Priced at Rs.41, 500, HCL ME Series 40 Notebook has various other features. It has a 15.4-inch XGA TFT LCD Panel display with resolution of 1280x 800. The greened-out notebook is powered by the Intel Core 2 Duo processor and loaded with up to 4 GB DDR2SDRAM, 320GB SATA Hard Disk and Windows 7 Professional.

It also comes with Bluetooth and a 1.3 MP webcam, Split Me, Lock Me, Secure Me and Encrypt Me applications.

The Novothink Surge is the first Apple-certified solar iPhone charger case to hit the market. This handy little item will extend 3G talk time by four hours and audio playback by 20 hours simply by keeping it exposed to sunlight. It has an integrated lithium-ion battery that stores excess energy as well and a LED display to keep you informed on the device’s status.

The Surge is now on the market and costs $79.95 for the iPhone model and $69.95 for the iPod Touch version.

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 for hundreds of cycles.

The washing machine pours the beads into the washing drum when the clothes have been slightly moistened. They are small enough to get into every crevice and remove dirt and stains. Then when the cycle is done the tiny beads are drained out just like water would.

The Xeros waterless machine could hit the market as soon as 2011. No price has been set yet.

Source: Guardian

The Carpuccino is the brainchild of the people behind the BBC science show Bang Goes The Theory.

Nick Watson, the show’s producer, said, “Coffee, like wood or coal, has some carbon content so you can use it as a fuel. The coffee needs to be very dry and in pellets to allow the air to move through the pile of coffee as it burns. The brand doesn’t matter.”

The Carpuccino will be on display at the upcoming Big Bang Science Fair in Manchester.

The Naite, being an eco-friendly phone, comes equipped with a plastic housing that is 50% post-consumer recycled. The charger is also more efficient and offers reduced power of .03W in the standby mode. It supports Bluetooth and wireless Bluetooth headsets. The Naite has a 2-megapixel camera at the rear and supports video recording as well. It has 600-hours of standby time on which decreases to 583-hours while on a 3G network. The talk time on 2G is up to 13 hours 45 minutes and 4 hours 30 minutes on 3G.

Last Week, Energy Secretary Steven Chu, announced the additional funds stating, “This is about unleashing the American innovation machine to solve the energy and climate challenge, while creating new jobs, new industries and new exports for America’s workers.”

The funds are being directed into three specific research categories including: thermodevices, energy storage and electrical power technology.

LG’s GD510 phone is a great step in the right direction for eco-friendly phones. It comes with a decent sized 3-inch WQVGA touchscreen display, a 3-megapixel camera, and a 8GB of storage space for captured pictures and videos. Additional features include a brushed aluminum case, and an optional solar panel that will replace the battery cover and can be used to charge the phone’s battery.

The LG GD510 has many innovative features:

- Built-in solar panel for charging the phone
- 10 minutes of sun = 2 min 15 sec of talk time or 180 min standby
- Eco-calculator shows amount of CO2 emissions saved by using solar power
- Plugged in, the phone has a reminder to unplug the charger once it’s fully charged
- Packaging is made from recycled paper & soy ink
- The phone does not contain any polyvinyl chloride (PVC)

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 time,” Teter told People Magazine. “Mom has huge garden and fruit trees, and I love it there. I helped my parents get solar power this past year, and I’ll be running on solar and hopefully wind power with my yurt so I can be completely off the grid.”

To congratulate her for her recent Olympic medal, sponsor Samsung donated $30,000 to her Hannah’s Gold charity, where Hannah sells maple syrup to raise money in Kenya and Haiti.

The solar panel is comprised of 75mA crystalline solar cells which charge the 800mAh Li-ion battery within the device. The battery takes about ten hours to charge to full when its empty, and it can charge in all daylight conditions. The Pico comes with a USB cable if you want to charge it from a USB port. It takes only 3 hours to fully charge the device from empty by USB.

Ten finalists were selected out of the hundreds of designers that applied with first place going to AUG/Living Goods Program. This concept is a smart phone app that scans bar codes of produce and gives the user relevant sustainability data on the item like how far away the food has traveled to get to you, if it’s in season locally as well as other data.

Judges lauded the app design for being both practical and mobile, a rarity in most other entries this year.