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Hydrofill: Generate and Store Hydrogen to Power None of Your Gadgets!
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Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies’ hydrogen station the HydroFILL is a small and portable hydrogen generator, and the battery-shaped HydroSTIK cartridges are even smaller, but right now there’s no sense in buying it unless you have gadgets that can harness the hydrogen. You can buy a small number of hydrogen-powered toys… |
February 8th, 2010
White Goat Eats Paper, Poops Toilet Paper
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Spotted at the Eco-Products 2009 trade show, Oriental Co. Ltd.’s White Goat is a paper shredder that turns the shredded bits of paper into toilet paper. It is named after the famous Japanese White Goat, which eats paper and then shits out toilet paper. Yeah that’s not true. I wish… |
February 1st, 2010
Lexon Safe Bamboo and Bio-Plastic Calculators, Clocks and Radios
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If you care about the environment, you’ll love that Lexon has just announced a new range of small appliances powered by renewable energy. Designed by Elium Studio, the Lexon SAFE line of home goods come encased in environmentally-friendly corn bio-plastic and trimmed off with bamboo. I think best item in… |
January 28th, 2010
Moneual Minew G001: Eco-Pc Tells You How Much Power You’Re Using
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I spotted this unique PC while trolling the aisles at this year’s CES show. This cool looking PC from Korea’s Moneaul does something really unique if you’re into monitoring your energy consumption. The Minew G001 actually displays the current wattage consumed by your system on a large LED display, front… |
January 7th, 2010
Design Hara’S Green Pc Struts Its Woody Goodness
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While all of you guys are ogling the latest and greatest Tablet PCs and 3-D TVs at CES, here’s a new desktop PC that’s sure to draw some stares. Design Hara’s eco-friendly “Green PC” definitely caught my… eye. The compact PC comes is a small handcrafted chassis, complete with handmade |
January 6th, 2010
Nec Batteryless Remote Control: We Don’T Need No Stinkin’ Batteries
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How many times have you had to get your lazy ass off of the couch to get up and change the channel because the batteries in your remote died. Well thanks to some fine high-tech minds, someday you may never need to worry about changing the batteries in your remote… |
November 17th, 2009
Cool Rider: Like a Segway, but Not Really
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Lately, we’ve been running into lots of unusual personal transportation vehicles. The Cool Rider is just the latest attempt to dethrone the venerable Segway from the top of the single-person transporter heap. The Cool Rider isn’t quite as schmancy as a Segway, but it still looks like a fun way… |
November 12th, 2009
Ecofan Bamboo Cooling Stands: Cool Your Laptop With Wood
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Does your laptop get hotter than Hades and overheat all the time? I know there are plenty of laptop cooling solutions out there, but how many of them actually look decent? Macally’s wooden ECOFAN and ECOFANPRO stands keep your laptop nice and cool, and look good doing it . Each… |
November 4th, 2009
OLED Lighting About to Make Rooms a Whole Lot Cooler
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As we look for more ways to generate energy-efficient light, we’ve seen a gradual move away from the warm glow of incandescent light, to the ugly pinkish hues of CFL, to the strange blueish-white point-source light produced by LEDs. And frankly, none of those are nearly as cool as what… |
October 31st, 2009
Yikebike: the Sitting Man’S Segway
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The YikeBike is a new electric transport vehicle coming from New Zealand. The compact personal transporter features an innovative design that can speed you along through city streets and country roads without ever requiring you to stand up. The sit-down electric YikeBike tops out at 20km/hr (appx. 12 MPH). An… |
October 28th, 2009
