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Eco Factor: Portable Media Player powered by solar energy.

Shiro Corp. has launched a new portable media player, the Shiro SQ-S, which carries a large solar panel on its rear side that can power the player in case you are nowhere near any USB…

Eco Factor: Vacuum cleaner made from 55% recycled materials consumes just 1.25KW.

Pollution is not only harsh on the environment but also makes indoors dirty as ever. Vacuum cleaners promise clean homes, but the amount of power they suck leaves…

Eco Factor: Laser pulses beamed from space could accurately measure the amounts of CO2 in the atmosphere.

Apart from being used in some fun toys, high-intensity lasers have been used to measure the distance between the Earth and the moon, which is.

Eco Factor: Phone made from hay gets easily recycled.

Research indicates that plastic takes hundreds of thousands of years to decompose. So if you throw your old cellphone in a landfill, you bet you will find it in your next rebirth, provided you..

Protect Our Earth glasses are made by recycling glass from the bottom halves of Bordeaux wine bottles, preventing them from reaching the landfill. For a multilingual appeal the glasses carry the phrase “Protect Our Earth” in four different…

Eco Factor: Concept umbrella harnesses raindrops for electricity.

Designer Sang-Kyun Park has designed an umbrella that does much more that protecting the user from rain. Known as the LightDrops, the umbrella has been designed to harness the…

Eco Factor: Multipurpose hydrogen-electric bus would carry passengers and cargo to reduce traffic.

The rapid industrialization and the dependence on technology means more and more goods now have to be transported on sea, land and air. Though sea…

Eco Factor: Super-concrete can store solar energy at high temperatures, thereby reducing its cost per kilowatt hour.

The U.S. Department of Energy will give an award of $770,000 to researchers at the University of Arkansas, who are developing a…

Eco Factor: Sustainable homes built in Steamboat Springs.

A “hardheaded” homebuilder, Paul Flood, has shown the world that going green does not require you to go bankrupt. The builder has developed green, solar-powered homes in the city of…

Eco Factor: Efficient, non-electric fireplaces.

Winter season has just started knocking on our doors, and room heating systems are in high demand. In an effort to keep your home warm, the use of electric heating systems not only leaves its mark on.