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Eco Factor: Cellphone made from surplus wood. NTT DOCOMO has announced that the company has developed a mobile phone prototype from surplus wood of trees culled during thinning operations to maintain healthy forests. The phone was developed in...

Eco Factor: Concept phone designed to be powered by solar energy. Trying to reduce the amount of e-waste that is generated by people always looking for upgrades of their electronic gear, industrial designers Shao Wei Huang, Chia-Yi Cho, Yu Pei Kuo.

Eco Factor: Concept phone designed to be powered by solar energy. With mobile phone manufacturers working on newer systems that allow their devices to charge on the move, industrial designers aren’t leaving any stone unturned to give...

Eco Factor: Phone charged by kinetic energy comes with a variety of health monitoring sensors. Recently we witnessed a basic phone powered by solar energy, and now we have one that powers itself by harnessing the kinetic energy of the body. The...

Eco Factor: Basic cellphone gets powered by the sun. The technology-driven world of today is highly dependent on devices such as mobile phones to keep us in contact with our relatives and friends. While some people are rich enough to own the...