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Eco Factor: Cellphone charger powered by hydrogen. The continuous growth in the number of cellphones in use around the world has tempted researchers to think of ways to keep them charged with minimal impact on the environment. Researchers at the...

Eco Factor: Solar energy harvesting device offers green charge everywhere. With our lives being dependent on electronic gadgets more than ever before, keeping our batteries juiced up at all times isn’t easy. Industrial designers Jun-Se Kim,...

Eco Factor: Energy-saving LED lamp generates solar electricity. Designers over at Vinaccia Integral Design earlier thrilled us with their Solar Modules, which could bring a curtain of sustainable lights to your home’s interiors, and now...

Eco Factor: Concept vacuum cleaner powered by ethanol fuel cells. The rise in pollution doesn’t only affect the outdoor air quality but has an ever greater impact indoors. Keeping the indoors clean does remain a priority for all health conscious.

Eco Factor: Human-powered concept radio and flashlight. Most eco-friendly music players and radios carry either a solar charger which doesn’t work indoors or a hand crank that’s just too hard to use. Product designer Luke Johnson thinks that...

Eco Factor: Solar-powered LED light. We have seen solar powered lighting solutions previously, but none of them was as innovative as the SunLight concept designed by Hermann Eske. The SunLight is a solar-powered light in which the solar panels are.

Eco Factor: An elaborate system that aims at cleaning up the world’s oceans and constantly monitor them. The Eco-Mobile Robot is one of the most extensive and intricate concepts ever designed to clean up the oceans of the planet, and it is...

We are always on the lookout for lighting options that use LEDs, as they are far more energy efficient than normal light sources. Not just that, LED lighting offers a lot brighter and focused light than normal bulbs or even CFL lamps. If it is the...

It seems that many across the globe want to switch to green and also have the economic capability to do so. It is not always the commercial factor that is the hindrance in many such cases but the availability of clean energy options proves to be an...

It seems that with the growing prices of fossil fuels and lack of their availability, we are ready to eat a bit more and power up our gadgets by using our own muscle power. There has been a surge in the number of wind-up gadgets in the past year or so..