Here's a APPY solution that should brighten up a wet weekend away camping - a wood powered stove that also recharges your smartphone. The CampStove can burn sticks, pine cones and biomass to generate enough heat and power to charge a phone, light, satnav or gadget that is USB chargeable. The quirky invention converts the heat from the fire to power a fan and produce the electric charge that US manufacturers BioLite claim eliminates the need for expensive fuel when users are without electricity. They say its CHAR-GE GRILLED capabilities still provide enough power for a fully fired stove to cook a meal's essentials when a device is on charge. Users in the US hailed its effectiveness during Hurricane Sandy when over six million people lost electricity with some able to carry on cooking and keeping electronics charged using the device. The stove's powerpack slips inside the small 21cm by 12cm cooking chamber and is lit with a match or lighter, weighing in at 935g. It currently retails at £80 ($129) in the US and is set to be available in stores in the UK next summer.
MAKING himself at home, this little snail perches happily on top of this frog's head .
Kevin Silva, 52 from Indiana in the USA, has spent an estimated £65K ($100K) on Batman trinkets over the years, and even keeps his 2,500-item haul in his very own basement 'Bat Cave' .
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Complete with core, mantle and crust, these incredible planet cakes are truly out of this world .
The claws come out at meal time as a group of white tailed eagles brawl over road-kill .
SITTING in the middle of a vast desert, an abandoned cinema is still waiting for its first movie to be screened .
Exploding out of the water, a great white shark performs a backflip during a hunt for seals .
INSIDE Britain's last Naval hospital where scurvy was cured looks like an NHS time capsule .
A BAMBI was dramatically caught in mid-air by a greedy Nile crocodile in a once-in-a-million flying pincer move .
A man who conned tax officials out of £34 million and funded a lavish lifestyle of luxury hotels and restaurants has been jailed for one of the longest sentences in British criminal fraud history .
Balanced on one leg, a frog assumes the crane kick martial arts stance made famous in the movie The Karate Kid .
FORGET Thorpe Park this summer as this is a 50 mile-per-hour ride over the Colorado River CANYON .