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Solar Light That’s Also a Radio

Caimin — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 08:03:55 +0000

Presenting the Etón Microlink Self-Powered AM /FM / NOAA Weather Radio with Flashlight, Solar Power and Cell Phone Charger. Kind of a mouthful but an interesting solar gadget all the same.

With this little device you can not only charge your mobile phone and listen to the radio, you can also choose between solar charging or charging by using the hand crank – great for those days when there’s no enough sunlight for a full solar charge.

Portable Indoor Solar Lights That Go Anywhere

Caimin — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 07:41:24 +0000

As solar lights & lighting become more commonplace, so product designers are getting more innovative in the way they design solar lights.

Take Lucet Lamps designed by Rui Palma. These small solar lamps are actually three LED lights grouped together with a couple of rubber suckers attached to the base. You can position them wherever you like on a window and they’ll recharge their two AA batteries during the day and give out free solar powered light in the evening.

Just one catch – at the moment these solar lights are a concept design only.

How to make Portable Solar Garden Lights

Caimin — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 08:35:22 +0000

Here’s a quick tip to get a little more out of those inexpensive stake-style solar garden lights – the kind with a small solar panel and light on top of a stake that you drive in the garden earth or driveway.

Instead of putting the stake into the ground, put it into a plant pot filled with earth or stones. Now you’ve got a portable solar light – especially useful if you tend to get the most daylight in a different place in your garden, driveway or deck from where you want the solar light at night.

Even better, you can make each solar light look more decorative by using some colored stones inside the pot instead of plain stones or earth. Decorative stone cost more, so fill the pot with garden earth and just add a layer of decorative stones to the top.