Pencil Printer

Take all of those chewed up pencil stubs and put them to good use with the Pencil Printer.($TBA)  This ingenious electronic takes your old pencil stubs and separates the graphite from the pencil to use it for ink in the printer. The printer also uses the erasers to erase things you have printed as well.  While the exact method of how this printer works is not really clear, but the idea is great and hopefully it will be on the market soon. 

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The Apple iPad

The Apple iPad ($499) is not just an iPod touch on steroids it is also an environmentally friendly electronic that will not add to the growing amount of e-waste on earth. For example the iPad's stunning 9.7 inch LED Multi-Touch display with IPS technology allowing it to be viewed from a 178 degree angle is also made of entirely arsenic free glass over a mercury-free LCD display. The entire iPad is BFR and PVC-free two of the more harmful and harder to recycle components of e-waste. Additionally the entire aluminum and glass enclosure is 100% recyclable. So get on the Apple email list so you can order one of these environmentally electronics as soon as they are available.

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The Intel Home Dashboard Concept

The Intel Home Dashboard Concept ($TBA) uses an Intel Atom processor to run the low-powered central control center of your future smart house.  This 11.5 inch OLED touch screen connects to all your smart appliances, plugs and electric utility meters and sensors too keep track of your abode's energy use.  By clicking the Hello/Goodbye switch toggles between your presets for when you are home or away, awake or asleep to help maximize your energy usage when you need it.  This energy efficient touch screen even lets you see where energy is used and helps you reduce it using your current utility rates usage and billing.
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Horizon's Hydrofill

The future of charging is almost here thanks to Horizon's Hydrofill a home-use fuel cell system for charging small electronics.($TBA)  The hydrofill achieves this amazing feat by extracting hydrogen gas from water and then holds it in Hydrostik cartridges made of metal alloy to absorb the hydrogen.  Then a MiniPak can recharge your usb powerd devices like cellphones and ipods.  Horizon also has a AA charger you can use with the hydrogen system so even more of your devices can run on green power.  The hydrogen cartridges can be charged with a solar panel or wind turbine.

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Nextar Christmas Digital Frame Ornament.

Give an ornament that changes through the years along with you memories, the Nextar Christmas Digital Photo Frame Ornament ($19.99).  The 1.5 inch screen uses 65,000 colors to show off the 60 JPEG or BMP files you can load on with the included mini USB cable.  The ornament is powered by only 2 AAA batteries and can be put in auto slideshow mode, manual slides show or date and time display.  So order one today and keep all of your christmas memories together on your tree.

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Incase Bamboo Slider

Get your favorite iPhone fanatics an Incase Bamboo Slider ($34.95) an eco-friendly case. The Bamboo Slider is made up 40% of reclaimed bamboo shards from sources like scaffolding and chopsticks. The strength of bamboo allows incase to provide the same level of protection as their other slider case while needing 40% less plastic than normally used. So order a few today and knock a couple of people off your christmas shopping list.

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Ultrasonic Jewelry Cleaner and DVD Cleaner

Get all of your favorite jewelry, timepieces and glasses ready for the holidays with the Ultrasonic Jewelry and DVD Cleaner ($49.95). The jewelry cleaner will also get all of your favorite Holiday DVDs ready for viewing this winter. This eco-friendly cleaner uses no harsh cleaning solutions or detergents just add tap water and everything looks as good as new. To make your cleaning even easier, there is a watch hanger and eyeglass basket plus 5 timed cycles. Get one today and get all your gear looking glitzy for these holidays without an ounce of chemicals.

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Premium 12-Bottle Wine Refrigerator

Great for your upcoming family get together or a great gift for a wine enthusiast in your family.  This silent refrigerator uses a thermoelectric cooling technology which is made up of no moving parts and contains no CFCs.  This allows you to put it in any room you want without disrupting your use of the room.  You can control the temperature to accomodate red wines or white wines.  The cold is kept in with heavy thermopane doors that help its energy efficiency.  The cooler also includes easy push button controls with a digital temperature display and 3 chrome pull out shelves with an interior light.  So pick one up today and start getting your favorite bottle ready for your favorite season.

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Belkin Conserve Surge Protector

Now your electric bills no longer have to be plagued with phantom power loss with the help of the Belkin Conserve Surge Protector ($42.98) This remote operated surge protector has 6 switchable outlets via the include remote and 2 outlets that are always on for devices that always need power. The remote helps you turn off power to devices like TVs that do not always need power. The remote can also control multiple conserve surge protectors on different channels. So start saving money today and help your environment.

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Audioengine P4N

The Audioengine P4N ($325) takes the award-winning sound of the P4 and wraps it in sustainable, eco-friendly bamboo. The darker tone of the bamboo is achieved not through toxic stains but instead the wood is heated under pressure causing the sugar in the bamboo to become "carbonized" and darken the wood to a caramel tone. Then the wood is sealed with hand-rubbed water-based satin polyurethane. The P4N speakers are lead free and include only environmentally-friendly binders, resins and formaldehyde-free adhesives. When the P4N is in standby mode it meets all of the ENERGY STAR requirements. A limited amount of plastics is used in the P4N speakers and they are packaged with easy to recycle materials. Now your music can be listened to stylishly, sustainably and with award-winning sound.

