Eddy's Good News: New miniature windmill for hikers and new edible sticky tape for wraps!

Virgin Radio

23 May 2022, 09:20

Every day during his show on Virgin Radio, Eddy Temple-Morris brings you Good News stories from around the world, to help inject a bit of positivity into your day!Be sure to listen each day between 10am and 1pm (Monday - Friday) to hear Eddy's Good News stories (amongst the finest music of course), but if you miss any of them you can catch up on the transcripts of Eddy's most recent stories below:Monday 23rd May 2022

Cool news from the Kickstarter platform and a really useful gismo for hikers, a miniature windmill (without the mill) that can power all your portable electrics! Say hello Shine, it’s an actual wind turbine that fits in your backpack and it’ll only add three pounds to your overall weight.

It comes with a spike (or tripod) and four guy ropes to anchor it down, it’s easy as anything to set up and you just plug your phone in and charge it up to 40 watts thanks to mother nature! The rotating head is cleverly designed to turn into the wind, so it doesn’t matter which direction you set it up, it’ll always correct itself. The blades brilliantly fold around the body, the apparatus that holds it up is all aluminium so that even with a battery - which is always quite heavy - it only weighs less than 1.5 kilos. As every walker knows, it’s more likely to be windy than sunny, so this will be more practical than one of those roll up solar panels. It’s not cheap, but it is very cool looking and a good idea. If you’re an adventurer that fancies one, I’ve put a link for you here :)

Via: kickstarter.com

Marvellously sticky news from the USA as students invent edible sticky tape to keep your wraps wrapped!

Say hello to the burrito loving team of bio-chemical engineering students at Baltimore’s Jon Hopkins University who’ve been working on a tape to keep their tortillas and tacos from tumbling and their gyros from gyrating and they’ve come up with an entirely edible and beneficial tape, that’s got a clever adhesive made from a “a food-grade fibrous scaffold and an organic adhesive” made from…well…we don’t actually know what it’s made from because they’re applying for a patent and they want to keep their cards close to their chest for obvious reasons, but suffice to say it does the job of holding the fattest of burritos in place without hurting us, or our white shirt as it dismantles mid munch. The scoffable sticky-tape was the star of the show at the University’s Design Day which the students were delighted by the fact it was in person this year instead of being sidelined to online by Covid.

Read more about it at the virgin radio website here!

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