Environmentally Sound…Music

If you like the idea of an environmentally friendly radio, then we here at greendeal.com would like to give you the incentive to do so. You actually have a few really cool models to choose from. All of them are wind up, some of them can store solar power and some come with their own mobile phone charger for those of you who can’t live without the phone. However, they really only provide emergency power to the phone so no long chats. Many also come with a built in flashlight. Radio prices vary also from as low as £20, up to around £100 depending on what your needs.

The wind-up radio was invented by a London born man named Trevor G. Baylis. Mr. Baylis was watching a program about the spread of aids in Africa and how the only means of communication was the radio. However, because many regions are so very poor and have no electricity and batteries are too expensive and difficult to acquire. Being a born inventory Mr. Baylis used a hand brace, electric motor and a small radio. He turned the brace and the motor into a generator. His first radio played for 14 minuets on a two minuet wind, thus inventing the Baylis generator.

A wind up radio is always good to have in the house and car for emergencies. When the power goes out in your home due to a storm or anything else Mother Nature feels like doing. If you’re driving at night and have car trouble, you’ll be very happy to have that wind up radio with the built in lamp in your car trunk for just such an occasion as this one.