Category Archives: Gadgets and Tech
These days there are so many products being introduced that sometimes it makes you stop and wonder, do we really need these things? One of them is the air freshener jazz. There are so many of them that it’s like choosing a perfume for your walls. And most of them are poisonous anyway, so this little GreenAir purifier can be a solution. It is an ecological air purifier concept that uses an innovative idea of purifying the indoor environment with living plants. The concept uses the idea of plants that can effectively purify air in a natural way.
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After hybrid cars being the talk of the town, now mobile companies are getting interested. Nokia has launched a green phone concept that will be made of recycled aluminum. Engineered by Luis Barcelo the phone is called Nokia Ink 01 and has a very futuristic appeal to it. Idea behind this is to reduce the energy consumption wherever you use your cell phone. A special feature is that it carries an extra low power consumption E-Ink digital display. All parts of the cell phone structure are constructed from recycled aluminum being capable to be constantly recycled while using low energy consumption. The Nokia Inc 01 has its main key pad coming with a capacitive sensor which appears to reduce the amount of separate parts. It is equipped with a mini OLED display that makes it possible for the user to take pictures and revise them while consuming little energy.
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Alcatel-Lucent launched a very innovative high-capacity and eco-efficient digital subscriber line platform which enables service providers to deliver tomorrow’s applications over their installed copper base, all while consuming up to 25% less power compared to conventional DSL solutions. This is achieved by leveraging the reduced power consumption of its latest generation of DSL line cards. Alcatel-Lucent’s green DSL provides operators with a unique, end-to-end solution, enabling a significant reduction of the modems’ power consumption across a service provider’s subscriber base without causing any line stability issues. This launch supports Alcatel-Lucent’s comprehensive eco-sustainability program that includes using innovation to build smarter, eco-sustainable networks at all layers with a framework that addresses hardware, software, and network and site innovation.
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These days, trade is not limited to one city or country or continent. In an attempt to promote business, executives of multinational companies need to fly from one place to another, thus resulting in enriching our environment too with more carbon footprints. But Marriott International has come up with a high-tech solution that will certainly not affect their business as well as our environment. They have just announced the installation of state-of-art high-resolution video conferencing systems in their hotels across 25 cities. Also since the economy is down, many global companies will favor such a move that will help them to cut back on costly overseas trips. Such global meetings will render a greener platform for improving business as people will travel shorter distances and easily connect with colleagues and clients around the world.
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Most of us tend to fill the kettle to the brim and then heat the water in it to make tea or coffee. This leads to a lot of wastage of water and electricity as we don’t always use up the water we heated. The Eco Kettle is the solution to this eternal problem. This seemingly normal kettle has two water chambers in it. One is the central reservoir that is filled to the brim, and there’s a central valve button in the lid to release only the amount of water you need to the second boiling chamber. This central valve lets you send one to eight cups of water in the boiling chamber and helps you save a considerable amount of water and electricity. Saving energy is a vital need in today’s world and the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) in UK stated “If everyone boiled only the water they needed to make a cup of tea instead of ‘filling’ the kettle every time, we could save enough electricity to run practically all the street lighting in the U.K”. The Energy Saving Trust also found that the Eco Kettle used 30% less electricity compared to other kettles.
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Sanyo has come up with yet another inspiring product. It is the eneloop lamp that can be used as a regular lamp or even a flashlight by just holding it vertically or EVEN as a healing lamp by switching it from white to blue lighting. It can be charged wirelessly and two eneloop AA batteries are enough to power the futuristic device for 6 hours in flashlight mode, up to 45 hours in white light mode and up to 16 hours in blue light mode. Also a lot of products have been launched as part of eneloop like the solar cell-incorporated eneloop solar charger, eneloop solar light with USB power port, rechargeable hand warmer eneloop kairo, rechargeable portable warmer eneloop anka, rechargeable lap blanket eneloop soft warmer, eneloop mobile booster – a charger set and lithium-ion batteries equipped with a USB power port, eneloop air fresher – a portable air purifier equipped with the virus washer technology and the eneloop bike – an electric hybrid bicycle. Wow! That is some serious eneloop green stuff.
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Yahoo’s plans for a new redesigning of its data center will help the company achieve carbon neutral status without resorting to purchasing carbon offsets. The forthcoming data center lets outside air cool the servers all the time. This idea is based on the design of a chicken coop and Yahoo is planning to get it patented as well. Data centers are very important but they are also high energy consumers which is making big software companies like Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are trying to design them in such a way that they are very energy efficient and less burden on the limited resources of our planet. The new data center is going to be in Lockport, New York which is just outside of Buffalo.
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Flashdrives are undoubtedly the most convenient way to carry data around and they are looking funkier these days. The latest to the list is the Backspace key Flashdrive. This hand carved backspace key, is glued to a flashdrive to carry data back and forth. It just looks good and has a capacity of 2GB USB available for $16.
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Brit designers Jimmy Loizeau and James Auger have come up with an amazing way to get rid if Bugs and flies. They have created a LED clock that munches on bugs and then converts their dead bodies to energy to run the clock. This wacky gizmo has a sticky roller covered in flypaper that rolls to drop the dead bugs in a microbial fuel cell. The bacteria then party on the remains of the bug and this chemical changes result in the generation of energy to run the clock. A very innovative but sort of creepy way to keep time I feel.
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All good habits begin from home. So instead of blaming the government and other citizens of this planet for abusing energy consumption, why not equip our own den with ZigBee’s Green Power spec. The company is rolling out an energy-harvesting specification that would enable switches and sensors equipped with its wireless home-control technology to operate without batteries and without a connection to a home’s power lines. This means that ZigBee-enabled on-wall light switches, dimmers, motion detector, moisture sensors and door sensors will be able to harvest energy from small solar cells, from heat or from the conversion of mechanical energy to electrical energy. To make it simpler, let me explain to you with an example. To put on light, we press a button. This action will be converted into a small electrical charge, which in turn would power an embedded ZigBee transmitter. And the ZigBee signal would then turn on ZigBee-equipped lights.
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