Tag: Human-Powered - Page 3
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Gotwind and Orange Launch Human Powered Mobile Phone Charger
The Glastonbury Music Festival will have something new from Gotwind and Orange this year. In the past they've set up cool solar and wind charging stations for mobile phones. But this time, charging up will be thanks to human power.
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How To: Turn a Hand-Cranked Flashlight Into a Battery Charger (Video)
I normally post on more weighty issues than turning a hand-cranked flashlight into a battery charger for your portable electronic devices, but I somehow came across this video yesterday
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Chinese Exercise Balls That Kinetically Charge Your Batteries
Inspired by Chinese baoding balls, Shanghai designer Jiang Qian has created a kinetic charger concept that juices up your batteries all while fixing that pesky carpal tunnel.
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Rollerblade Man's Entire Body Covered in Wheels: Kama Sutra Positions at 60 MPH (Video)
We're big advocates for all things human-powered, but we really really like to see this particular efficiency put to use for transportation. Enter with a flash "Rollerblade Man" who's keeping all his options open by
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Pee Power! Recycling Urine to Powder Makes Superior Fertilizer
"Night soil" has for centuries been the fertilizer of choice for healthy gardens, and at TreeHugger we've tried all the bad puns there are when writing about the art of utilizing urine
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Check Out the Aeolus Airship: Human-Powered Blimp Can Stay Aloft for Two Weeks
Setting the bar pretty high for airship design is this one from Christopher Ottersbach: Called the Aeolus Airship (named after Aeolus, the Greek wind god) it is designed to be aerodynamic than conventional airship designs, and stay aloft for up to two
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CES 2009: Solar Powered Emergency Radio
This little renewably powered radio caught my eye. Called the Voyager, it's a cool device for emergencies, and uses both hand crank and solar for charging.
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Swedes Conclude: Girls' Bikes Safer for Street and Older Folks' Riding Joy
Leave it to the research-crazy Swedes to do a careful 10-year review study on the cycling habits (and accidents) of seniors. No joke!
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More Gyms Are Tapping into Pedaling for Power...and also for Profit
It is now officially a trend. While human-generated energy has previously been mostly limited to one-off solutions rigged together by inventive tinkerers, at least four gyms globally have now
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Pedal-Per-Minute With Bike-Powered Cell Phone Charger
OK, so this isn’t break-through technology. But it does show the increasing availability of convenient alternative energy for charging gadgets.
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Some Gadgets Were Perfect 2,000 Years Ago
This just proves that we don't necessarily have to use toxic substances and electronic bits-n-pieces to have a really cool gadget that tracks global happenings.
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Human-Solar Powered Hybrid Electric Car Unveiled in California
It may not be the prettiest thing on the road but this pedal/battery/solar powered vehicle is pretty interesting. I admit I was skeptical at first, thinking that this thing sits in a no-mans land between a true automobile, a bicycle, and an
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Freeplay Foundation Brings Light to Rwanda
Freeplay Energy has been developing some great consumer products over the years, such as the Lifeline Radio, Jonta "human-powered" Flashlight, and the Indigo Lead Lantern. But there is an offshoot of Freeplay we
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Ed Begley, Jr. on Saving Energy, Saving Money, and Looking Up
Photo credit: Ed Begley, Jr./LOOK UP Ed Begley, Jr. is a busy guy. Between his show Living with Ed on Planet Green, his other acting gigs -- you've seen him in movies like "Best in Show" and "A Mighty Wind", in guest spots on "Arrested Development," and
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Sanyo's Pedometer Charges With Each Step
With all the talk of kinetic energy generators, it's nice to see the idea getting some practical application. Leaving behind the lofty goal of trying to charge every gadget you own through movement, Sanyo is looking to make a device that
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7 Overrated Technologies and Their Underrated Low-Tech Alternatives
Technology rocks, and improving upon what we have is a boon for fighting climate change in a lot of ways. But sometimes green gadgets get more attention than the totally effective non-tech solutions to problems in our lives,
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Human Powered Vending Machine Coming to Times Square
Finally, a purpose for mimes: lock them in a glass box and turn them into a human vending machine. Alas, it is not completely human powered. Uniqlo tells New York Magazine:
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Book Review: Causewired - Plugging In, Getting Involved, Changing the World
You're here on TreeHugger, so you likely feel a connection between being online and being active in social change. That connection - using the internet as a means of doing good for the world - is quickly spreading
