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Check out Ben Gracewood's ideas for ways to get your gadget fix while saving the planet at the same time.
Hotteeze Heat Pads
Price: Various (body pads are $24 for 10).
Product website
Rating: 4 / 5
Through the power of chemistry, these heat pads magically heat up
to 50 degrees when you open the packet. Stick them in your pockets
or in your shoes and you'll be toasty all day long. No batteries
required! Plus, once they've done the job, the contents are inert
and biodegradable. You can even use it as a soil conditioner.
Voltaic Generator Laptop Bag
Price: $799
Product website
Rating: 2 / 5
The Generator promises big things, but you need to check very
carefully if it is compatible with your laptop. It's perfectly fine
for charging all your phones and gadgets, but doesn't do such a
stellar job of charging laptops. It's a very well built bag
however.
TrickleStar TV TrickleSaver
Price: $149 (TBC)
Product website
Rating: 5 / 5
Kill power vampires with the TV TrickleSaver. All those devices
under your TV draw power, even when they appear to be turned off.
The TrickleSaver monitors your power point and will switch the
devices off when the TV is turned off, and back on again as soon as
it detects that the TV is on. Super simple, this device will pay
itself off in a few months if you have some big power vampires like
surround sound amps and video game consoles.
STIHL MS181CBE Chainsaw
Price: $745
Product website
Rating: 4 / 5
It might surprise you to hear that New Zealand doesn't have
emission standards for chainsaws and other small engines. Despite
this, STIHL are introducing ecologically sensitive chainsaws (not
an oxymoron), developed by their German designers. This one in
particular puts out 70% less emissions than previous models, and is
also user friendly with 30% less vibrations. So, go save the planet
while you cut down some trees!