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32" Samsung LED HDTV

There is nothing better for football season than an HD flat panel TV to make you feel like you are on the field for every yard. This Samsung LED HDTV offers breathrough high contrast picture quality for more natural colors and it packs all this technology into an ultra-slim 1.2" deep design. Which can then be mounted just 2 inches away from the wall. Not only does this TV use up less space but it also uses 40% less power than conventional LCD TVs and is mercury free. So watch more of your favorite team's games this fall while using less electricity, leaving you with more money for chips and dip.

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SONY Reader Daily Edition

Tired of paper cuts and never having all the books you want with you? Then the SONY Reader Daily Edition ($400) finishes off the Reader family with a wireless, 3G capable version that can acess Sony's eBook store from anywhere with the help of AT&T mobile broadband network. The eBook store offers not only books but newspapers and magazines. If you don't want to download you books you can transfer all, PDF, EPUB, Word, BBeB and other text files via USB cord. The 7 inch touch screen allows easy navigation and the ability to view 30-35 lines of text in high contrast and 16 tones of grayscale. The eBook has an aluminum body and built in cover to keep all 1,000 books held in the built in memory safe. So curl up this fall with your favorite tree friendly eBook in any shade of gray you would like.

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EarthDrive 8 GB

After fifteen years of R & D the EarthDrive ($35.99) is the world's first earth-friendly USB drive. It is made using the most bio-recycled plastics possible with the help of its unique design. Also the housing is 100% recyclable thanks to its bio-recycled plastics. To further help reduce its carbon footprint a portion of the EarthDrive sales go towards planting new trees through the American Forests Partnership. The EarthDrive is also one of the most durable USB drives on the market with a specially designed housing that keeps all vital flash components safe from water, dust and impact. Any porton of the 8 GB drive can be password protected with the built in security software. So keep your information safe while keeping the earth safe with the ATP EarthDrive.

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Photo Fest

Already planning your wedding for next summer? Check out Photo Fest to get all the candid memories you can handle without using wasteful disposable cameras. Photo fest rents out Canon A590 IS point and shoot cameras which boast 8.0 megapixels, 4x optical zoom and optical image Stabilization. The DIGIC III Image Processor and face detection results in beautiful crisp images even in low light conditons thanks to their motion detection technology. The cameras come with 1 GB SD cards so you can hold 460 photos that can be reviewed on the 2.5 inch LCD screen. You can get 5 cameras for $145 and you get to keep them for 5 days so you can capture all the pre and post wedding photos you could ever want to look at. Using photo fest gets you more photos at a higher quality than disposable cameras and it helps cut down on the 30 million disposables that are used once then discarded. Also after the photos are taken they are put up on Smugmug.com so you can chose only the photos you want instead of wasting the energy, chemicals and paper to print all the photos taken. So save the earth and save the memories with Photo Fest at your next wedding or special event.


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Sony Ericsson C901 Green Heart Phone

The C901 GreenHeart is part of Sonys new lines which decreases the environmental impact of the phone, while still delivering the same level of quality and style. A big part of there strategy is eliminating the use of unwanted substances from the items production and design. They also have included a manual in the phone to save on larg paper manuals few people read. The body of the phone is made up with recycled plastics and the screen is energy efficient to save battery life. The color of the phone is created with waterborne paint. The combination of all these changes results in a 15% decrease in CO2 emissions during production.

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U6V Bamboo

Bamboo was an easy choice for Asus new U6V ($1,999) once they realized the incredible strength to weight ratio which rivals many metals. Bamboo is always highly biodegradable and regrows on its own in three years unlike the metal and plastic used on many other notebooks. To test the durability of their new bamboo notebook they took it to an elevation of 29,028 feet at the peak of Qomolangma and the laptop performed with no problems. The bamboo also makes every Asus Laptop unique since no two pieces of Bamboo are the same.

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Voltaic Solar Bags

The Voltaic Solar Bags have a solar panel built into the exterior of the bag which are lightweight tough and waterproof.  The Voltaic Generator ($499) produces 15 watts which is enough to fully charge a laptop after a day of direct sunlight.  The bags also include a battery pack which holds any power which is not used for charging a device, so that it can be used later.  The battery pack can also be charged using an AC or car charger to give you even more power on the go.  The bag comes with 11 adaptors for cell phones and laptops and if those do not fit your device than usb and car chargers can also be used to connect to the Voltaic.  The bags fabric is even made of recycled PET (soda bottles) which is both water resistent and durable.

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Western Digital Caviar Green

The Caviar Green Drive ($100-$139) has 40 percent reduced power consumption compared to other desktop drives. This allows the drive to be 4-5 watts more efficient than standard desktop drives. Although 4-5 watts does not sound like much, over a year of use it reduces C02 emissions that would be produced making that power by 13.8 kilograms per year. That is the same amount of emissions that would be saved if someone did not use there car 3 days every year. If you expand this over huge corporations with hundreds of thousands of computers you can see what a difference this can make to our environment. The drives also produce less heat and noise making them perfect for external drives because they do not need a fan. Not having a fan in an external drive can save $14.00 per year in electricity costs.

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