Tag: Cell Phones - Page 12
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New E-Waste Problem: People Want to be Buried with their Cell Phones
How this slips past the EPA, gee, we'll never know.
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Gas Cubby A Great Last Minute Green Gift
Gas Cubby is a super cool iPhone app that helps users monitor their driving habits and get a little greener.
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Pedal-Per-Minute With Bike-Powered Cell Phone Charger
OK, so this isn’t break-through technology. But it does show the increasing availability of convenient alternative energy for charging gadgets.
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Mass Customization: Design Your Table on Your Cell Phone
TreeHugger readers don't appear to share my fascination with mass customization, the idea that you can order exactly what YOU want, made to your specifications, instead of having to take what Mr. Big Box offers. One recent extreme example was
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Grass Concept Phone: Pass or Fail?
When I first saw this grass phone concept pop up on Yanko Design's website, I did a half-scoff, a "yeah, sure," and clicked the red X on the page tab.
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Energy-Saving Charger Rescues Phones from Vampire Power
A new energy efficient charger claims to be the first "green" cell phone charger to hit the UK, and also says it has what it takes to end wasted power during cell phone charging. O2 has launched a universal cell phone charger that claims
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Using Sound Waves to Charge Cell Phones
We’ve seen ways to charge cell phones by fuel cells, sunlight, wind and even dancing. But what about with sound waves?
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Nokia Entering Smart Home Scene with Mobile Phone Project
The iPhone isn’t the only cell phone that will allow you to adjust your home’s power consumption. Nokia has entered the smart home scene and is working on providing a new option for controlling your smart home via your mobile phone.
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UbiGreen: Not Just Another Carbon Footprint Phone App (Honest!)
You gotta love it when your phone does work for you. Especially when that work it keeping your carbon footprint in check.
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Fuel Cell Stickers for Charging Gadgets
Slap a sticker on your cell phone and consider it charged. Well, that’s the goal of myFC, anyway.
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Cell Phone Industry Looks to Chargers for Reputation Repair
It’s quickly becoming common knowledge that the efficiency of a charger plays a big role in the energy consumption of a device. Energy Star makes this very clear, and so does Motorola's history in making efficient chargers for cell
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5 Surprising Aphrodisiacs, 7 Cell Phone Battery Tips and Buy Green: Beer
:: Titillating tomatoes? Erotic avocados? Check out which surprisingly sexy pantry ingredients act as natural aphrodisiacs.
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Yellowstone Proposes Expanding Cell Phone Coverage: Readers, Should National Parks Be Cell Phone Free Zones?
OK TreeHugger readers, confession time. How many of you bring your cellphone with you when you go hiking, or whatever you do when you want to get out into nature? I confess that I do it—if only because it was
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5 Android Apps that are Eco-Fun
We know iPhone apps are pretty dang popular. We also know there are quite a few that help us to go green. Also getting popular are apps for Google's G1 and Android phones. So what are our green options so far?
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Cell Phone Sales Slump Is Good Green News
Cell phone users have gotten into the habit of replacing their old cell phones every 14-18 months. And currently, there are more than 700 million used cell phones in the US. So when Reuters reports that cell phone sales will be
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Cool New Concept Phones Tweaked for Environmental Activism
Photo via Phillie Casablanca PCWorld has shown off the winners of the LG Japan Mobile Design Contest. Some of the designs are really innovative, and we thought it would be fun to take the brainstorming a step further and think about how environmental
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7 Ways To Save the World with Google Earth on Your iPhone
Google Earth is an excellent tool for environmental activism. And of course it was only a matter of time before they developed an app for the iPhone – putting the tool right in your pocket (if you have an iPhone, of course).
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Liquavista Launches ColorBright, Viewers Go "Ooooh, Aahhhh"
Recently we mentioned the money and research being poured into Liquavista’s electrowetting technology. It is a way of providing incredible displays that are ultra thin, flexible, and fast enough to display even video. The
