External hard drives are really common now, and with eco-friendly hard drives coming on to the market with lower power consumption, it’s great to see an external hard drive with an eco-friendly design. The Simple Drive was designed by Anne Dickhoff in a recent design competition. The Simple Drive is made from recyclable plastic, and...
ASUS have just officially announced the Eee Box 206, otherwise known as a “nettop” (short for internet desktop, as in netbook for internet notebook). The Eee Box 206 features a AMD ATI Radeon HD 3450 GPU graphics card with HDMI port. You also get a remote control and DVI-D output adaptor. You can tell that...
It appears that the Nintendo DS Lite was made for solar panels, as the Instructables author dark sponge has created a useful solar charger for the DS Lite. The top face has enough space for two 60x60mm solar cells side by side, each outputting 3V at 40mA.
The Western Digital My Book Studio Edition II is a new energy-saving RAID hard drive, specifically targeted at the Mac and the Windows market. It features a FireWire 800 and eSATA port for fast data access, such as for video, animation and audio applications. The drive unit is designed to use Western Digital’s GreenPower drives,...
The Nature Series USB Flash drive is an attractive USB drive made from PEFC certified (sustainable) natural hardwood. The USB drive is machined from European Maple, and can be made into a number of capacities from 32MB to 8GB. The USB drive and the manufacturer FlashBay are both completely carbon neutral too.
For those who don’t know, UPS stands for uninterruptible power supply. It’s essentially a power supply that will kick in if there’s a powercut or brownout (causes lights to dim due to a drop in voltage). If you have expensive computer equipment, it can help deal with surges and brownouts, keeping your systems running and...
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.
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...
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.
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...
