Wednesday, November 21, 2007

6 best green gadgets for Christmas

Looking for the perfect gift for the geek in your house? With all the recent interest in living green, the technologically inclined have been hard at work making your eco-friendly lifestyle easier to achieve -- with gadgets! There is literally an endless supply of tech out there that will help you reduce your impact on the environment, so weeding through it all can be a challenge (especially if you're not all that tech savvy yourself). Here's a quick list of six of the most useful, eco-friendly or downright awesome little innovations that have recently grabbed our attention.

1. Hymini: a device that collects solar and wind power, so you can charge your portable electronics any time, anywhere.

2. SolarRoll: a green gadget that allows you to finally have a truly "mobile" laptop.

3. Water powered alarm clock: Need more juice? Simply add more water right from the tap. Features include a gravity sensor that lets you switch from function to function just by changing the clock's position.

4. Wattson: If you're not using much electricity, the Wattson will glow a calming blue color. If you're using the microwave oven, vacuum cleaner, blasting the stereo, and typing away on the computer at the same time, it will glow an angry red color.

5. Wind-up phone charger: This incredibly clever gadget does just what you'd think -- charges your phone with nothing more than elbow grease.

6. Solar Bluetooth headset: The Iqua BHS-603 SUN offers complete freedom from chargers, wires and delays allowing for 9 straight hours of talk time and up to 200 hours of standby.

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