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Sprint to release the Samsung Replenish in Raspberry Pink on July 24th
Despite an original launch timeframe of June 2011, it looks like the Raspberry Pink Samsung Replenish smartphone will be coming available in just a few days from now. The latest word is coming from the folks at Sprint who have recently posted a message on their community forums. In short; “Beginning on July 24, consumers more »
Samsung Replenish available May 8 for $49.99 from Sprint
Sprint is holding an event today that focuses on making the mobile phone industry more eco-friendly. As part of that event, the carrier officially revealed the Samsung Replenish. It will go on sale for $49.99 on a two-year contract on May 8. The $10 monthly premium data charge that Sprint has instituted on all smartphones is being waived for the Samsung Replenish.
Oddball Tech: Facebook is infallible, save the earth with paint, and Nintendo sells you chocolate
Weirdness and technology go together like peanut butter and jelly. President Obama’s not the only powerful person using social networking. Pope Benedict XVI is down with the kids and is now has a presence on Facebook. You know what he’ll find there? Environmental groups who will be talking about a plan to save the earth using paint. He might even find groups dedicated to the new Punch-Out!! game for the Nintendo Wii that are baffled by Nintendo’s chocolate venture.
Got an old gadget? Recycle it at RadioShack and get a gift card
RadioShack has been doing their part to help the environment by taking in your old electronics, and giving you some cash credit for it. Until recently, the trade-in program has been on a pretty limited basis, but now, RadioShack made it available in all of their 4,400 stores. In case you don’t have a participating more »
Celebrate St. Paddy’s Day with these 5 Green Gadgets!
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.
The newest Green Supercar from Honda
The idea of having hydrogen powered cars is nothing new: the theory has been around pretty much since World War II. However, there have always been several flaws in the practicality of using hydrogen as a source of power. It is expensive and energy consuming to make it usable. Hydrogen is also not widely available, the batteries are bulky, the cars are expensive and they usually look horrible. So why has Honda made a hydrogen supercar?
The FC Sport revealed at the LA Auto Show is the pinnacle of design and hydrogen technology, combining the two in some environmentally chic blender in a way that has a product that can still classify as a supercar. This is, as Honda so aptly put it, “a glimpse of the future of the supercar.”
Help the environment, buy an energy efficient TV
It is important that we all do our part to help the environment. Our normal, daily activities are soon becoming more and more energy efficient. Recently, the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) has issued a new guideline for all TV manufacturers to follow. This new guideline is set to reduce the amount of energy each TV uses by 30% in efforts to help save the environment and will save you some money on the monthly electric bill.
With the holiday season approaching quickly, many consumers will be shopping for brand new HDTVs, whether it be for themselves or a gift for a loved one. These TVs, as you can imagine, use up an enormous amount of electricity – some TVs can use up to 500 kWh annually. Continued after the break.
Samsung shows off new green phone
A lot of cell phones are thrown away every year (I know I’ve thrown out a few), and eventually end up in landfills, not decomposing like they should be, due to the plastic they are made of. Well, that’s what’s happening now. Samsung wants to change that, though. Samsung has unveiled the E200 Eco, a more »
Where’s the butter? New Samsung Corn phone
Plants are more versatile than we give them credit for, you can make clothes with them, build with them, use them as ornaments and if your really radical you can eat them. However up until know you would have even thought of making phones with them, and its all thanks to Samsung who have unveiled more »
Samsung intro’s the eco-friendly, 1TB EcoGreen F1 hard drive
Samsung has announced their new EcoGreen F1 hard drive touting a full one terabyte of storage capacity and environment friendly features. This eco-friendly hard drive can be used as either an external or internal hard drive for desktop PCs and thanks to the large capacity it would be well utilized for surveillance applications as well more »















