Tag: Cell Phones - Page 7
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ReCellular Spares Landfills From Over 1.6 Million Pounds of e-Wasted Cell Phones
We go through a lot of cell phones. And yesterday we noted that only around 10% of Americans recycle their cell phones. That's why the efforts of businesses like
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Sprint and Radioshack ex-CEOs Launch New Cell Phone Recycling Company
Americans buy around 140 million cell phones a year, replacing old phones an average of every 18 months. That means a whole lot of used cell phones - and a potential money maker, as two electronics company CEOs are hoping
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AT&T; Launches Cell Phone Charger with Zero Vampire Power Draw
Image via AT&T; AT&T; has announced a new charger coming to market soon, one that solves the problem of excess power consumption during charging. As we know, phone chargers - and most charger - draw a small amount of power from the outlet even when the
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Nokia Moving Into Kinetically Charged Cell Phones, Files New Patent
So far, kinetic charging for cell phones has been confined to the realm of external chargers
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TreeHugger has an iPhone App! Woot!!
You know how it feels to be separated from TreeHugger for too long. Your palms start to sweat, your legs get twitchy, you can't shake the feeling that there's something really important going down somewhere in the world and you don't know what it is...
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NOAH iPhone App Lets You Document and Explore Local Wildlife
There's a reason to practice your iPhone photography skills like Trevor Reichman has done - more and more citizen scientists apps are popping up that put you in the driver's seat for documenting the flora and fauna around your for
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Is Your New Phone (Apple iPhone, Perhaps) Cancer Causing, Too?
I couldn't tell if it was my better body awareness from yoga or my generally strong cell phone neurosis (long live the bees!). Every time I held my phone up to my ear, I felt a vibratory drum-like
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With 5 Billion Subscriptions, Mobile Industry Has Emissions On Par With Auto and Aviation Industries
Worldwide, there are 4.6 billion cell phone subscriptions and it's expected to hit 5 billion during this year according to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). With developing countries leapfrogging from
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GreenMap's New iPhone App Helps You Find The Green Hotspots Nearby
We love GreenMap. It's a crowd-sourced map of all the great green stuff in cities all over the world. Launched last year, the online resource now is available as an iPhone app. GreenMap allows users to chart and search green events,
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Sharp Taking Solar Powered Cell Phones Global
Sharp's solar powered cell phone debuted in the Japanese market just shy of a year ago, and after experiencing a boom in popularity, the company is ready to take its solar powered phone global, entering the fray of a rising number of
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Five-Year Phone Concept Phone Finally Hits Sustainable Design Points
Designer James Barber has come up with a concept phone for Nokia that we can really start to get on board with. Built with the dual problem of embodied energy - the energy it takes to make the device itself - and recyclability
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The Causeworld Mobile App: Go Shopping, Earn Karma, Save the Planet
Image: Causeworld It's called Causeworld and here's how it works: download the app for your iPhone or Android device, walk into a store and "check in" on your phone (geotagging helps determine where you're at), as you earn Karmas you spend them on causes
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Seriously? Battery Powers Mobile Phone By Sipping on Soda
The latest in crazy designs to run on alternative power sources comes out of designer Daizi Zheng, who has dreamed up a reusable-bottle-meets-cell-phone concept. The user adds a can of soda, and can talk on the phone for four
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New Green Touch Consortium Wants to Make Mobile Networks 1000x More Efficient
Mobile networks coming together to be green and 1000 times more energy efficient? Well, that's the goal of Green Touch, anyway. Green Touch is launching today as a global consortium organized by Bell Labs. It is bringing together
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CES 2010 - Solar Powered iPhone Skins Getting More Popular
One of our very popular posts from this fall was news about solar powered skins for iPhones and iPod Touch products. And when I say popular, I mean REALLY popular. It's clear this is the kind of thing readers can get excited
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CES 2010 - Recellular Boosting Positive Impression of Buying Used Phones
With all these brand spankin' new cell phones set up at the booths of CES, with the bright lights of the tradeshow floor glinting off their scratch-free surfaces, it's easy to ignore the idea of buying used. That's why we're
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CES 2010 - Nokia's New Mobile Game and Improved Travel Guide Highlight Green
Nokia earned the top spot on Greenpeace's latest Green Electronics Guide, earning props for their systematic elimination of hazardous materials from their products, reducing the size of their packaging, selecting recycled and
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Cell Phone Radiation Could Improve Memory, Fight Alzheimer's
My 91 year old mom has been on my case for years to get a cell phone, saying all the other cool moms have them, but I resisted because she couldn't figure out the on and off button when we tried it once. Now it turns out it might actually have been a
