The much publicised Dell Studio Hybrid is a stylish and compact desktop PC, easily usable for watching TV as well as the usual PC-type tasks. The Hybrid PCs come in a range of personalised colours, including a bamboo skin. This eco gadget is being touted as they most energy efficient and greenest PC yet.
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The Energy Detective is an energy consumption monitoring eco gadget that joins a growing line of energy monitoring kits that are appearing on the market. However, where this kit really stands out is the option to have their own full-featured computer interface kit that gives you all kinds of statistics and monitoring information. Something missing from pretty much all other electricity monitoring kits.
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Now this is something you don’t see every day. Flash Sticks are a great eco-friendly technology, USB flash memory sticks literally housed in a stick! The wood for these flash sticks are harvested from silver birch, collected from the woodlands in Berkshire, England.
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Netgear is following D-link’s footsteps by releasing some eco-friendly gadgets, in this case networking routers. The WNR2000 Wireless Router and DGN2000 Wireless Router with built-in modem now feature convenient wireless on/off switches and EnergyStar rated power supplies to reduce energy costs. Additionally, the packaging is made from at least 80% recycled materials making it a particularly green gadget.
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Bamboo is becoming an increasingly popular material for use in green gadgets, and the Asus Bamboo Series Laptops are no exceptions. However, the use of the sustainable bamboo is only one of the two significant features of this laptop.
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In August I reported on the eco gadget, recycled plastic and recyclable EarthDrive, and this is another green gadget, Swedish USB Drive product that seems to be made of the same paper and wood chipboard that all Ikea furniture is made from! The recycled paper drive looks very plain and is otherwise the same as any other USB drive in terms of specification.
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Yet another eco friendly technology has hit the market, a low-powered PC called the Fit-PC Slim. Not a great name I admit, but clearly they want to emphasise their brand name in the product title. This PC is only 110 x 100 x 30mm in size, with many features you’d expect from a desktop PC. Oh, and it only uses 4 to 6 Watts of power!
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A Belgian company called United Pepper has released a couple of cute yet eco-friendly gadgets for the computer, namely the Lili Webcam and the Oscar USB Hub. United Pepper are delivering quality products using strong ethical and environmental principles. For example, the webcam and usb hub are made in Vietnam in safe working conditions at a fair wage using adult labour. The product itself is stuffed using naturally occuring Kapok tree fibre rather than petroleum-based polyurethane foam.
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With the majority of western homes having internet access these days, the majority of them will have “always on” broadband modem routers. Since these routers are on all day, every day, they are responsible for a surprising chunk of the energy costs. D-Link has announced that three of it’s new routers employ green ethernet technology that reduces power consumption by up to 40% compared with traditional routers.
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It seems that computer gadgets are a new target for the eco-friendly world, with low power PCs and disk drives using recycled materials. Today we get to see the ATP 8GB EarthDrive made from bio-recycled plastics (not sure what bio-recycled means compared to recycled!) for an attractive $48. The housing of the device is completely recyclable, although this is no good unless you want to throw the drive in the trash!
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