Love camping in the wild? Here is a new handy gadget that you might want to check it out. It’s called the BioLite CampStove, a portable stove that come with an unique heat-activated charging solution that you can use it for either lighting up your surrounding with USB LED light or charging your smartphone.

“Open wood fires are inefficient, wasting potential energy and creating toxic smoke due to incomplete combustion. Carefully designed stoves that use fans to blow air into the fire can dramatically improve combustion. However, such stoves require small amounts of electricity to power their fans and most people who cook on wood are without grid or battery access.

BioLite stoves solve this problem by converting a fraction of the fire’s thermal energy into electricity to power our combustion improvement system. Excess electricity is made available to users for charging small electronic devices such as mobile phones, LED lights, GPS and many others.”

BioLite Stove require no fuel at all but twigs that you can find it on the road or beneath the trees. Because it can charge your gadgets, you can also boil water, cook egg, noodles or anything else by using the fire on top of the BioLite. It also capable of burns pine cones, pellets and other biomass if no twigs available.

Here is the photo taken from the official site:

The price for this BioLite CampStove is $129, coming in this Camping season. But you can reserve it now if you are interested.

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This is the first time I hear about a wireless mouse without the need of a battery to work. Genius recently introduced their Battery-Free eco-friendly wireless mouse called DX Eco. This DX Eco Battery-Free BlueEye mouse is using some kind of built-in gold capacitor to power up the entire mouse, and the beauty of this capacitor is that it can be quicky recharged in 3 minutes for about 100,000 times until it wear off.

DX Eco Eco-friendly battery-free blueEye mouse is featuring 1,600 DPI optical sensor, using 2.4GH wireless technology, with up to 15 meters of wireless range. It also has a special flying scroll wheel, hot keys and rubber insert. Sadly, we have no idea on how long that 3-minute recharge could last, it could be just a few hours or longest at a few days. But it’s a nice idea that we don’t have to wait to long for recharging, and no need to buy battery for it.

The Genius DX Eco wireless battery-free mouse is priced at 45 Euro ($61.77), but we have no idea when it will hit the US shores.

[Genius][TechFresh]

Genius DX ECO-Friendly Battery-Free BlueEye Mouse
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A lot of iPad skin out is either made with silicone or vinyl. Not all of them are as eco-friendly as this new version of Wooden iPad skin. Recently, NeedSupply.com has stocked this item, which is this wooden iPad skin that come in two parts.

One pare of the skin is for the front frame, and the other one is made for the back cover. Protecting both front and rear without a case needed. The wooden iPad skin is made with maple wood, which has been lacquered for durability. To stick onto your iPad, this eco-friendly wooden iPad skin is using 3M adhesive on the rear side of the skin which you can apply it easy, and remove it without leaving any residues.

This Eco Friendly wooden iPad skin is currently available for $30 at Need Supply. Go get one if you are interested.

[via GadgetsIn]

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Hacoa Play Mouse is a lovely eco-friendly mouse that looks like a doll with two eyes and one big nose. Apart from its loveliness, this mouse is made of natural wood, where you can choose to have it in light maple or dark walnut. It does nothing rocket science, connect to your computer and use it like a usual PC mouse, though you might have a little bit problem with the mouse clicks that are rather small.

Hacoa Play Mouse is comaptible with Windows 2000/Me/XP/Vista, Mac OSX 10.3.9 or higher and it’s weighing in 75g (maple) or 70g (walnut) only. Sadly, what might turn you down is the pricing that set high at $189 a pop. If you are green geek who love wood stuff, you have to invest quite a bit to own this eco-friendly product.

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Tin can is not eco-friendly, so the Eco Can will be your future replacement to save the Mother Nature from rubbish disaster. Eco Can is shaped like the common tin can where you sip your coke, but it’s entire made from biodegradable PLA (kind of corn starch) material instead of petroleum-based material.

Eco Can support both hot or cold beverage and can keep the temperature for long when you are traveling.

