Clocks were never as advanced today as they were in the earlier years, maybe even most of us were around. But for the curious minds, here is a clock that should come close to taking you back to the timepieces of yesteryears called the Umbra Time Teller.

The Umbra Time Teller takes the concept of the sundial, relying on the traditional clock hands to tell time. It features some shadowed lines to show the hour and the minutes, common but on a different way of telling the time.

The Umbra Time Teller was designed by Roshan Hakkim, something that relies on two strips of LED and not actual sunlight. The needle casts two shadows on the surface of the clock depending on the position of both lights. These two shadows represent either the hour or the minute, giving the clock an overall clean and simple look.

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The Umbra Time Teller Clock

Solar-powered stoves or burners are nothing new but when you add a touch of flexibility with regards to shape, then this Korean concept burners may gain your interest. These are the Hot Liner, solar-powered cooking stoves which are lined with a surface that can heat or boil food according to your liking.

The solar panels can be bent into any shape, making it compatible with any shape or size of bowls or pots. When you need to charge them, all you have to do is drape them around a tree to expose them to sunlight. These are concepts for now but you will agree that the idea does bring a touch of elegance and eco-friendliness to the consumer market.

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Solar Powered Cooking Stoves

Here is something you can consider for the Christmas season. As people are being wooed into shifting on their Christmas lighting needs, the Solar Powered Festive Rope Light should be a viable alternative. They are German made lights and designed to work with certain climates. This LED rope light comes with either 40 red or yellow LEDs and measures 2.5m long. It even includes a waterproof solar panel and battery box. With a full battery charge your lights will sparkle for up to 3 days without the need for sunlight.

Price: £21.99

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Solar Powered Festive Rope Light

Here is another one of those gadgets that solicits its power from the sun. The sun moves the hour hands and the minute hands via solar power, which you can hang on a wall or place on top of a table or shelf. The clock’s front changes in the daylight and powers the rechargeable battery that is included. It comes complete with long and short hands for wall or desk mounting, landscape or portrait orientation. The clock should be positioned well where there is sunlight to make sure that it charges when the sun is out.

Price: £24.99

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Another Solar Clock

We had already seen blinds that were designed to solicit energy during the daytime for nighttime power but now we see a new concept named blight. For the record, the blight concept involves attaching solar panels onto venetian blinds.

Blight is a word play on “blinds” and “light”. The panels soak up the sun during the day, and at night they light up your life. Sunlight charges a battery cell on the top of the blinds. Then when you’re ready to use actual power you collected from it (normally advisable at night time).

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Blight the Blinds for Solar Power and Energy Savings

They are blinds by day and lamps by night. This is what best typifies this design brought to us by Korean designers Yoon-Hui Kim and Eun-Kyung. During the daytime, we all hate the sunlight and as an alternative to curtains, blinds are being used by most homes.

Now while the shutters are closed, little solar pads are installed at the blinds facing the sun thus soliciting solar power energy for the Solar Vertical Lamps. Once night time comes, simply switch on these vertical lamps, fully charged and without the need to plug them to any outlet.

They can be ideal mood lights for people once the evening sets in with no additional energy costs to worry about.

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Solar Vertical Lamps By Night

Bamboo has surely been in the air these days as far as ideal alternative raw materials for finished furniture needs are concerned, and apparently the attention is drawing a lot of bright ideas, both from designers and the consumers.

Designers have come up with a lot of different home and furniture ideas but don’t leave out the consumers as well. Consumers seem to have shifted their attention towards bamboo as well and apparently it is safe to say that bamboo is slowly becoming a resource to help address home needs and furniture solutions.

Adapt furniture made from natural materials which are renewable, or sustainable material like bamboo or cork and arrange them such that they don’t block the flow of energy or sunlight.

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People are getting Bamboo-zled

Do you need an ultimate curtain for your window to block out the sun more efficiently?

You can refer to this simply DIY on how to make heat blocking curtains using insulating material and some creativity.

This will work well for those of you who live in areas with all-year sun.

To save electricity with our super expensive A/C, I constructed reflective curtains to block sunlight from warming our house. Think auto windshield. This is super simple and kind of obvious, but it works well.

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DIY – How to Make Heat Blocking Curtains!