Here’s another set of solar gear for the rugged outdoorsy types.  Well really, the SL-1 version of the light would be great for anyone.  The SL-1 is really just a great solar flashlight that hooks to your backpack and features a hard ABS plastic exterior.  Which means that it’s highly water and shock resistant.  The hook can also be hung up high to illuminate a wide area, instead of just being used to hang it on your backpack.  If you are looking to illuminate a lot, you might instead consider picking up the SL-2 flashlight.

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We know that CES is just over, but that doesn’t mean your consumer electronics company has no way to promote itself, right? Think out of the box and you get Printed Seeds from Engraved Stones Direct. This is an eco-friendly way to promote your company and its products without impacting the environment negatively – Engraved Stones Direct use natural seeds from a plant in the legume family that grow in Africa and South America. They’re pretty small, ranging from about 1 ½” to 4″ in diameter, and feel almost like leather in the hand. The company is able to print company logos, custom images, slogans or most anything else on these natural seeds, and the printing is scratch-resistant to leave a real impact on your future clients. Talk about going nuts over advertising!

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If you like having a clock around that you know you can rely on, this one will stay powered even after the power has been out for a month.  The clock has no fancy extras, it doesn’t do any interesting tricks, it doesn’t even double as an alarm clock.  It just displays the time, which isn’t that exciting, but the way that it keeps powered is the interesting part.  We’ve shown eco-friendly clocks before, a couple that have been powered by water.  This one can be powered by water, but it has other ways to be powered as well.

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I believe it was Al Gore in his book Earth in the Balance who said that an ordinary car is one of the greatest threats to the environment. Clearly, all automotive companies need to be thinking about Mother Earth the next time they roll their next model off the assembly line.

I suppose this is why Ford has come up with a new dashboard that literally shows you how earth-safe your driving is. Part of it has to do with measuring your fuel efficiency, which is not gauged by a meter or a number, but a picture of a vine.

Apparently, if your driving is fuel-efficient, the vine will start budding and blooming until it is healthy. However, if you are wasting gas, you will be forced to watch that vine shrivel up and die. Yes, it is odd to have a visual cue instead of an exact scientific reading, but I guess we consumers have been trained to react to pictures instead of raw data.

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If you’re into quirky lighting, you’ll love this solar light. The Daylight looks like a normal glowing light shaped like a lamp during the night. Yet when you want it to charge during the day you flip it over so that the solar panel is exposed. These brightly colored lamps would brighten up any home or patio. They’ll work for indoors or outdoors and you’ll never have to deal with changing light bulbs or batteries, plus there are of course no wires to worry about.

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I believe that if we could harness all the kinetic energy from all things that are in motion, we would have no trouble powering any of our technological devices. This concept has now been applied with the nPower PEG personal energy generator.

All that is required is that the user plug in their electronic device, and shake the stick. Or, if you want to be practical about it, go for your morning run. You can clip it to your belt, put it in a bag, or even hold it in the air like a baton at a relay race. Electromagnetic induction transfers the kinetic energy from the movement and turns it into useful power for your mobile device.

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Different eco-friendly flashlights have been seen before.  The ones I have seen most often are the hand crank type, which never seem to be as bright as I’d like.  Well instead of being stuck with a hand crank that after 20 minutes of cranking, you get a few miniscule minutes of light, you could go for the solar route.  Having a solar flashlight is a lot more convenient, since you can lay it in a windowsill and forget about it.  Then when you do need a flashlight, it’s all charged and ready to go.

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It’s an ugly gadget kind of day apparently.  First it was the strange USB speaker, now it’s this mystery gadget.  After staring intently at the three different pictures, I’m still not sure what it’s supposed to be.  Gathering from the name, it’s some sort of bug that the creator cooked up in their head.  The creator was kind enough to state that he’s a goth bug, because he loves to dress in black rubber.  Although he’s a confused goth that needs the sun to survive.

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