get energy from flies and then creates electricity supply to keep it working. But in fact the clock also gets electricity energy from other apparatus, so it cannot be deemed as “an independent clock that works on itself.” [Read the rest of this entry...]
Street Flyer by Dr. Carsten Mehring seems more like an over-sized three-wheeler. But instead of sitting on the top, one is hanged beneath and moves his/her body to propel the vehicle. Even though the Street Flyer cannot compare with paragliders, it clearly offers a much safer trip of flying. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Whenever I get a receipt, a bill or something that concerns personal privacy, I’d always like to make them into pieces. Not with my hands, but with the Hand Paper Shredder. No need of battery or any power, the smart shredder can easily destroy your documents and then protect you from identity theft. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Though flax fiber is widely used for suits, have you ever thought of making a bike with the same material? Actually, the world’s first bike has already won EuroBike Gold Award. Built from biodegradable flax fibers, the bike is durable and lightweight, and it performs well at absorbing and dampening road vibrations. It’s also built with a battery-free lighting system that is powered by a dynamo in the front hub, making it a stylish and eco ride. [Read the rest of this entry...]
We people, especially the women, are used to taking all kinds of items in one big bag for emergency needs. But the actual situation is that, we seldom find the needed object quickly simply because the interior of the bag is too dark. So to solve that problem, Nicole Osella has come up with an innovative bag light named as “Bulbo”, which utilizes LED bulbs to illuminate the bag. It features an ergonomic structure and therefore can be used in any type of bags. The metal ball outside the bag is used to create kinetic energy to charge the battery that powers the LED bulbs. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Surely you still remember Theo Jansen and his Strandbeest, right? Here is another kinetic sculpture from the talented Dutch artist: a wind-powered walking sculpture that resembles an animal. In the video below, you’ll see how the huge creature lives and walks on the beaches. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Here’s one of the products that makes me feel excited all day long…It is the Twist Espresso Maker, an innovative device that features both an easy transportation and a convenient usage. Powered by the standard recyclable N2O cartridges built in, the smart design allows the users to easily make coffee anywhere— simply put the coffee grounds and hot water in, switch the device on, and then you can enjoy a cup of tasty coffee. The only drawback that I noticed is the time taken to make enough coffee for more than three people because the device only offers limited quantity every time. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Though it’s just an innovative concept from Kim Hyun Joong, Movie Polaroid Camera also presents a good prospect of filming equipments in the future. It is an attractive camera that could print movies on a substrate that mimics traditional Polaroid film paper, using the built-in movie printer. The compact size of the movie films also means an easy transportation, enabling the users to take them everywhere in the wallets or pockets. Though having no power buttons, the Movie Polaroid Camera could be easily charged by giving it some shakes, and that’s also used to juice up the films for viewing. [Read the rest of this entry...]
The Boogie Board LCD Tablet may be the best replacement of paper and pen for your usual writing. It features a Reflex LCD screen (a pressure-sensitive and flexible plastic) to display images or words you’ve written on its surface with a pen, a stick or your fingers. Though claimed needing no power to activate the screen, the device still requires a small watch battery to erase the screen. [Read the rest of this entry...]
One night, you were reading a favorite book, coming to a climax of the story, and then, the lamp went off…the electricity had just failed. Oh, bad luck. Of course you can continue to read with a flashlight, but look at what I am using, an 8 LED RJ11 Lamp! It is powered by a RJ11 socket, or a garden-variety telephone socket, but never a regular power point. Now available and it costs only 4.69 dollars. A great deal! [Read the rest of this entry...]
No camera aperture, no display or various buttons, the gadget even couldn’t be seen as a camera if it’s not equipped with a shutter and lens. However, since you never know what is actually captured, you may capture something ‘real’ in this way. It still needs a good shake to generate enough power as it doesn’t have any charging equipment.
Though some day-to-day activities, say the movements to pull toilet paper, are insignificant, have you ever realized that you’re generating electricity? Obviously Miguel Melgarejo has noticed that and creates the Self-powered Toilet Roll Holder. Powered by the energy collected during the movement of the roll, the toilet roll holder is also an emergency lamp for indoors and outdoors.
No batteries, no sockets, the unique radio is in fact a shower radio powered by water. When plugging it between the tap and the shower, the radio then starts working while stops playing as you press the button. So isn’t it an efficient gadget that makes full uses of the limited water even in a bathroom? Cool!
