We’ve had solar powered calculators for years now so, in retrospect, it was only a matter of time until a company brought the idea of solar power to a low energy device such as a keyboard and Buffalo have done exactly that with their new Wireless Media Keyboard which comes …

Whilst trawling various product design sites this weekend we happened across a series of interesting proposals concerning the use of bone (specifically waste bovine bone) in which the designer, known merely as Andrew, puts forward a range of ideas for the use of what he terms as ‘Sustainable Ivory’ – …

Orange have unveiled their latest phone charging concept in the form of the Orange Dance Charge, an armband based charger which conjures its charge from kinetic energy facilitating the gaining of free electricity through bodily movement such as dancing and jogging – though, of course those of you who can …

Firstly, to put our usual flippancy aside, we should make it clear that there’s no signs that any forthcoming electric car from James ‘whatever I touch turns to gold’ Dyson will in fact clean roads whilst in transit but it is known that Sir Dyson is now working on developing …

It seems that, in the world of consumer electronics, just about everything worth its salt is either pink or ‘green’ these days (the latter serving to help the environment, the former just looking gaudy) and there’s no doubt that NEC’s new MultiSync 19” EA19M LCD Display very much falls into …

Samsung have announced two new, seemingly entry level ‘green’ handsets in the form of their SGH-W510 and the SHG-F268 cell phones which feature a range of eco-friendly manufacturing considerations such as, in the case of the W510, the use of bio-plastic materials obtained from corn (the W510 will be the …

Best Buy have just announced that they will be testing a new electronics recycling program in 117 of its stores in the US which, in serving to compliment Best Buy’s current recycling scheme, will ‘help consumers take environmentally-responsible action with their old electronics’.

Thanko have announced a new mini DAP which, thanks to coming with integrated flip-out solar panel, offers the facility to listen to your favourite tunes on the move courtesy of free ‘green’ energy – though the device can also be charged via the device’s USB port should you live in …