AeroGarden: A Pocket Garden Gadget

 

Ever imagined an indoor garden that stands on a counter or a slab and virtually farms acres of herbs and places nature in your obverse!!! With AeroGarden gadget its no more a dream now.

The AeroGarden (on Amazon UK or on Amazon US) is a miniature setup for tiny foliage like beans, coriander, cherry chillies, lettuce, etc. In short an energy resourceful nature now inside home or even office!

AeroGarden Kit Contents:

• pre-seeded growth medium
• fertilizer, the seeds will require
• two daylight-spectrum bulbs
• grow pod

AreoGarden Concept

According to the principle that works behind AeroGarden, the plants initiate growing activity within 24 hours and grow 5 times sooner in comparison to usual soil.

The AeroGarden system regulates the best possible growing conditions by scrutinizing itself and alerts one when the plants need nutrients or watering. It’s so simple that anyone even without prior gardening experience too can use and lush green backyard right into their drawing room. The automated AeroGarden gadget informs when to put in water and nutrients. It also supports a built-in micro-processor which involuntarily regulate water flow and nutrient delivery it requires and switches on and off the grow lights on its own to replicate the sun.

No matter what is the weather outside and despite outdoor conditions, throughout the year fresh herbs and salad fruits can be cultivated. It is because of the reason that aero garden gadget by design according the type of the plant optimizes the light and dark growing cycle. This hassle free gadget not even demands 10 minutes of your consideration even in a month.

The only shortcoming only con is the shorter life of the bulbs, about six months. And the pump can be a bit noisy.

The AeroPonics AeroGarden is available for sale on Amazon UK and Amazon US including a FREE Gourmet Herb Kit, which means no more missing summers and autumn seasons to pick your favourite vegetables from the kitchen garden when your backyard is right in front of you!

Available: Amazon

Price: $29.95

Panasonic Eco-Lamp

 

What a bright idea? Sorry I could help it. Today’s Eco friendly gadget is the recently launched energy efficient light called the “Auto-eco Light-control Twin Pa”.  To the naked eye it looks like any other round ceiling light, however on closer inspection this light comes with built in sensors controlled by a microprocessor that can alter the lights luminance.

The advantage this has over conventional home lighting is that it can help reduce energy costs by reducing the amount of light when there is no need for it. Claims by the company of up to 60% less power is need which is a considerable saving when placed in multiple locations.

There are three brightness settings to the light, i.e. 100%, 70%” or 50%. When the light is switched on the settings the user has selected is monitored by the sensor every second and the light emitted from the bulb is maintained by regularly dimming or brightening which goes unnoticed by the user.

There are two models of the lamps, the “HHFZ4320″ (89W) and the “HHFZ4220″ (74W) which is expected to be priced at $387 and $354 respectively.

RobotiKits

 

Eco-friendly gadgets are popping up everywhere these days and this product, the RobotiKits is another gadget making good use of solar energy technology. The RobotiKit is a toy designed for children between grades 3 and 8 of school. Featuring a very simple assembly process, the RobotiKit is very useful in teaching solar powered technology to children as they require no batteries. Each toy has an incorporated solar panel or solar cell positioned at the top of the toy.

Included in the RobotiKit

• Solar Powered Racing Car = Composed of 11 parts. The car speeds off when exposed to light.
• Solar Powered Grasshopper – Composed of 7 parts. In the presence of light the grasshopper’s eyes jiggle, legs wiggle, and antennas sway to-and-fro.
• Solar Powered Frog – Composed of 26 parts. The frog will start jumping as soon as light falls on it.

 

Motion-Powered TV Remote Control

 

Our final Eco-friendly gadget of the day is this motion powered TV remote control by a group of designers (Lee Sung Hoon, Kang Sooyeon, Cho Eun Bee, Lee Junehwa and Kim Jean). The battery free TV remote or Shake Control as its being called is a device which takes advantage of motion technology to supply electricity required for changing channels. Specifically, the energy is generated when a mobile magnet within the TV remote passes a coil generating the energy required to power the remote.

The concept behind the Shake Control is to reduce the need for batteries not just for TV remotes, but for any small device used frequently that only requires a small amount of energy which can be provided by motion.

Motion Powered TV Remote Features

• Battery less design
• Comfortable ergonomic design
• Robust and reliable structure
• Infrared light transmits signal several meters away
• This is one Eco-friendly gadgets I can see myself buying if its released

AeroGarden AeroPonics Accelerated Indoor Garden

 

Available from Amazon, the Aeroponics Accelerated Indoor Garden kit allows you to easily cultivate plants in your own home. Users have seen good results with herb gardens and vegetables such as lettuce, tomatoes, and peppers doing well. Included with the kit is pre-seeded growth medium, fertilizer, 2 x bulbs, and the grow pod itself. Claims of accelerated growth up to five times faster in the Aerogarden when compared to plants cultivated in normal outside conditions have been observed.

The AeroGarden Accelerated Indoor Garden is self sustaining in that it can monitor the environmental conditions (alter light exposure) for maximum growth. The Aerogarden indicates when your plants required nutrients and water therefore allowing you to grow fresh herbs and salads all year round regardless of weather conditions.

Check out the AeroGarden Accelerated Indoor Garden in action

AeroGarden Accelerated Indoor Garden Features

• Color: Black
• The original indoor garden
• Everything you need to grow now
• Easy, foolproof and 100% guaranteed
• No dirt, no mess, no green thumb required
• Over 400,000 satisfied AeroGardeners

Available: Amazon

Price: $89.95