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Finnish company Biolan specialises in ecological farming and green area management as well as environmental products. The Icelett is a dry toilet that does not require water, sewer, or a ventilation pipe, and is easy to install anywhere. The difference: the Icelett freezes your waste to -15 degrees Centigrade, which inhibits and stops the activity […]
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From the BBC comes a report on “e-textiles” that can provide clothes with a single, central power source to charge devices. Intelligent Textiles from Surrey UK has developed and is testing a lightweight uniform for the military that has conductive fibres woven into it. Rather than carrying seperate batteries for each device, a central battery can
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This post brought to you by Scotts®. All opinions are 100% mine. When Julie asked if I would like to review the Scotts® Snap® Spreader System and Snap-Pac fertilizer, I told her I would be glad to. I love having a nice yard to show off to everyone. Mowing is one of my favorite things to
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Remember when you were a kid and made your own slingshot with a forked branch, a big rubberband and some pebbles? It looks like William Hays of PocketPredator.com never grew out of that phase. He took his love of slingshots and has elevated it to the nth degree. William makes these wrist rockets out of a
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If you travel a lot, you’ll know that one of the biggest dilemmas is traveling light but still having enough clothes. In some locations, finding a laundry can be hard and expensive – or if you’re further afield, impossible to find. Australian inventor Ashley Newland has come up with the Scrubba Washbag, a possible solution
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I have to admit I’ve never tried water skiing, and I have my doubts if I could actually even stand up. The Subwing might actually be more my style though. The Subwing is made of fiberglass, rubber, and stainless steel, and with it, you can travel on the surface, skim the ocean bottom or just do
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For being (touted as) the most powerful handheld flashlight in the World, the first thought that went through my mind was how very unassuming the Wicked Lasers Torch is….from the packaging to the flashlight itself. According to Wicked Lasers, the Torch throws a massive 4100 lumens, many times more powerful than some of my brightest
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A reliable emergency radio radio is a great idea for anyone. Something that will work even if you forgot to replace the batteries and that can get the weather bands can literally be a lifesaver in an emergency. The Eton Corporation, in conjunction with the American Red Cross, offers several radios that fit this need.
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Anirudh Sharma, a student of Informatics Engineering at the Rajasthan Technical University, has designed Le Chal (Hindi for ‘Take Along”) to assist the blind and visually impaired to navigate around. By pairing Le Chal with an Android smartphone with GPS, the user can speak a destination into Google maps and then manoeuvre via Google’s navigation. Four small vibration motors
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I’ve been wearing Tevas for many years now (in fact one pair I’ve literally been wearing for many years), and nothing beats them for comfort and practicality in the outdoors. Mark Thatcher, inventor of the Teva sports sandal has just release the Sazzi footwear range. Based on the footwear worn by the Anasazi , ancestors
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This post brought to you by Scotts®. All opinions are 100% mine. Winter takes a toll on your landscaping. My own front yard is brown, patchy, and weedy. I love a beautiful lawn, but doing all the maintenance necessary to make it lush and green is messy work. Even if you have a spreader, you
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As the title mentions, the Eco Terra Boombox from Grace Digital is a floating IPX7-rated waterproof smartphone speaker case which is fully submersible in water. It’s powered by 4 C-cell batteries or the included AC adapter, and the two 3″ front-firing speakers are waterproof. There’s an internal waterproof compartment for your phone/MP3 player that’s big
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I’ve mentioned several times that the Piedmont area in North Carolina where I live has a lot of bad weather – tornadoes, thunderstorms, and hurricanes in the summer; ice storms and sometimes even tornadoes in the winter – that can leave us without power for days. No power means no lights and no telephone service
Being a decades-long runner and a bit AR, I am particular about the running shoes I use. Especially now that I am getting older, I want to keep my knees and ankles as strong and healthy as I can. As runners out there know, it all starts with your shoes. In the past year I
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Pyle is introducing a new item in their sports gear line – the Snorkeling Master Watch. This watch is water-resistant to 10 atmospheres (330 feet), and it has a selectable sea or lake diving setting. It measures your dive depth (up to 328 feet) with a resolution of 0.1 feet and water temperature (range of
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Sometimes you find the oddest things in the comments sections. In a review about an interchangeable blade multi-tool, someone mentioned the CRKT’s ID Flex tool. When I looked that tool up, I was reminded about a tool I have long been interested in – the CRKT Guppie, a multi-tool designed around an adjustable wrench instead
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The All Clear water bottle from Camelbak has a UV light in the cap that purifies water in 60 seconds. You simply fill the bottle from a stream, tap, or spigot, replace the cap and turn on the UV light, and you’ll have safe drinking water in 60 seconds. The All Clear utilizes proven UV
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Using only twigs, you can cook your food with this quick-lighting little camp stove. The CampStove from BioLite is only 8.25″ x 5″, weighs 2 pounds, and folds up for easy packing. When you get to the campsite, it burns twigs, pine cones, pellets, and other biomass, so you don’t have to carry heavy fuel
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ZunZun is a Dutch company that has a great idea. They make sun visor shades for computer laptops 10.5″ and 15.6″ and even GPS units. These shades are essentially flexible hoods that attach via elastic bands around your computer to shade the screen so you can see it and still type on your keyboard. For
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I really love things that allow me to use tech in relation to other things in my life, like my dog, Jack. Tom Bihn, a premier bag maker in Seattle, has a great specialty bag called the Citizen Canine which can help you keep all your “dog stuff” in one place.
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