Articles tagged with: eco-friendly
At the moment, one of the hot issue is the climate change due to green house gases. To tackle to this issue, ATP Electronics has teamed up with American Forest Partnership to produce an environment friendly USB memory stick called EathDrive. These drives are made up of a biodegradable material, which means they are… Click here to read on...
This isn't just any geeky looking laptop bag, it actually delivers very environment friendly functionality! The Voltaic Generator is actually the world's first laptop bag to generate strong enough power to charge your laptop via solar energy! Not only does it charge your laptop, it can also charge your mobile phone and handheld. The picture… Click here to read on...
It's always exciting to hear news about people willing to sacrifice and devote their own time to spreading the message about global warming, it feels proud to be blogging about them too!
Louis Palmer and his team from Switzerland will be attempting to go around the globe in his solar-powered car, as pictured. The three wheeled… Click here to read on...
NoPoPo (Japanese made) - the name sounds horrible doesn't it? The concept of how it works may also put you off too! Basically these batteries are quite good at what they do in providing the power for whatever it is that needs it.They come in AAA or AA size, it's been claimed that a single… Click here to read on...
I've categorised this as 'Green Tech', though this isn't necessarily technology related, but it does involve the use of resources which may be just junk hanging around in your own home.
So what is it that you need for this DIY trick?
Magnets
Old A/C adaptor that you are comfortable cutting into pieces with
Distilled water
Electrical tape
Knife
Plastic wrapping and… Click here to read on...
This may not be exactly what you expect from the theme 'Green Tech', but hey why not? Have a look the pics below showing some very effective use of old PC hardware:
An old CD-rom drive becomes a salami cutting tool:
An old mouse becomes a toothbrush holder:
An old 14" monitor becomes a hamster cage:
A spinning knife… Click here to read on...
Now this is what I call 'green tech'! 'Post a Phone' is a landline telephone built on the concept of 'simplicity', it's only 4 mm thick, though still only a concept, the thought of it certainly deserves some good attention. Priestman Goode who is the designer of this concept thinks it would be most… Click here to read on...
Back in August, we wrote a post about Local Cooling, at the same time we also started to use Local Cooling as a way to promoting green tech and also to help reduce our pc's unnecessary power consumption. Guess what? Just after about one and a half month, we've managed to save 3.132 trees, which… Click here to read on...
Ok, so the topic of this post has very much been in everyone's mind in the recent years, what's more this software isn't necessarily just for tree-huggers! Anyone can pitch-in to help reduce global warming directly from your desktop with LocalCooling. I have been waiting for something this meaningful for a long time, this new… Click here to read on...







