The three-year anniversary of the Museum of Art and Science’s Smart Home comes with a facelift for the 2,500 square foot Chicago demo residence. With the most current in eco-technology, the green smart home boasts a reservoir tank for collecting rain water. It’s powered solely by solar panels on the roof and wind turbine in [...]

Want to keep that creepy boogy man away without consuming energy? This solar powered window alarm by Smart Solar. Designed to be mounted onto the window to power itself through its built in solar panels, the solar powered window alarm has sensors that can be placed up to 60 cm away from the main unit. If [...]

The developed world has an extremely expensive sewage system that pipes the feces, urine and wastewater from every household to waste treatment centers – hardly a sustainable system. Ideally we should be doing things like capturing the urine and recycling it as a nitrogen and phosphorus rich fertilizer. This would also save water that would [...]

The new Xeros washing machine cleans clothes with only 10% of the water need from a regular washing machine and could reduce household bills by 30%. The key to the nearly waterless washing machine is tiny, nylon beads that help eliminate stains with a minimum of liquid. The 3mm-long beads are capable of being used [...]

Winning a silver medal in the Vancouver 2010 Olympics (as well as that sexy Sports Illustrated spread) has really put snowboarder Hannah Teter in the public eye. Now Teter is promoting her green way of living and telling People magazine about her life living in her parents yurt. “I will live in the yurt part [...]

It can be easy to forget how much energy your computer uses up every single day. After all, so many things accessed from your computer are free including all types of services like free news, videos, music, gaming, and even free web hosting. But the energy used to run computers as they perform daily tasks [...]

Have you ever had the joys of a hot shower tainted by the guilt of the energy you were using to indulge your aquatic pleasures? Well the EcoDrain is designed to reduce the energy lost in running hot water. The EcoDrain is a heat exchanger that attaches to your shower drain. Clean water is circulated [...]

How’s this for a slick-looking piece of eco-friendly machine? Here’s a laptop that uses biodegradable bamboo used in its construction. The U6V Bamboo notebook’s panel and palm rest is composed of bamboo and measures 15.2 x 9.6″ with a 12.1″ wide-screen with the standard 1280×800 resolution. The notebook uses a LED backlight wide panel for [...]

Okay, so we don’t know what to think about this one. We here at EcoTechNinja really, really want to promote environmentally-friendly products, but asking us to recycle our toilet paper might be pushing it. The jury’s still out. So Wallypop Toilet Wipes are supposedly stench free – though they don’t mention whether their lack of [...]

We Ninjas like to be trendy. And what better to be trendy and environmentally friendly at the same time? Designed and constructed using renewable materials, The Ray is one of the most slick and eco-friendly watches we’ve seen. The Ray by Quicksilver is the latest eco-friendly watch which has been designed with an eco-design as [...]