Tag: green
VentureOne three-wheeler hybrid car available in 2009
Hybrid cars are getting a huge look-in at the moment on Tech Digest, and with environmentalism becoming bigger and more important in technology with every passing year, expect to see more of them.
This VentureOne hybrid car comes from Venture Vehicles, and whilst it’s still the same size of a Mini Cooper, it only has three-wheels and is completely environmentally-green. Able to squeeze in two passengers…
Save money and trees with Toshiba's eco-friendly toilet. Yes, really
Toshiba? Developing eco-friendly toilets? Now that’s under the dictionary definition of ‘WTF’.
With an annual power consumption reduced by 55% compared to similar toilets, the bidet-style model from ol’ Tosh manages to be eco-friendly by instantly warming water for the bidet-functions rather than constantly keeping it warm like most bidets. Added to that, the heat loss isn’t as evident in Toshiba’s toilet…
Sony to give a MASSIVE 1% of their Vaio FZ Graphic Splash Eco Edition laptop sales to green charities
Nice product photography doesn’t detract from just how lame Sony’s claim is that they’re helping the environment with these Vaio laptops.
They’ve just announced the Vaio FZ Graphic Splash Eco Edition laptops to help quench Greenpeace’s rumours that they’re the least green company around save the environment, and admittedly are completely reaching for ideas. Claims that the ‘slim design for minimum use of natural resources’…
B&Q aims to save the world with their green gadgets for the home
I’ve heard on the grapevine that it’s Energy Saving Week come the 22nd of October, and B&Q has jumped onto the bandwagon for a timely ‘green gadgets’ offering to the public. We don’t normally pander to PR blitzes, but when it’s going to help save the environment, we’re only happy to oblige.
The first green gadget is the Owl Monitor, which for £49.84 (ooh, specific), will check the amount your electrical appliances are costing you, by showing on the LCD display how much energy you’re guzzling, the cost…
Dell shoot their mouths off by claiming to become carbon neutral
Dell is really overhauling their fuddy-duddy image, not just by painting their latest XPS notebooks in bright colours, but by recently pledging to become carbon neutral.
If they succeed, they’ll be the the ”first major computer manufacturer” to do so, and plan on neutralising ‘the carbon impact of its worldwide operations’ by introducing a new ‘Plant a Forest for Me’ scheme where…
YouTube Video Of The Day – Morph turns green
The Friends of the Earth have got their own YouTube channel and have loads of videos uploaded to encourage you to be a bit greener. One cracker is one featuring the iconic Morph (if he tells me to be green I will! But then again, I’d burn tyres if Morph told me to). Click here to see more videos from Friends of the Earth.
Wicked Lasers' wicked Photonic Disruptor laser is, well, wicked. Innit.
Fancy a LASER BEAM with your, err, laser?
The Photonic Disruptor from Wicked Lasers must be aimed at serious laserphiles, as I can’t imagine too many hooligan kids standing on street corners, or your average Fabric nightclub goer would be willing to cough up the $599.99 they’re asking for one. The latest in their line-up, it’s actually being sold to law…
Google to invest $10 million into green start-ups
Perhaps scared of the recent backlash they’ve been receiving from the internet-using public, Google have announced they’ll be investing $10 million into green start-ups with a new scheme dubbed RechargeIT….
Fujitsu Siemens launches eco-friendly Scaleo PC Green Edition
Sadly, Fujitsu Siemens hasn’t opted to make its new eco-friendly computer ACTUALLY green, which would’ve been a neat design touch. So it’s a regular grey-box PC that won’t be causing you sleepless nights over whether to display it in the living room (clue: No).
But its appeal goes beyond mere looks. Apparently, the Green Edition Scaleo’s software has been developed to reduce its power consumption, while its internal citcuit board has been manufactured in an eco-friendly stylee to reduce the PC’s carbon footprint.
Bet Larry David thinks the new Toyato Plug-in HV car is pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, preeeetty good!
What’s good for Larry David is usually good enough for us. That’s why we converted to Judaism, innit. Admittedly up until now I’ve always been a little hesitant about Toyota’s Prius car, even though Larry is obsessed with his – maybe it’s just the slight stigma that goes along with the car, that you’ll constantly be branded an eco-friendly twat.
For those who adore their Prius and want to get into Larry’s inner circle (I’d suggest going bald first), but think the car could be even more green, you’ll be jumping in your hemp clothing for joy at the news that Toyota has just announced a plug-in hybrid vehicle, the Plug-in HV…
