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Design Competition for Greener Gadgets and 12 world saving thoughts

Greener Gadgets - Power Hog

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The world is heading towards a greener environment and slowly and steadily finally we have started to recognize the value of eco friendly environment, which will surely take us a long way. Our intelligent designers are working really hard to give us a green environment by crafting such gadgets that are of utmost importance and are eco- friendly too.

Greener Gadget design competition was conducted just to encourage such designers to give the world with some good ideas. It’s the second time that a Design Competition for Greener Gadgets has been held. Many designers participated and thousands of viewers too came as spectators and voted for the best eco friendly gadget. Indeed the designers did some good brainstorming and the aspiring designer presented their best eco friendly ideas.

The winners would be declared sometime early next week for the competition and checking and evaluating the best green gadget is still under process. According to one of the judges, they are having a tough time as many of the entries are too good and selecting one out of them is quite difficult.

These 12 ideas for saving the world and Mother Nature with green gadgets are really interesting and eye catchy, which requires not only your attention but cooperation to get the aspired green world. We found them really amusing and thought of sharing them with you.

  • Blink Controller
  • Power-Hog Energy Meter
  • Inlet-Outlet Wall Plug
  • Zeer Cooler
  • CompostAll Food Disposal
  • Beware Water Meter
  • Hard drive USB Storage Device
  • Indoor Drying Rack
  • PpMm Shreddable Paper
  • Takeup Reusable Computer Housing
  • Tweet-a-Watt
  • Wind-Helmet as Power Generator

It was the Core 77′s second such competition and they have maintained to come again next year. So all those designers could not participate or could not win and want to participate again have a good one long year in front of them to prepare their green ideas.

Latest Bose for your car that will save Energy

February 26, 2009 by  
Filed under Eco-Friendly Gadgets

Bose Sound System

 

During one of the press releases by Bose, a detailed information about the company’s next project has been disclosed, which seems to be another great news for all ecologists. So finally even music can be energy efficient which gives you a chance to debut the life of an environmentalist and follow green. Now all the eco friendly cars get an opportunity to get fitted this energy saving Bose music system for extraordinary music experience.

The best part of this new eco friendly Bose music system is that it is smaller in size to 30% and even lighter by 40%. Isn’t it just the perfect thing to happen to your green car? Well, the best part is yet to come. This new Bose music system saves 50% of the energy it used to consume previously. That means to end up saving half of the amount of energy your car music system consumed earlier and too without any type of compromises with the sound quality.

This energy saving Bose system has kept in mind the future eco-friendly car, 2011 Chevy Volt while its design. We can even say energy saving music system of Bose has been designed categorically for the same car only. It seems that a lot of hard work and research has been put by the company to create a smaller and lighter model of eco-friendly Bose sound system to ensure that it fits the most sophisticated and efficient cars. Everything about the conventional sound system has been modified right from ground up in order to individually look after each and every aspect of the new eco friendly Bose sound system.

There is no doubt that the company has come up will a real good idea and will go a long way in helping the environmentalists in keeping an eco friendly nature and our surroundings. Indeed some mature and responsible thinking from the company and surely some mature and environment loving people will only go for the latest energy saving model of Bose only to ensure that they do at least something for the Mother Nature.

Explore Latest Environmentally friendly gadget with Mini Hydro Clock

February 23, 2009 by  
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Mini Hydro Clock

 

Latest in the league of environmentally friendly gadgets is this extra ordinary Mini Hydro Clock that is not only a green gadget but an example of innovation and technology progressing at such a faster pace.

If you are wondering if this is a successor of one of the Ecologically friendly Clocks that was powered by water which we talked about before, then the answer is a yes and a no. Yes because the Mini Hydro Clock also uses liquids to work and “no” because the Mini Hydro Clock doesn’t necessarily have to use water as the liquid.

The Mini Hydro Clock is not a very big gadget. Almost 2.5 cm / 5 cm in dimensions. The Mini Hydro Clock displays the perfect time. Although you can’t set an alarm in the clock and it cant give you calendar or date information either.

It only displays the time and yet what makes it so unique is that it can work with any liquid, not just water. You can use juice, milk, beer, just about any liquid extraordinary time telling gadget.

Imagine a clock working with liquids as batteries! How cool it is. Indeed science and technology achievement for this futuristic clock. If you’d like to experiment with an eco-friendly clock, check out the Mini Hydro Clock, the green environmentally friendly time  telling device.

Now is the time to switch over to an eco-friendly futuristic world with the Mini Hydro Clock.

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What is so special about Benex USB Wind Up Eco Charger?

February 20, 2009 by  
Filed under Eco-Friendly Gadgets, USB Gadgets

Benex Windup USB Charger

 

A good question it seems to be because when there are so many poweredby sun and even hand- powered chargers available in the market, its just obvious to wonder what is so special about this Benex USB Wind Up Eco Charger that one should actually go for it.

Indeed it may look like any other ecological charger, but it do support a quality that makes it different from the rest and the best in the present market of eco chargers. That quality is that Benex USB Wind Up Eco Charger, unlike other ecological chargers does not support any internal battery. Now the question arises then how does this gadget works?

Benex USB Wind Up Eco Charger works with the aid of a USB socket that is built in to be employed directly to charge a gadget that have the similar feature of charging, i.e., such gadgets that are charged using a USB cable. Definitely it means that you can not charge the gadgets which do not have a USB cable to charge, but this one short coming can be let go when compared to other plus points.

Benex USB Wind Up Eco Charger produces more energy when compare with hand-chargers that are supported by batteries. Do we have here any guesses for how much more energy production? Don’t get amazed when I say 5 times!

Yes, Benex USB Wind Up Eco Charger produces as much as 5 times more energy than its counterpart. Definitely Benex USB Wind Up Eco Charger answers all the doubts and queries now that we came across initially. In fact its almost next to impossible to produce such huge amount of energy and its this quality of Benex USB Wind Up Eco Charger that makes it so special.

So if you own this interesting Benex USB Wind Up Eco Charger, when all other batteries will discharge eventually, your gadget’s battery will last for really a long time. Indeed a special gadget!

A Garden clock that tells its time to go environmentally

February 19, 2009 by  
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Timeless Garden Clock

 

Are you eco friendly? Then this garden gadget should find a place for itself in your home. Designed by Tommaso Ceschi and Francesco Castiglione Morelli, the Timeless Garden Clock does not require any batteries to run on. And that doesn’t mean it has electrical cord plugged into the wall for access to electrical power.

This unusual gadget does not require a solar cell, battery or electrical power. It’s an extraordinary example of eco-friendly gadgets that have gained a considerable popularity with people. Definitely its not a new idea to create an eco-friendly Timeless Garden Clock, but this one is indeed unique in the way that it generates electricity to power the digital clock.

The Timeless Garden Clock is based upon the chemical reaction that happens between the organisms present in the soil that consequently produce a small electrical charge. These electric charges help to power the Timeless Garden Clock. As long as there are plants growing in the container’s soil, the device will generate electricity for the clock to operate.

And there’s always the extra benefit of more plants that consume carbon-dioxide and emit oxygen. That’s always good for the environment.

The Timeless Garden Clock can also easily match the decor in the interior of your home. You can always find a nice table book shelf or counter top to place it on. The Timeless Garden Clock is made up from recycled plastic material again helping to reduce the environmental impact.

Crafted as a pot or clock, whatever you want to call it, its not fashioned in the most elaborate way, yet is simple and sweet; just what every one is looking for to keep on one of the living room tabletops.

Look for the Timeless Garden Clock coming to the stores near you soon.