A little constructive criticism here.

When I'm surfing at work and I'm just glancing around for stuff that will catch my eye, I tend to skip over articles like this. First of all, the small pictures don't really shed much light for me on what the product or story is. Second, it seems it would be useful to have each numbered item begin with the product's name/description. Just my two cents.

I applaud the PoGo crank-powered remote, and it looks like it does have a wide compatibility for supported devices. But unfortunately, it doesn't have a learning function that many universal remotes are including these days. This enables the universal to pick up a command from a component's remote that might not have been added to the specs for that device in the universal, or to add a component that's not included in the supported device list. (This is a big factor for me, as I've got a lesser known brand LCD TV--Syntax Olevia.)

RE The remote: I don't know about you guys - but 2 AAs in my remote lasts a year or so... so I don't see where this is a big gain. Even then I could use rechargable batteries in it - which this thing has to have in it if it can store power for 7 days. The extra components built into this remote to make it have a built in charger probably costs more against the environment than the miniscule energy savings especially when rechargeables are used in a remote.

I just got number 6 (crank radio/charger) for my birthday (I live in an earthquake zone). Seems pretty slick.

I work at a sporting goods chain store in Washington/Oregon and we sell the Illuminator flashlight (sold under a couple of different generic brand names) and I can tell you we have a very hard time keeping it in stock. After Katrina, and to a lesser extent right before Christmas, people were coming in buying 5 to 10 at a time for gifts for friends and family for emergency kits. It's a shame that everybody plays up the "survival" aspect of RE instead of the energy saving aspect, but I'll take it. We also sell the Eton/Grundig radio, though it's not as big a seller. I bought one and love it. It's perfect for listening to Air America on AM.

Hopefully the companies that make these kinds of sustainable energy products will start designing them with easily replacable batteries. The ones in my wind-up/solar-powered radio died a while back (after a few years of very frequent use) and I have yet to be able to replace them because they are a weird size and need to be soldiered. I'm not exatly an electrophobe, but I've never had an opportunity to learn how to soldier batteries, so my awesome radio has been laying in a corner of a closet somewhere while I figure out what to do with the useless thing.

Now that I think of it, I don't even know if my dynamo-flashlight batteries are accessible...

If these products simply used common sizes and styles of rechargable batteries (I'll vote for AAs!), the products would be far more useful and efficient.

Love your headline. I'm a Stones fan myself. I also have four of those lights. Two on my bike, one in the kitchen, one in the tool box. Awsum.

Love your headline. I'm a Stones fan myself. I also have four of those lights. Two on my bike, one in the kitchen, one in the tool box. Awsum.