At first glance, it is hard to imagine a piece of electronics to be more energy efficient and environmentally friendly than something we have been using for centuries – books. Right off the bat, the Amazon Kindle is not better than books, but under the right conditions, these eBook readers by Amazon are better for more »

Monitors that don’t consume a whole lot of energy are starting to become more and more popular as the public becomes more energy conscientious. Today, the Japanese Acer released some information on two new monitors they started shipping today. The two new monitors include the Acer V193WBbmd and Acer V223WBbmd, both of which reduce power more »

Who says it’s not easy being green? With these five fun gadgets, being green has never been quite so red hot! Why not stop paying for batteries? How about going green while losing weight? Maybe you want to drive a Goblin car? Going green has plenty of upsides! First up, we’ve got the Solar Cell Strap. This one might be handy to have around for those times out hiking or bike riding when you can’t exactly plug in your charger in the nearest tree to charge up. The solar cell strap from Strap Ya runs (obviously enough) on solar power.

Samsung has recently unveiled the eco-friendly Blue Earth mobile phone and despite the fact that the back is a solar-panel the phone still offers a decent overall look. To begin with, the obvious look of the handset itself, the front side contains a large touchscreen display and the back features a solar panel that is reported to be capable of being able to make a call at just about any time.

The Blue Earth also features an “Eco Mode” that allows for items such as display brightness, backlight duration and Bluetooth to be run in a more energy efficient mode. Other eco-friendly features that you will find on the Blue Earth is the “Eco Walk” function that will count steps thanks to the built-in pedometer as well as an energy efficient charger. Of course, what eco-friendly phone would be complete without proper packaging, the Blue Earth is made from PCM (a recycled plastic) that is made from old water bottles and will ship in recycled packaging?

Want to save the earth and carry data with you? Well, since almost every company out there is on this green kick, here are eco-friendly USB drives and SD cards by ATP. ATP also showed off their System-in-Package technology for you rugged SD card carrying folks.

With the number of home-based entertainment and productivity applications that are running over home networks growing by leaps and bounds, some Wireless-G routers just can’t handle users’ demands.

Netgear saw this problem, and as a result, developed a new Wireless-N technology, which they feel is leaps and bounds above anything out there now. The “Green” crowd will also appreciate Netgear’s new products since they are eco-friendly.

PC Magazine is reporting that Dell plans to change its laptop displays to mercury-free and energy saving LED backlighting. Two thirds of their Latitude E-series will ship with the new displays by December 15th, and they plan to have 80% of their laptops include the new LED backlights. The transition is expected to be completed by 2010.

Dell has made their eco-friendly and small desktop PC available, the Studio Hybrid, which is not your typical low-cost mini PC. Dell has managed to offer the Studio Hybrid at a fair price, beginning at just $499, but also managed to get some decent specs in there as well as keep it both energy efficient more »

You know those Staples ads that say “now we have an ‘Easy’ button”. Man, I wish I had an easy button that worked, but there is an easier way to become more eco-friendly with the Ecobutton. This is an ecologically friendly USB add-on that you put on the computer, and will help you reduce energy.

All a user needs to do is plug it in, and it goes into operation if you are away from your desk for too long. I think we all know that we waste so much energy when our computer is idling, and the company says it “adds up over the years creating a hefty carbon footprint that could only be rivaled by Bigfoot-if he used a PC”.

Considering that everyone seems to be on an eco-trip since that An Inconvenient Truth was released, it’s nice to know that someone in the computer design world is also paying attention.

MSI, for example, has designed a great new eco-friendly motherboard known as the Wind Board.

It has a passive cooling system, which means that there is no need for those fans that you see on most motherboards. As you might have guessed, that means a lot less noise, like zero decibels worth. So not only is it ecologically sound, it is also less noisy. Who would have thought that the eco-friendly option could be the better one?