Tag: HGG-EARTHLOVER

BRAMMO Enertia Electric Motorcycle (Earth Lover, Cost No Object) Among the first two-wheeled fully electric street-legal motorcycles on the market, Brammo's Enertia is a fun and substantial little ride for moto enthusiasts and short-range commuters (check out our full review here). It zips along at up to 50 mph (sounding remarkably like the Lexus from Minority Report) and is capable of 45 ...

Areaware Vanmoof Bike (Earth Lover, Under $1,000) If the hipster trend of sleek, lightweight fixed gear-bikes leaves you cold (or with a concussion, as the case very well may be), then a less-aggressive cruiser might be more your speed. Leave it to the Dutch, who are perhaps the world's most devout users of two-wheelers, to make the most of the ordinarily drab cruiser. Areaware's Vanmoof ...

HYmini Green Charger (Earth Lover, Under $100) Eco-conscious people, however dedicated to their ideals, enjoy the same fruits of modern technology -- smartphones, MP3 players, and digital cameras -- as the rest of us. One company has created a sustainable way to charge those gadgets using multiple renewable energy sources including wind, the sun, and even a handcrank. The HYMini Green ...

Freehands Texting Gloves (Earth Lover, Under $50) Smoking gloves are so passé, not to mention, environmentally-unfriendly. Texting gloves, on the other hand (pun intended), are like the 2009 version of the foldback-mittens (the simple, removable finger piece, above, means you can keep on texting regardless of the weather). Keeping digits toasty while shooting off a text is actually ...

MSR Reactor Outdoor Stove (Earth Lover, Under $250) Cooking outside can be challenging, no matter how seasoned the outdoorsman. The MSR Reactor stove will get it done, and will do it quickly. Burning a mixture of isobutane and propane, the windproof, hyper-efficient Reactor uses less than half the fuel of an average gas stove. The 1.7 liter pot is spacious enough to prepare high tea for ...

Ever wondered if that 93 octane you're paying two arms and a leg for is really 93 octane? Pondered the legitimacy of that "homogenized and pasteurized" claim on your most recent milk purchase? If so, congratulations. You're the target market for the D+caf caffeine test strip. Reportedly, these strips keep the paranoid abreast of the truth whenever they venture out for a decaf drink; java sippers ...

OLPC XO-1 Laptop (Kids, Under $500) The OLPC foundation?short for One Laptop Per Child?was founded with the goal of developing and then sending out a low-power, low-cost but fully functional computer to as many kids in developing countries as possible. It's a pretty great idea. But they're now available to us first-world types as well, so you can let your kiddies in on the fun with what is ...

Plant Sense EasyBloom (Domestic God/Goddess, under $100) Bringing green thumbs into the digital age, the EasyBloom is a nifty device that tells users both what may be ailing with their plants, and what other vegetation they should consider. To diagnose underperforming greenery, put the EasyBloom in Monitor mode, stab it into the ground nearby and leave it there for 24 hours. Then plug it into ...