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Solar technology is one of those things that has been around for ages but just seems to have a really hard time catching on.

Sure, lots of people and businesses are starting to get “green” and use them on a large scale, but solar panels in smaller, everyday life just hasn’t made a splash.

Eclipse Solar Gear is out to change that. They’ve got dozens of products with built in solar “modules” that ultimately let you charge your products on the go. No more worrying about your phone dying when you’re out walking to work for the day…just plug it in to your bag and charge it on the way!

This BrimLight is such a great idea. It clips to the underside of your hat and provides hands free light!

Five LED lights provide light for many hours and the battery life is up to 40 hours long. This is just a smart solution to hands free lighting and for $17.95 it definitely seems worth it.

[Via Book of Joe]

The digital photography industry has been booming non-stop for the past few years. That’s all well and good, but I feel like things have gotten a bit stale on the innovation side of things.

Industrial designer Franziska Faoro has seemingly felt this way too and has created a really unique new way to photograph life.

The Triops camera is a digital camera that’s built to take pictures via a trigger by sound, movement, or a manual release. Yes, the word “movement” is in there and yes that is a rubber padding on that photo of the product. You can throw this camera down the street, in the woods, underwater, wherever…it’s made to take a beating and capture things you couldn’t duplicate if you tried.

Unfortunately this isn’t in production yet. Let’s cross our fingers and hope it gets there.

[via Yanko Design]

Fall is upon us. The leaves here in Colorado are changing and are amazing colors of bright yellow and orange and the air is crisp.

Unfortunately along with the changing colors are also falling leaves…which means gutters are caked full of nature’s debris.

iRobot, makers of all things robotic, have created the iRobot Looj 130 Gutter Cleaning Robot to help you out.

Just drop the Looj in to your gutter, turn it on and let it make it’s way down your gutters for you and throw all that junk overboard.

If you’ve got a lot of gutter to go through, this is probably well worth the $130 it costs.

[via Uncrate]

This takes playing with your food to a whole new level. When I was young, I LOVED my Plah-Doh spaghetti maker, so of course I love this new kitchen gadget.

You can use almost any type of vegetable in the Vegetable Twister. It can turn your boring meal into a piece of art. Mmmm I can just taste some lovely sweet potatoes twirls!

If this doesn’t scream 1985, I don’t know what does. Also, if you’re still stuck in the 80’s, this is the perfect shoe for you!

Not sure if it is real, but if they are, they would give these shoes a “run” for their money!