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Outdoor Lighting - Pack of 3 Solar Lights!

by max on May 29th, 2009
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Here’s an awesome deal of pack of 3 outdoor solar lights, all of these run on a single photovoltaic solar cell, great for keeping your outdoors bright without use of any household electricity but with solar power. These are great for continuous lighting through the night for a dark driveway or yard area. Be sure to position the multi-angle floodlight trio in direct sunlight through ...

Garden DIY - How to Make LED Grow Lights for your Plants!

by max on February 22nd, 2009
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Hopefully, you won’t be using this LED grow light to grow your illegal plants (or maybe legal depending on where you are and what licenses you have), but here’s a great way to keep your plants healthy full of artificial LED light by making LED grow lights! Specialized grow lights that closely mimic the sun’s rays are a better solution, but you can get the same effect with ...

Solar powered rechargeable batteries

by David Allen on February 18th, 2009
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This has to be one of the great ideas if only it can be made to work properly and at a price that is right. Unfortunately, this is still in the prototype stages but as you can see from the images, there is the potential there for a great device. The system has been named the SunCat and is the brainchild of designer Knut Karlsen. He uses a set of ordinary NiMH rechargeable batterie ...

WaterCone DIY - How to Make A Solar Powered Water Purifier!

by max on February 8th, 2009
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Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Check out this low-cost, highly-efficient, solar-powered water purifier called WaterCone! Make your own for your next outing in the desert, mountains, whereever. You pour the bad water into a black pan, and then you screw on a cone. The black pan absorbs sunlight and heats up the water. Then, the e ...

DIY Sun Seeking Plant Robot!

by max on October 17th, 2008
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Here’s a really cool DIY sun-seeking plant robot that will follow the sun so your tropical plant will always get the full sunlight even if you are working at the office. via neatorama, DIY Page ...

Solar Floating Ball emits Changing Colors at Night!

by max on June 25th, 2008
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Here’s a smart solar floating ball that emits changing colors at night. Government should invest in these and put them on the bayside waters such as under the Bay Bridge or Golden Gate Bridge to make use of the sunlight, providing nice glowing lights at night. Main Features: *Emitting rainbow color *Color changing automatically *Floating on water surface *Fixable by the hole at ...

MIT Students Develop Solar Dish Capable of 1000X Sun Power!

by max on June 22nd, 2008
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Here’s a cool solar dish that is capable of “vaporizing” water the second you hit the apex of its dish. The MIT students have already formed a corporation, there’s no telling when this will be available for homes and offices. The results are staggering — the completed mirror focuses enough solar energy at its focal point to melt solid steel. The energy ...

Solar Powered Glowing Flower Pot!

by max on June 22nd, 2008
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Wow, check out this awesome solar powered glowing flower pot that conserves the sun’s energy during the day and glow the pot itself at night. This might be useful at replacing those outdoor lights with a double-whammy pot/light. The length of time the pot glows is dependent on the amount of sunlight the solar panel is exposed to during the day, but in the UK you’re looking ...

DIY - How to Dry Your Cellphone with Rice!

by max on June 20th, 2008
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Well, I have dropped my cellphone in water bunch of times before and all I had to do was to let the phone dry for about a day or two to make it work again. If you dropped your phone in water, you might want to consider dipping it in a bowl of dry rice and the rice will absorb any water remaining in your cellphone. The most important thing to remember is to avoid heat. That means no ha ...

DIY - How to Make Heat Blocking Curtains!

by max on June 18th, 2008
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This one’s pretty much common sense but still a really good idea on how to make heat blocking curtains using insulated materials. To save electricity with our super expensive A/C, I constructed reflective curtains to block sunlight from warming our house. Think auto windshield. This is super simple and kind of obvious, but it works well. via instructables ...