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Wind. It’s all around us (some people more than others). You can’t see it, but you can feel it. Clever.

Other features of wind include:

• Not knowing where it’s come from
• Not knowing where it’s going

It’s so good, that we were going to have an entry just for ‘Wind’, but the picture would have been a bit dull so we decided against it.

Anyway, point is that people nowadays (I love that word), have worked out that if you get a big propeller-like construction and attach a motor to it, you can (by the simple virtue of what we physicists like to call “spinny-motion”) get electricity out the other end. Spiffy.

Which is where this particular device comes in. Aimed at the camping market, the idea is this:

• Wait for a force 9 gale***
• Watch as your tent, your car, your girlfriend and your just-purchased hamster get blown away****
• Smile, safe in the knowledge that you now have enough juice to charge your mobile so you check the football scores

It’s a winner all round, I say.

Source via Treehugger

Ryan

*** ok ok, so it’ll work fine with a 12mph breeze
**** ok ok, so your tent, car, girlfriend and hamster aren’t going anywhere

Grilliput is the perfect companion for when your wife kicks you out of the house for being overly obsessed with useless gadgets. The Grilliput camping grill takes up only 29cm x 2.2cm of space, but expands to a whopping 26 cm x 23cm. Enough grill space for at least, woah, about 2 sausages and half a beef burger.

Costing £24.99 from iwantoneofthose.com it makes for a great Father’s day gift, unless of course your father has a severe smoke allergy.

What they don’t show you is the 5Kg bag of charcoal, cool-bag full of semi-thawed saveloys and ruck-sack full of fire-lighters that would be needed to accompany this tiniest of cooking grills.
Once you’re all kitted out, you’ll resemble a hungrier version of Andy McNabb.

Barbecue 2 Zero, we have a slight problem. In McNabb’s own words..”We binned our burgers. Couldn’t move quick enough with them. We heard contacts far on in the distance. But they weren’t shooting at us.”