Apartment Therapy: audio, video & computer

Eco-Button Blasts Your Unit Into Hypersleep

Don't you wish saving the world was easy? Don't you wish you could just push a button and drastically reduce your energy consumption? Well, you can. One push of this Captain Planet-themed button activ...

Look! Biodegradable Cell Phones

SonyEricsson just unveiled their a new concept eco-friendly cell phone. It's a biodegradable phone. This is the type of phone that you could just throw away, once you got tired of it. For now, this ty...

iO Induction: The Green Way of Charging Your iPhone

Imagine this situation: you are stuck in the middle of nowhere with no batteries for your iPod or iPhone and you need a charge. What are you going to do? Now imagine that you are stuck out there in th...

Green Idea: Kinetically Powered Camera

In an age where a digital camera's megapixel count keep climbing, the power demands of these devices keeps getting more significant. If you take a lot of photographs and are worried about the environm...

Green Idea: HP Boxless Laptop

We have seen a few different situations where product packaging is reused as a protective sleeve or even TV stand. Commendable efforts, but the fact still remains that most people choose to toss the ...

Corded Phones: More Efficient than Cordless
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Recently we blogged about a company called Old Phone Works which refurbishes vintage corded phones. It turns out that not only are these phones good looking, they're also easier on your energy bill...

Asus Goes Green With Bamboo Laptops

Asus launched the Asus Bamboo Series notebook. This isn't the first time that Asus has used natural products in their laptops. They have successfully used leather in the past. The bamboo just goes a s...

Siemens Eco Friendly Handsets

The German high-technology giant has decided to try something green for its next series of telephone handsets. On top of that, Siemens is trying to make a bold and beautiful green statement with these...

Green Idea: Wind Up Remote Control

We have two universal remote controls. Both are Logitech Harmony remotes but one uses replaceable batteries while the other one has it's own charging dock and a rechargeable battery. What we have come...

Eco-Friendly Water-Powered Clock

Bedol has created a great way of tracking the time, in an eco-friendly way, without using any batteries. The clock is powered by water and salt alone. Even though this might sound far fetched, it's a ...

Edison by Verdiem Cuts PC Energy Use

Nice! Just 48 hours ago we were talking about how much energy computers really use and whether or not a green PC is worth the investment. Well, now we have some answers and an alternative....

Dell's Studio Hybrid Desktop

We blogged about Dell's new eco-desktop not too long, but that was before it was actually available for purchase. Now, we can't honestly say that we're considering buying one of Dell's new Studio H...

Repair, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Fixing a Laser Printer

With the low cost of electronics, it's tempting to chuck something out and replace it when it breaks. But some things really will last forever with a little bit of maintenance and a bit of know-how.....

G4 Cube Shell Reincarnated: Home For Your Mac Mini and Aiport Extreme

I was always a fan of the G4 cube, and even considered picking one up from eBay so that I could upgrade the specs to something more respectable. Alternatively you could take a different approach to br...

Fujitsu Wooden Laptop

Asus has the bamboo laptop and now Fujitsu has the cedar laptop. While they look very similar I actually like the Fujitsu concept better. Why?...

Goodwill's Computer Dismantle Program

You know, sometimes this green thing can get a bit depressing. There's a lot of waste out there, and no matter how much of it gets recycled, we always seem to throw more and more away. So it's good ...

Vers 2x Wood iPod/MP3 Speaker Dock

Wow. That's all we can manage to get out of our speechless mouths when we read about the Vers 2x Speaker Dock. Real cherry wood from sustainably-managed plantations; 20 watts of power out of each...

Battery Charger Roundup

We've been pleased with the performance of our battery charger -- even if we were dismayed that it came with three disposable faceplates. In fact, we've come around to using rechargeable batteries ...

Resleeve: Recycled CD Case/Sleeve

If not every day, every few days we check up on Green as a Thistle's daily pledge to do something greener and keep it up for the duration of the year she's committed to making greener moves. Day 31...

Cool Green Concept: Green Plug

We have one plug for our cell phone charger, another for our laptop, another for our digital camera battery, and that's just the beginning. How amazing and considerably less wasteful would it be if...

'Tis the Season to Fix Not Buy!

We may be green, but we're also guilty. This holiday season, as we shop for the people on our list, we are constantly tempted to buy things for ourselves -- things we don't need. All this commerce go...

AT On... Life Without Paper

Forgive us while we step out of second person. I'm writing about my holiday wish list: there's only one thing on it, and it's less paper. Blogging is relatively low on the paper scale (though I do k...

Green Tip: LCD vs. CRT

Most of us think upgrading from a CRT to an LCD monitor is an easy decision, the LCD (or what most of us think of as the "flat panel monitor") is a smaller, more elegant solution to the big box monit...

Myths and Truths about Black Websurfing

Fade to black. The concept of using a black-backed screen on computer screens got some pretty big play around the "greening" side of the web--we even mentioned it here and surveyed readers here on AT...

Hot or Not? Fashionation 4 A Cause Speakers

Fashionation 4 A Cause Speakers ($14.95) New York Magazine lists them in their 2007 gift guide as one of eight items to buy a "Green-Minded Teen." The speakers are made of 100% recycled materials, a...