This sweet looking contraption allows you to grow your own herbs, small fruits and veggies in your own kitchen! There are a million gadgets like this in every magazine (SkyMall especially), but what makes this particular growing gadget impressive is not only the design, but how environmentally friendly it is. Totally solar powered and totally cool.

Though a long way from being commercialized, the new battery developed by Sony generates electricity using glucose, which is chemically broken down with enzymes. Apparently, you can power small electronics endlessly through a supply of glucose solution which you pour into the battery (I’m sure airline security will love that). While glucose-powered batteries are more environmentally friendly because they don’t emit carbon dioxide, at this stage of development, they’re not yet very practical. The output of a single glucose cell is 50 milliwatts; in the photo above, four cells are linked together to generate sufficient power to operate an MP3 player.

Cool, now if i can get a battery to run off my fat cells….now THAT’S an idea