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MP lives on £18 a week food bill, and we love her for it

It’s not often we find an MP we like. More often than not, we’re found frothing at the mouth about some tosspot who’s calling for poor people to be shot, or for millionaires (sorry, wealth creators) to receive tax cuts – often at the same time. Cos, you know, wealth creators lavish money upon poors, […]

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Whiz kid from Sierra Leone built own battery, radio transmitter

Kelvin Doe’s neighborhood in Sierra Leone has power lines, but they seldom deliver electricity. So, the 16-year-old whiz kid built his own battery out of acid, soda, and metal parts scavenged from trash bins that he now uses to light up area homes and help him work on his own inventions. Among other gadgets to […]

Foot Power !!

Orange Power Wellies eco-charge festival goers’ tech Posted by Luke Johnson on Mon 7 Jun 2010 for www.t3.com/ Eco technologies put their best foot forward Orange has today unveiled the ultimate gadget footwear for the summer’s festival goers, a pair of eco-wellies that harness the heat from your feet to charge your mobile phone. Thanks […]