Biodegradable Eco Can In Green, Black, Red and Blue Color

Double walled, the Eco Can offers excellent temperature retention (hot or cold) and is microwave and dishwasher safe. Use it for soup, coffee, juice, whatever. With a screw top lid and ring top-style drinking lip spills and drips are virtually impossible. And because it’s the same size as a normal can of glug you can bung it in your bag wherever you may roam. If any can can, Eco Can can.

This Eco-friendly Eco Can is now available for pre-order at Firebox for £12.99 with free shipping deal.

Eco Can – Because Tin Can Is So Lame
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Fujitsu, the company that focus on creating PC system and peripherals has introduced the World’s most eco-friendly mouse. The mouse is made with biological renewable compounds like natural resins, lignin and starch. It works just like any plastic mouse that you are currently using at. However, this Fujitsu M440 eco-friendly mouse might be more comfortable when comparing to the non-ecofriendly mouse because of the nature of the materials.

This Fujitsu is using USB 2.0 interface to hook up with your PC. It will be available for $22 when launched in US.

[via RegHardware]

Fujitsu M440 – The World’s Most Eco-Friendly Mouse
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I’ve one inflatable bed that is quite portable for camping, easy to find place to keep it and I love it. That’s why when I saw this Inflatable Sofa / Couch, I’m ready to place my order.

This Inflatable Sofa is using an unique material to built up a place for you to sit comfortably – It’s a recycled paper!

I could never imagine that recycled paper can be used as our couch. Of course, it’s impossible for the paper alone. This Inflatable Recycle paper sofa is having two layers of paper and one layer of elastic plastic on the inside that could hold the air.

According to the product page, both inflating and deflating this sofa only takes seconds count which I think it’s a big time saver.

If you would like to own one (despite of its recycled paper ugliness), you can order it for $590 via Sleekidentity. You will get the metal rack and rubber straps (red or black) for free.

[BookOfJoe via TrendHunter]

Inflatable Recycled Paper Sofa
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Toshiba, being one of the leading manufacturer in Southeast Asia has decided to release their new Power TV series that could be powered by rechargeable battery.

Yes, you are not reading it wrong. Since we’ve already got a battery powered car, it’s pretty common to have a battery powered HDTV as well. Toshiba has announced that they will be rolling out its battery powered TV in the Southeast Asia region to the countries like Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam.

The purpose of this Battery Powere HDTV is for emergency usage, where users can still watch the news when in the blackout condition on typhoon seasons.

This Toshiba Regza Battery powered HDTV should be able to provide up to 2 hours of TV watching time before it need another charge to the power outlet. It’s available in 24-inch (PB1), 32-inch (PC1) and 40-inch (PS1) with price range between $190 to $400.

No info yet on the full specification details and when Toshiba will ship to those countries.

[via TheCoolGadgets, TechFresh, AkihabaraNews]

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Newegg is promoting their green products and are giving out two coupon codes, Green20 and Green30 to users so they can save 20% or 30% on their purchase of the listed green products. This includes solar panels from SunForce, electric bicycle from Pedego, and more.

Both coupon code Green20 and Green30 expires on October 31th, so make sure to do your purchase before the expiry date.

Save More By Go Green – Up To 30% Off On Green Products!
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If wearing a wood accessories sounds like a good idea for you, then you’ll be likely to love this Wooden watches design made by WeWood. It features all wood materials in crafting the watch (except the Miyota electronic parts and needles), making the watch a suitable gear for the eco-lover.

There is a wide range of collection in WeWood’s inventory, where you can find about 8 type of WeWood wooden watches including the beige, Crono, Date Brown and Crono Black.

Despite of its model, All of the WeWood Wooden Watches share the same price mark. You can get the watch for $119 USD a pop + shipping fee (if available).

[via WeWood, CoolHunting, Winarco]

WeWood Wooden Watches – Let’s Get Back To The Nature
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Over at Etsy, Johan from Techfresh has found a new eco-friendly USB Flash drive known as the Bobo Bamboo. This USB Flash drive is designed by Modenski from San Francisco, and he hand-assembled everything together.

