What with the wooden flashlight and now this solar-powered radio, it's quickly turning into eco-Wednesday. I almost bought one of these little gizmos at the weekend, but shied away as the boutique gift-store price was way more than the $25 you US residents can buy it for.
The Kikkerland radio can run off the Sun, but there's also a crank to juice things on cloudier days. The product specs say that one minute of cranking gives half an hour of radio-play, and it will run for seven hours when fully charged. What they don't say is that to achieve that full charge, you have to leave it in sunlight for the better part of a day (yes, I read the details on gadget boxes even on my days off). Still, for outdoor use it's perfect, and the styling makes it look like a prop from the Jetsons. It tunes to AM and FM, and there's a headphone jack, but sadly no line-in.
Product page [USeful Things via Red Ferret]
