Well, this may hardly be a practical green energy (taking 2380 orange slices to charge an iPhone!) this is still a brilliant video. Check it out!
How Many Oranges Does It Take to Power an iPhone? – iPhone – Gizmodo.
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TreeHugger makes an interesting point about this gadget – it seems that solar cells are being placed on everything these days. While I’m not sure how well the solar cell would charge considering you’re likely to be using in a car – where light might not reach – I totally promote the idea of a [...]
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Treehugger has put together a great list of over 100 iPhone apps to green every part of your life. From measuring footprings to carbon offsets to green shopping, it seems there’s nothing the iPhone can’t do.
Some of my favorites:
Carbon offset your phone – $2.99
This app claims to put a portion of the purchase price towards [...]
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With the constant upgrading that has become the staple of modern technology, we tend to end up with a lot of electronic garbage – I know I have a couple of iPods sitting around and quite a couple cellphones.
Enter the EcoATM – the ATM that pays you for your old technology. It’s cellphone-only at the [...]
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We covered a previous solar-powered iPhone case from Solar Arcadia, but they now have a new version – the Surge.
Available for both the iPhone and iPod Touch, the surge give your precious gadget some power when you’re out and about, all you need is the sun!
2 hours of direct solar exposure provides 30 minutes of [...]
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We’ve covered plenty of bamboo technology, including Vers other bamboo iPod speaker, the 2X. Bamboo is a great material to build with and super-sustainable due to it’s incredibly fast growth. Bamboo makes for a great combination of technology and sustainability and bring a great natural looks to your gadgets as well.
The Vers 1.5 takes the [...]
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Incredible concept by Phillips to bring fresh vegetables and fish to your house. This “self-contained biosphere farm” will grow vegetables all year round and contains a fish tank for fresh fish.
Now before you point out all the energy needed for it, get this: it runs on food waste, AND it provides hydrogen for future hydrogen [...]
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This is Solar Arcadia’s iphone case - this case comes with solar panels to give your phone some extra juice. This case could be a lifesaver for those on the go that can’t charge their phone as often. The case comes in “SideFlip” and “Leather Flip”, and also come in red, black, or white.
You can [...]
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Well here’s something interesting. At CES this year Motorola announced the “Renew” - a completely carbon neutral cellphone.
The phone is made out of recycled plastic water bottles, and any carbon produced by manufacturing, usage, etc is offset by Carbonfund.org.
Interesting that Motorola has chosen to make a special environmentally-friendly phone rather than convert their line entirely, [...]
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Scientists are working with a small type of bug that does something amazing. It eats waste and excrete’s crude oil. Pretty damn amazing. Now sure, the idea of ‘renewable oil’, while pretty amazing, does nothing for the environment. It doesn’t cut down on pollution, it doesn’t help global warming. However, it does cut down on [...]
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So it looks like electric vehicles are finally hitting the mainstream. Engadget is reporting that the Chevy Volt will be priced at only $40,000, much cheaper than something like the Tesla! So, at an affordable price, would you buy one?
Chevy Volt plug-in hybrid priced at $40,000 - Engadget
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We’ve covered a whole bunch of wooden things in the past. There’s definitely a certain something to wood-covered technology, and bornrich brings you a list of 12 really cool wood based products. Check out the wooden sportscar! Yeah! A Sportscar!
Top 12 Wooden Creations You Would Love To Spend Your Money On - Born Rich
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This is the Philips Eco TV. Debuted at CES 2008, it detects the amount of ambient light and adjusts it’s backlight to compensate. By using less backlight when it can, the Eco TV takes another small step into making our devices as efficient as possible.
Philips’ Eco TV sips power, saves rainforest - CES 2008 - [...]
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We’ve covered tire pressure monitors before, and we’ve told you how properly inflated tires can save buttloads on fuel costs. Well, in the future we can forget all about that. Meet the TWEEL!
businessshrink.biz » Blog Archive » With underinflated tires eating up gas, where is the TWEEL?
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This is an amazing how-to on building your own solar panel. It’s incredibly cheap as well at only $104.85, much cheaper than pre-built models. Let’s hear it for DIY!
How I Built and electricity producing Solar Panel
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Hello all you ecogeeks!
Just want to wish you all a very Merry Christmas from ecogadget!
(and a Happy Holidays to those who don’t celebrate Christmas)
Have a great day and a I hope you got some great ecogifts!
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Raise Me Up is an innovative powerbar design which makes it easy to unplug devices, and of course, unplugging your devices saves energy!
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We cover a lot of energy efficient products and other gadgets that can help you reduce your energy consumption, but how much money can you actually save by living a greener life?
We decided to find out.
We’ve all received high energy bills and wondered where all that electricity went. Fortunately, a lot of it is actually [...]
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Pools can be a great way to spend a hot summer day, but all those chemicals used to clean the pool and the energy used by the pool pump are not the best for the environment.
The Solar Breeze is a pool cleaner that hopes to make your summer pooling experience a bit more green. The [...]
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Well, we all know we’ve got to recycle, but not many people really enjoy it. You’ve gotta trek out to the recycling bin, you’ve gotten stack cans carefully if you don’t have enough space, and you have to find a special way to fit paper, plastic and cans into the same box!
Well the ecopod attempts [...]
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Cars are getting greener all the time, but still nothing compares to the good ol’ bicycle. Unfortunately, most bikes don’t come with nearly as many cool gadgets as most cars or trucks. GPS, Speedometers, Clocks, Radios, all cool gadgets that motorists enjoy and bicyclists often have to deal without.
Sure, we can all claim we don’t [...]
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If you love to read you’ve no doubt noticed all the paper used. One cord of wood (about 2 tons) makes under five-hundred 200 page books. Hell, Chapters is basically a tree slaughterhouse!
Of course, your environmental concerns shouldn’t stop you from reading, so why not try an e-book instead?
e-books, if you’re not familiar, are full [...]
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Well well well, Sony is stepping up and starting to really get into green technology. They started with the sugar battery back in August, and now comes the Twirl-N-Take, and as cheap as it looks, it’s a pretty cool idea.
The twirl-n-take is a green-powered camera. That is, it doesn’t use batteries for power. That strange [...]
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Hippyshopper is giving away a 16gb iPod touch on their website. All you have to do is take a short survey, and you’ll be entered. Pretty easy, why not?
Head on over and take their survey, and if you do win, be sure to get a green-power charger to go along with it!
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Computers and circuit boards aren’t that great for landfills, as they actually contain a whole bunch of harmful chemicals.
So why not keep all your precious family memories in them instead?
This photo album is made from recycled circuit boards for the front and back covers. It’s like some wonderful invention from the future!
This photo album will [...]
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