Green Technology on TFTS - Page 8

We’ve featured a fair few gadget chargers and portable emergency power supplies here on TFTS but few have been quite as distinctive or as low tech as this wholly unpretentious (read as ‘naff’) contraption from China that, rather than harnessing the sun’s rays or wind power for a free juice …

The LCD TV Association, a global non-profit, marketing trade association ‘formed to help the entire LCD supply chain, retail channel and consumers’ has announced its new GreenTV initiative which, it hopes, will serve to reduce the power consumption of LCD TV units by at least 30% and result in LCD …

Thanks to the clever chaps at the UK’s University of Warwick’s Warwick Manufacturing Group working in co-operation with PVAXX Research and Development Ltd disposing of your old, unwanted cell phone could not only become a great deal more eco-friendly but it could also result in a new flower strutting its …

There’s nothing worse than being caught out when one of your gadgets, such as your cell phone, suddenly runs out of charge – invariably just when you need it the most – hence the popularity of external power replenishment gadgets such as this portable gadget charger which servers not only …

Lawns are great but, for all the freedom to roam they grant you, your children and Schumacher the tortoise, they, much unlike my hair, unfortunately have the a somewhat annoying habit of growing – but, thanks to this Automower Solar Hybrid robot lawn mower you may never actually have to …

Aimed, we assume, at those looking for a device that will serve to inspire children whilst serving as a practical educational gadget, or perhaps just those who succumb to uncontrollable spasms at the very thought of toying with anything ‘green’, this Wind Generator Wind Turbine Kit is not without considerable …

Whilst by no means the first solar panel based gadget charger, the new Freeloader 8.0 from UK company Solar Technology is certainly a particularly compact device that, thanks to its impact resistant aluminium body, which serves to protect the pull-out solar panels when not in use, is designed to take …

Having only recently made the observation that bamboo appears to be rapidly becoming the new in-vogue material (on account of the material’s highly green credentials) in our post concerning Micheal Laut’s Bamboo Chute Smartphone concept along comes these rather snazzy Amadana PE-117 Ear Hang Bamboo Headphones.

With organic materials showing signs of somewhat of a resurgence, and with bamboo seemingly being the material of the moment (in no small part due to the fact that not only is it highly sustainable but is also extremely fast growing) it was only a matter of time till a …

We have to hand it to Prince Charles as, whilst he seems to court more than his fair share of bad press in the UK, he is rather more forward thinking than we’ve come to expect from the immediate royal family and now, apart from being the first royal to …

Keen to display its forward thinking, green credentials (having been usurped by the likes of Sony Ericsson in Greenpeace’s latest environmental poll) this concept cell phone from Nokia is not only made from environmentally friendly materials such as plant based plastics but it also comes with a solar panel bracelet …