Bobo Bamboo is a 8GB flash drive, fully enclosed with the natural bamboo case. Will work properly on USB 2.0 interface, and it’s $48 per piece. Interested? Head to Etsy for more details.

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Taking about motion sensing, we have seen some solar lights have this features. However, on a light bulb? Eco Light bulb? Well, it’s the first time we heard about that.

This is the ESCO Sensor Lamp (according to RedFerret), the world’s first CFL bulb that gets a motion sensing features. It will automatically detect movement in its range and turn the light on/off when someone approaches the ‘viewing zone’ of the sensor.This could be a great feature, but it can be also a big downside.

You can’t possibly use this lamp in the reading room where the lamp will only detect any reasonable movement when you flip your pages. If there is no movement detected, the lamp will auto shut down and you’ll be reading in the dark!

However, this Lightbulb with motion sensor is very suitable for use in your patio, or your doorstep where you can find key easily at the night. Just move close to the door and the light will on, and once you’ve enter to your house the light will shut off.

Very practically, and it can continue shining for 8000 hours, or abour 20,000 on/off cycles. This Motion sensing light bulb is going to cst your Price: £15.98 / Euro17.58 / $22.3 USD.

Find more information at KJGlobal.

[via Craziest Gadgets]

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If you dislike the type of desktop air purifier like Sharp PlasmaCluster model, then you should check out the HumanScale version that is using the traditional Electrostatic Precipitator (ESP) method of air purification.

Humanair Air Purifier also uses Clean Air Zone technology which was developed in Sweden to clean the air from pollutants, dusts, particles, biological contaminants. It uses about 22W of power to do its jobs, so you can safely categorize this Humanair Air Purifier into your eco-friendly gadget list.

HumanScale Humanair Air Purifier Features:

• Removes more than 99% of all airborne contaminants, including Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs)
• Operates in virtual silence with no noticeable breeze, so the unit can be placed near the user without distraction
• Small size for unobtrusive placement and operation
• Ideal for use in office, hospitality, healthcare or home environments
• Creates no ozone
• Paper filter can be vacuumed and reused or recycled with other paper products
• LED alert signals when it’s time to clean or change the filter
• World’s most energy-efficient air cleaner

This Air Purifier is going to hit the store at October 2010 for $300.

[HumanScale via TechFresh, GoodCleanTech]

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Just like iPhone, lots of creative manufacturers trying their best to twist some new accessories to support the new iPad owners.

The latest accessory created for iPad is a Eco-friendly iPad holder that could be wall-mounted. It’s called as “Wallet Mount”, where it can hold the iPad at the provided slot while the bamboo case-like holder is sticking at the wall tightly.

Made from 100% bamboo, it can make sure no trees cut down from the process (except bamboo trees! ). Walet Mount is designed by Jonathan Danforth that also has release a blueprints for DYI-er.

If you want an instant solution, go buy Walet Mount for $64.95. If you are keen enough, you can try make it yourself using Jonathan’s blueprints. It shouldn’t that difficult if you can find a good bamboos.

[via Technabob]

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I’m a huge fans of potatoes myself, but I never realize it could be used as a power source in the future. Over at Yissum Research Development Company Ltd. has come up with a new trick to pull energy out of the tasty potatoes. It sounds impossible, but they have really achieved such a goal, where the potatoes can lit up a small bulb showed in the picture.

I have seen power drawn from Citrus, Apple or even water. But a Potato battery could be an interesting. According to the company, the bio-battery is a “solid organic electric battery based upon treated potatoes”. It has to do with some chemical reaction between the enhanced salt bridge of the treated potato tubers and the plate clipping the potatoes batteries.

With this technology, the researchers believes that they’ve found a cost-effective and easy-to-find material to light up the area where electricity is not easily available. However, I have no idea if the potatoes will remain ‘snackable’ after juicing out the enhanced salt.

