Green Technology - Electronics

Decorate the Outside of Your Home With Solar Lighting

A great and easy way to reduce your carbon footprint is to install solar driveway or garden lights on your property. Solar lights are a great way to cut down on your power bill and can be incredibly easy to install. When it comes to what type of solar light to use, standard solar garden lights work great on the driveway or in the garden, offering many benefits to the homeowner. Installing the lights is a piece of cake, and you can find a wide assortment to choose from at your local hardware or gardening store. The solar garden lights come ready made and simply need a patch of grass to stand in. You simply stick the stand, which is pointed at the end, into the grass where you want the light to go. During the day the solar light will absorb rays from the sun and at night will use the sun’s energy to emit light. These lights are a great way to maintain a certain look around your property, as they go great all around the exterior of the house. If you’re in the market for a more permanent solution, consider using the above ground solar driveway light. These solar ...

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Extending the Life of Your Electronics with Proper Care

Electronic devices are tricky to recycle (although there are programs), and they are not cheap. So extending their life makes sense from a waste standpoint as well as an economic one. Here are some tips and ideas on how you can get the most out of your electronic products. 1. Keep Them Clean The manual says to do this, but how many of us ignore the manufacturer's recommendations in this regard? Normally, cleaning electronics is simple as long as it is done regularly. Dust remover, or canned air, can be a big help in keeping dirt out of the computer keyboards and the keypads of cell phones, calculators, remote controls, and so forth. Use a soft, damp cloth on the surface of electronics. Dust off the back of your computer tower periodically. Its fan draws dust, which then sticks to the back of the tower and accumulates, affecting the performance and life of your machine. Don't use a vacuum - that can create static electricity. Wipe off your computer screen and monitor periodically, too. 2. Keep Them Cool Electronics do not like temperature extremes. Keep them out of direct sunlight and excessive heat and cold. Make sure the device has a lot of space around ...

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Where to New ThinkPad with the Environment In Mind

Do you need a new laptop? Are you also wondering which choice would be the most eco-friendly choice would be? Look to Lenovo and their new models of ThinkPads then. Yes, Lenovo has released several models of ThinkPads that are environmentally friendly. These new laptops are said to be military-grade durability, eco-friendly and priced right. These are specially designed to use in the education, government and business areas. This series of laptops are called the ThinkPad L series and includes L412 and L512 as models. These are built for high performance and come with the latest Intel processors. They also come with great features such as web conferencing. These ThinkPads contain the Intel Core i3 and i5 processors. Both models have the 16:9 HD display equipped with antiglare. These are also environmentally friendly as we have stated. The model L512 includes 18 percent recycled materials and the L412 has 30 percent recycled materials or what Lenovo calls post-consumer content. This makes them a great green selection for those of you who are eco-conscious these days. These also have the EPEAT Gold and Energy Star 5.0 rating. They are packaged in recycled material too. Both models can come with various options for connecting to ...

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Green Energy Powered by People

With so many electronic gadgets in the world today it seems like we are constantly charging them. There is technology being developed though that would tap into the energy of people's movements. This could be used to power mobile device and possible an entire structure. The power derived from people is a green energy that could be using for charging up any and all electronic gadgets in place of traditional electricity that causes a carbon footprint. Facility: Innovate is an architectural research company in London. It is working on making an energy collector in areas that draw a lot of people such as shopping malls, sport complexes and other buildings that have large events. This technology will not be noticeable though to the naked eye. However, their movement on the tiles will activate a pneumatic machine which then pushed air along to a turbine where is creates electricity according to Oliver Schneider, the managing director. Only a slight difference will be felt by people similar to being on a floor mat. Oliver says,  “We're looking to generate around 1kilowatt-hour of electricity (from each device) per day. That's enough to charge around 300 phones per day”. This power will then be transferred to ...

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Going Green with a Chairman Hybrid Smart Phone

Ulysse Nardin is known throughout the watch world for quality timepieces and now also for a hybrid version of the smart phone. This phone is the most advanced phone on the market today technologically. Why? It is because it can be charged through kinetic energy just like watches can along with being charged electronically. However, this is not a phone for just anyone with prices ranging from $12,800 to an unbelievable $129,000 depending on which model you are thinking of. Let's look into this interesting phone to learn more about it. The Chairman is the first mobile phone to ever have a mechanical rotor, like that in watches, in it. This is added while keeping the design appealing. This component is what makes this smart phone a green choice if you can afford it. Like the automatic watches this phone gets power through the action of the rotor. The rotor provides kinetic energy to charge the battery that is built in to supplement its power supply. Specifications on the Chairman -QWERTY keyboard that is full on the screen -3.2” capacitive touch screen -Owner identification through a fingerprint reader -Physical numeric keys -Video replay capability in high definition -8 megapixel camera -FacebookTM and YouTubeTM preloaded -Google AndroidTM operating platform -Google Maps -Google talk -GmailTM -Qualcomm ...

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