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Heating bills can cause quite a big hit in your monthly expenses, depending on which country that you live in, but this does not mean that you should go freeze yourself to death during winter by being a miser, right? After all, a man’s got to do what a man’s got to do, and that would include making sure that his family has the bare necessities for survival, including a roof over their head as well as three square meals. The thing is, if you have already made it in life and happen to own a home with a swimming pool, why not add something nice into the equation? Most public pools come with a shower outside for you to wash yourself down before you jump in, as well as help you get acclimatized to the water temperature. Why not go green with the $199.99 Solar Shower?

The Solar Shower is extremely cost effective and a snap to set up, where it will then be able to provide cold, warm or hot showers without causing another dent in your wallet. After all, the heating is done by the sun itself. All that you need to do is to mount the Solar Shower on a wall, make use of the included free-standing base, and you’re good to go. It will hook up to a standard garden hose, which means it should not be too difficult to find a place for it in your garden. The large column fills will take around 2 minutes to fill up with water, and it takes approximately an hour to heat up, depending on weather conditions, to deliver a water temperature of up to 130°F (55°C).
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There is nothing quite like relying on nature to provide us with nourishment and sustenance – after all, that has been the way for far too long, and even until now, mankind continues to take what is free and turn it into a profit-making enterprise. Well, you might want to do your bit to help ease the consumption of power from the grid by relying on the power of the sun, using the £49.99 Port Solar Charger in your household, charging up those energy thirsty devices while you are on the move.

For instance, there is an integrated suction cup that allows you to stick it to any window, and it will connect to any other compatible device thanks to an integrated USB port. The Port Solar Charger is extremely light in nature and would be able to fit into just about any pocket easily, making this the ideal device to carry around on your travels. The Port Solar Charger comes with a 1,000 mAh battery that delivers an additional 65% charge to mobiles. If you’re going to travel outdoors this coming summer for long periods of time, I would like to think that the Port Solar Charger is an indispensable piece of equipment to own.
[ Port Solar Charger helps you juice up naturally copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]

I am not quite sure about you, but when it comes to hunting down a particular house on a street at night, it always helps if the streetlamps there actually work. Not only that, it would also go a long way for guests who are trying to locate your house for the first time to see the numbers on your house properly. The mailbox should feature your house number, but over the years, the numbers might have faded or are covered by extra growth from the creepers and other trees. Why not make life easier for everyone, all the while adding some aesthetic value to your home, with the $119.95 Solar Illuminated Address Mailbox?

The Solar Illuminated Address Mailbox happens to be a solar powered device that features address and numbers which remain clearly visible, regardless of whether it is day or night. This is made possible thanks to a solar panel that has been built into the top of the mailbox, where it will harness the power of the sun in order to send juice to an LED that illuminates the address numbers on both sides of the mailbox. There is also a light sensor that ensures the LED will be able to turn on automatically at dusk and off at dawn, with the bright illumination working so well, guests or deliverymen can see it from up to to 50′ away. A single day of charging on the solar panel will allow the 3″-tall numbers to remain illuminated for up to 40 hours. Simply fantastic, no?
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Panasonic, the Japanese giant that has done its bit to make sure that darkness is eradicated in different parts of the poorest regions of the world, by launching the “Cut Out the Darkness” project which will see the delivery of solar lanterns and shades which are based on designs that have been contributed by participants to homes and schools in the non-electrified regions. In fact, Panasonic is right now on the lookout for folks worldwide to be involved in this very project, all the while hoping to make the participants aware of the various issues in these regions that do not have the luxury of electricity.

At the moment, around 1.32 billion people worldwide still do not have access to electricity, which is something that many of us take for granted, actually. In fact, many homes in the regions still fall back on kerosene lamps for lighting purposes, and it goes without saying that such kerosene lamps do pose as a serious fire and health threat. Being unable to obtain a sufficient amount of light, it also further restricts them to what they can do. With less or no electric lighting at all, it ends up affecting the health and education sectors, as well as the economy.

Solar lanterns could be the solution here, as users can use these to juice up electricity during the daytime, saving all of that power in the secondary battery, which will then be able to be called upon at night, which will do its bit to solve social issues in non-electrified regions while making sure that fire and health risks are curbed, not to mention to reduce the emission of CO2 by kerosene lamps.

If you want to participate in the “Cut Out the Darkness” project, its website will come with its own application which lets you design a cutout while checking out a virtual shade image on-screen as you work on the design. After the design is complete, submit it online and visitors will vote on how popular it is. The top 100 popular designs will be chosen and manufactured before being sent over to those far flung places that badly need such a basic infrastructure.

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Sure, many of us have at the bare minimum, one smartphone with us at all times, while others who are more liberal with their wallets have an iPad or tablet device to play around with, not to mention majority of the modern day workforce relying on a notebook or Ultrabook to get their work done on the go. This has certainly led one to think along the lines of ensuring that every single device must be charged the night before so that they have enough juice to last at least throughout the next day. While this is the ideal situation, it does not happen the way you want to all the time, and in the event of an emergency, what are you going to do? This is where the Goal Zero Yeti 150 and Yeti 400 Solar Generators would come in handy, also helping those who want to be prepared for the fast approaching 2013 hurricane season complete their preparations.

The Yeti 400 tips the scales at 29 pounds, and yet it can deliver 400 watt-hours of power, which is the same amount required to juice a smartphone 30 times over, a laptop 5 times, being able to power a TV for 3 hours (although I am quite sure that the brightness level does affect the final count), or even more than 100 hours of light thanks to Goal Zero’s Light-a-Life LED lantern. You can juice up the Yeti 400 from a wall power outlet in a matter of 5 hours, or just like Kal-El, use the sun and wait for 30 hours thanks to the Nomad 27 Solar Panel.

The smaller sized but similarly equipped Yeti 150 Solar Generator will be able to carry enough juice to have it deliver 50 hours of light, 15 smartphone recharges, 6 tablet recharges or 2 laptop recharges, all the while tipping the scales at a relatively lightweight 12 lbs, now how about that? It takes 24 hours under direct sunlight to charge to its maximum capacity, or 5 hours via a wall outlet. You can pick up the Yeti 150 and Yeti 400 Solar Generators for $199.99 and $459.99, respectively.

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[ Goal Zero Yeti 150 and Yeti 400 Solar Generators ensures you have juice at all times copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]