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Every one loves their favorite pieces of tech and their great little gadgets, but a change is in the wind: the new focus is not just on clever and more powerful devices but also on how to make a gadget be greener, a new technology waste less and produce more. Are your gadgets going green?
Sun and Cloud: Hand-Cranked Solar Digital Camera
This digital camera comes with 15 Instagram-inspired filters and can be charged via a built-in solar panel, or hand-crank mechanism.
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Bionic Animals: 10 Creatures Thriving with Prosthetics
These ten animals are swimming, running and jumping after losing limbs, fins and tails thanks to caring humans and innovative prosthetic devices.
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Polar Umbrella Skyscraper Protects Arctic Ice Caps
The winner of the 2013 eVolo Skyscraper Competition is an umbrella-shaped structure that turns seawater into energy and re-freezes polar ice caps.
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Bionic Bees Pollinate Plants When Real Live Bees Can't
Swarms of bionic bees equipped with sensors and cameras could pollinate fields of crops in areas affected by Colony Collapse Disorder and other honeybee ills.
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Dumbbells For Non-Dummies: 9 Next-Gen Free Weights
With exercise playing a larger role in today's healthy lifestyles, traditional metal free weights have had to change with the times or get dropped... ouch!
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The Future of Camping: 13 Cool, Clever & Offbeat Gadgets
Ranging from cool and practical to utterly ridiculous, these 13 camping gadgets & gear items go far beyond typical pots, lanterns and mattresses.
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Hot Rock Stars: 9 Retail Items Made From Meteorites
There's a heavenly assortment of meteorite products available for sale, so stop wishing on a falling star and whip out your wallets instead!
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Charge Your Gadgets While You Cook with the Power Pot
The PowerPot harnesses energy from the heat source you use to cook your food to power USB gadgets like phones and GPS navigators.
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Not Science Fiction: 11 Real-Life Robotic Animals
Is that hummingbird watching you? Maybe. Check out these 11 robotic animals including surveillance birds, cargo-carrying mules and pollution-sniffing fish.
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Headless Robotic Mules Carry Cargo for U.S. Military
The LS3 is a headless robotic mule that can reduce the load on soldiers in the field, carrying 400 pounds of gear and following voice commands.
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Solar Powered Snowboard Charges Gadgets on the Slopes
This snowboard is covered in solar panels to gather energy on the slopes, and charge your gadgets when you're done.
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Beet Box: Musical Instrument Made of Vegetables
What looks like some sort of odd display for beets turns out to be a musical instrument you can play like drums.
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Solar-Powered Internet Shipping Container Schools by Samsung
Samsung Africa has launched a shipping container school with solar-powered internet and computers that brings cutting-edge education to remote South Africans.
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Redefining the American Dream with Sustainable Mobility
An urban development concept from architecture firm Höweler and Yoon reimagines the structure of urban and suburban areas with a futuristic transit system.
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It's Electric! 15 Clever Energy-Conscious Gadgets
These 15 innovative gadgets and ideas make us more conscious of our energy usage, and find surprising new ways to produce electricity.
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