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Fruit Powered Clock
Digital timekeeping with no batteries but either a lemon, orange, apple or any other fresh fruit which comes to hand. Apart from looking impressive, this is a good chance to explain to any youngsters some basic scientific principles. The fruit-powered clock basically replicates the first ‘experiment’ which eventually gave rise to the electrical storage battery. The hidden secret is copper and zinc components – and the acid in the fruit. The clock retails at £10.95 from Ecotopia.
Fruit powered clock


Eco friendly espresso machine is operated manually
Electricity-Free Espresso Machine
This award-winning, stylish machine produces the pressure needed to make café-style coffee at home, manually. After putting your favourite coffee in the steel filter, you pour boiling water into the heat proof cylinder at the top. Then you lift the lever arms, place your coffee cup into position and lower the arms, trapping air and forcing water through the coffee at high pressure into your waiting cup. ‘Presso’ is made from solid, polished aluminium. It is available from ecoutlet at £64.99.

Eco Kettle
If you do need to electrically boil water (for your coffee machine or anything else) then this clever kettle takes the guesswork and hassle out of only boiling as much as you need. This is important when you consider 67% of UK householders habitually boil more water than is needed in the kettle says the Energy Savings Trust.
Eco friendly kettle

The Eco Kettle looks just like a stylish electric jug kettle in appearance but it has a special feature that allows you to fill the kettle to its maximum 1.5 litres, yet only boil one to eight cups according to your needs.

An internal reservoir holds all the water, while at the touch of a button you can release whatever quantity, from a single cupful to the lot, needed into a separate boiling chamber. You can get one from various outlets, but the cheapest we found was from the World Wildlife Fund at £29.99.


Check out two more cool gadgets that are kind to the environment >>

Grand Designs suffolk house, from the channel 4 show grand designs fronted by kevin mccloud Building a Better Future
How to build a house with green credentials
Brighton's Jubilee Library, designed by architects Lomax, Cassidy and Edwards and very low energy Best of British
The most stunning eco buildings the UK has to offer

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