Solar Ibex Solar Cooker Will Make You Look Incredibly Cool
Prototype A, from SolarIbex.com.
Add the Solar Ibex to your list of bad ass tools you need to survive the zombie apocalypse (or the impending outlawing of anything with a carbon footprint). This is not your grandparent's solar-powered "cooker", though; you can also boil, bake, fry, BBQ, steam, and roast.
The Ibex offers an auto-tracking sun ray concentrator (neat!), adjustable cooking times (with temperatures up to 300 degrees Celsius), and it looks like it could be weaponized easily. It's lightweight (about 8kg), and portable (the folding size is that of a medium backpack), saves you on fuel costs, and it produces zero greenhouse gases.
Designer Nir Beit-av, of Tamooz C.S. industrial design studio, created this portable green kitchen to be useful to climbers, people roughing it without actually wanting to rough it (you can boil water for drinking and showers, people!), and socially and economically conscious people wishing to set good examples at home. Those in developing countries could use it for solar water pasteurization, and cut down on high fuel costs. Now, what's the price?
Well, it's zero for us normal consumers, because, unfortunately, this is still in project form. The designers are refining and testing the Solar Ibex in all sorts of terrain, and are now seeking investors to bring this vision to market. Pass it on!
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