Also dubbed the wind up iPod, the Trevor Baylis Eco Media Player is a great gadget for camping trips, long car rides, or anyone who wants to avoid the inconvenience of a dead battery. This multimedia player can run for a good 40 green minutes off of one minute of winding. Besides winding, it can also be charged with a standard USB cable.

When fully charged it is claimed to be able to hold a charge capacity of up to 20 hours, but when put test is was found to be capable of 32 hours of audio playback and a surprising 17 hrs of video.

A few good steps up the evolutionary scale than the windable torch (which is also available through Trevor Baylis), the Eco Media Player incorporates various other functions such as music and video player, FM radio, photo viewer, voice recorder, flashlight, and it can be used to charge a cell phone.

If you don’t want to listen with headphones you can use the built in mono speaker. It also comes with 2 GB of space which makes it useful as a storage device as well.

Although it has been out for awhile, it has received little competition and still remains the best of its kind in the market. It has its downsides though, firstly it’s a bit expensive - £129.95 new. It’s also quite difficult to arrange the audio files since it doesn’t support ID3 tag sorting.

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