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Potatoes As The Future Bio-Batteries
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The latest air conditioner from LG has been equipped with a solar panel where it can power up the air purification process without relying to much on home electricity. Codename as LG F-Q232LASS, the air-con is consider as a hybrid solution, where the solar panel equipped on the outdoor unit can generate about 70 Watts of power (per hour). It’s obviously can save electricity bills, however you cannot expect much saved form it.

It looks like a nice idea, however if the outdoor is installed in the alley with less sunlight, the solar panel could be just a decoration only.

However, Beside it can save power, LG F-Q232LAS Hybrid Air conditioner is also eco-friendly as it emit less CO2 where it can reduce about 200+ kg of CO2 in 10 years of usage. Sounds great, but it’s not available yet. According to the press release, this LG F-Q232LASS hybrid air conditioner will be released on July. No pricing details yet.

[Akihabaranews via Winarco]

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Woo Seok Park has designed a high-tech trash can called “BarCode TrashCan” that could automatically separate trashes based on the material or organic factor. According to Woo Seok Park, a trashcan should be smart enough the differentiate waste that could be recycled or non-recyclable to speed up the process of trash classification in the factory. The BarCode TrashCan will scan each trash thrown into the can, and separate them into two storage (it should have two storage inside the trash can.

Pretty a green thought and design, however, it’s unknown on how the scanner will work separating banana from plastic if they have no barcode at all.

[Yanko via Walyou and TCG]

BarCode TrashCan Concept by Woo Seok Park
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Mike Thompson introduced the Latro Lamp, the so called Eco-friendly lamp because its main power source is Algae. Yes, you it’s algae the living thing that power up the lamp residing at the bottom of the jar like lamp.

The energy was extracted from a glass storage of algae because the green plant produces carbon dioxide required by the lamp to light up. Since the algae lives on sunlight, all you have to do is to feed them sunlight everyday and it will produces enough CO2 for the lamp. In case the weather is bad, you can breathe your breath into the Latro Lamp to provide CO2.

Sounds too good to be true, however, let’s hope Mike Thompson can turn this concept into a real thing soon.

[via The Design Blog]

Latro Lamp – Eco Lamp Powered By Algae
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This Kiwi Choice U-Powered Portable fold-up solar charger is similar with Solio Solar Hybrid Charger. The Solar charger has three leaves of fold-up solar panel, where when you want to use it you can expand it and fold it up when you are done.

KiWi Choice U-powered Solar Charger can charge gadget through USB, but it’s not the only way it can rejuice a gadget. You can also use it to draw power from car charger, and wall charger. So we can safely say that Kiwi Choice U-Powered solar charger is a 3-in-1 eco-friendly charger.

Kiwi Choice U-Powered Solar charger comes with a 2,000mAh rechargeable battery that can sustain from more than 1000 recharges (similar with Eneloop rechargeable battery). As an additional bonus, you can use Kiwi Choice U-powered USB Solar charger as an emergency light source because it has a built-in LED flashlight.

The solar charger will comes with 11 different connectors that will fit iPhone, iPod, Smartphone like Blackberry, handheld console similar to PSP and many more.

If you want to own this solar charger, you are looking at the $49.99 USD price mark. It’s not really an expensive solar charger to think you can use it as an emergency tool…

[via Ubergizmo]

Kiwi Choice U-Powered Fold-Up Solar Charger
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It is rare to hear Mitsubishi name echoing in the LCD monitor market, but recently, you can hear their sound again after a long pause since their OLED TV with Unlimited Screen Size (Did we miss something out?). Well, anyway they are reviving again with their new product called RDT232WLM monitor that can consume 35% less power that most 23-inch monitors.

Mitsubishi RDT232WLM features TN panel, ECO mode, support native resolution at 1920 x 1080p, 5ms response time, 250 cd/m2 brightness level, 1000:1 contrast ratio, and it has some ports including D-Sub, DVI, HDMI and output.

Mitsubishi RDT232WLM 23-inch monitor also featuring two built-in 1W speakers to save some space. You will be able to see this monitor in Japan beginning this April 23rd.

[AkibaraNews via TechFresh]

Mitsubishi RDT232WLM 23-inch monitor
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