In the advent of alternative ways of paying like Applepay and Samsungpay. The financial technology market or “fintech” as it is now dubbed are looking for new simple ways to get us spending.

Meet Curve. A payment card that  promises to be the only card you will need.

How it works, you simply download the phone app and order the card (yes it comes with an actual card). You add all your payment cards on the app, choose a default card, and viola! You wouldn’t need your phone for anything else until you decide to change the default payment card or want to see a break down of your outgoing and incoming transactions.

The card itself is a Mastercard, so you can use your it anywhere Mastercard is accepted. It can be used as a chip and pin, magnetic strip swipe or contactless. So it really is a well rounded solution for someone with many cards. You can leave all other cards at home and just have your Curve card with you.

Don’t cut up your cards yet though, as the Curve is not yet out for use. The idea is out there and they are bringing it to reality soon! This means these types of services will be flooding the market soon enough!

Plastc, a competitor is already coming out with its own card and is a real contender and a bit more style to it. However, it needs to be charged electrically every month! see below!

We call this innovation meets simplicity! Kudos to the inventors of this brilliant idea. We do hope they stay ahead of the curve!

We all know how easy our mobile devices lose battery juice and leave us hanging just when we need them the most! Well, someone thought that was a big problem until they invented the mobile charger – some even using the sun’s power to charge your phone – ensuring you get going without finding the nearest wall socket, if you kept the mobile charger charged that is!

Now, even better, a company MyFC has devised a slick solar charger that doesn’t use electric power to charge itself or your phone! It uses salt and water! Yes, salt and water!

We have all heard the story and we feel the evidence around us, conventional electric power we use needs to be cut down, not just to reduce our energy bills, but also to save our planet for ourselves and our descendants! As the saying goes, necessity is the mother of invention, this holds true as we have seen more and more innovations that help us curb our wasteful, destructive energy consumption to help us better harness less environmentally toxic and more efficient clean energy.

JAQ is a small device, but it is part of a movement to reduce our negative impact on our environment!

The sun is the biggest ball of energy we know of in our solar system. There is so much power in our sun that can last us a life time only if we find ways to use it. We are very keen on harnessing such immense and long lasting power because we have evidence around us that burning fuel is hurting our environment.

Converting solar energy into electricity, since discovered in 1839 has been in research, and we are getting better at getting power from the sun. However, today we are still theorising that solar panel used to harness the sun’s power will only be 50% efficient in the nearest future. So when there is an applied advancement in solar power generation, we take a step closer to 100% efficiency harvesting the sun’s power and a greener earth.

Meet the GoSun stove!

It is simple, the GoSun cooks your food without gas or fire! It boils, fry, or bake your food using the heat from the sun! It works by transforming solar light into heat to evenly make that delicious meal. Oh yes and it works at night or cloudy days! Amazing right? Don’t just take our word for it, take a look at the video below.

We need more of innovations like this if we are to save our planet from ourselves! We say kudos to the inventor of this nifty device, and wish to see more applied solar energy devices. One day, every electronic device we use might just run on solar power! A green world indeed!