Archive for the ‘Eco Friendly’ Category
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010
(7 votes, average: 2.71 out of 5)
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Esato board user Remort1 recently published a teaser image for his next work, the first (we think)
Sony Ericsson eco-friendly concept phone, from the GreenHeart series. The image doesn’t tell much, except for the fact that the device will sport a huge display and protect Mother Nature.
What name you give such a device considering that SE’s latest green device is called Aspen?
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Thursday, January 7th, 2010
(8 votes, average: 3.63 out of 5)
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It’s been a while since we last saw an
eco-friendly concept phone, specially one with the Nokia branding on it. Thankfully, we’ve stumbled upon the work of designer Daizi Zheng, the original device pictured below, an eco-friendly Nokia phone powered by sugary drinks.
Daizi claims that the phone battery, used as a power source is too expensive and harmful for nature, specially in the disposal process. She has an alternative for normal batteries, that is the bio battery, an eco-friendly source of energy that uses carbohydrates (sugar in this case) and enzymes as the catalyst for the process needed to produce energy.
One pack of sugary drink will include enough carbohydrates for your phone to work, also generating water and energy, when the battery dies. Bio batteries have the potential to work three to four times longer with a single charge, compared to the Lithium batteries used today.
The idea is brilliant, but what about the handset’s design? How would you feel, carrying such a flask in your pocket?
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Sunday, December 27th, 2009
(3 votes, average: 2.00 out of 5)
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We really appreciate original designs, specially when it comes to
concept phones like the one pictured below. The Zeri Phone features a section that looks like the mouth of a Dune worm, but it’s in fact a bunch of thermoeletric generators, producing electricity through the temperature difference.
Basically, when the handset is in your pocket, it’ll detect the temperature difference and turn it into energy. The “worm mouth” of the phone is actually a fabric made out of knitted metal wires.
In case you don’t carry the phone in your pocket, it’ll rely on a piezoelectric system, using hair like generators to produce electricity via the vibration from the air. Interesting concept overall!
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Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
(12 votes, average: 4.58 out of 5)
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Jozef Kocúr created a brand new
XPERIA concept phone, dubbed the X001, that you can see below. Aside from being part of the famous smartphone series, this device is unique because it’s basically made from a solid brick of aluminium and it combines the power of a solar cell with a methanol battery.
This eco-friendly phone has a simple design and its methanol tank is transparent. The backside hosts a large solar panel and the two solutions combined power the device with environmentally friendly energy, so you’ll save Mother Earth, while you chat on your XPERIA phone.
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Thursday, December 10th, 2009
(2 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
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The device you can see below is the Sticker Phone concept, a design created by Liu Hsiang-Ling. This is an
eco-friendly phone that uses a solar panel to gets its needed energy and it’s able to stick to a window glass via suction. This is the best way to get some extra signal and sunlight.
Sticker Phone is made out of polysiloxane (silicone) and it’s a device that’s not impossible to manufacture, specially by a company that’s keen on green technologies, like Samsung, Nokia or Sony Ericsson. The curved design at the back of the handset encourages the suction concept and, as you can see, the solar panel is placed at the back.
At the front there’s a digital ink soft-screen and polysiloxane phone keys. You stick the phone to a window like a normal sucker and tear it off by pulling its antenna.
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Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
(13 votes, average: 2.69 out of 5)
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Talk about environmentally friendly gadgets, the
Leaf Phone concept you can see below is one eco-friendly device, created by designer Anastasia Zharkova. The handset resembles a natural leaf and uses an organic structure, plus eco-friendly plastic as its main material.
This phone is also a mini PC, since it serves multiple purposes and it’s even able to project a laser keyboard onto any surface, allowing you to access the Internet anytime. Leaf Phone doesn’t necessarily require normal batteries, since it can also run on solar energy, proving to be a sustainable communicator.
Also, we learn that the handset is able to adapt to the dynamics of the human muscles, so you can attach it to any part of the body, like a very cool personal accessory.
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Saturday, September 26th, 2009
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NTT DoCoMo has just revealed new concept phones made out of wood and bearing the pretty funny name of “Touch Wood”. The prototype is made out of surplus wood from the trees that are trimmed down to maintain forests healthy, so nature won’t be harmed in the making of the handset.
This eco-friendly Touch Wood phone was developed together with Olympus Corporation, Sharp and “More Trees” also played a part in the initiative, the latter being a reforestation project. The handset pictured above is made from cypress wood and its color is just as Mother Nature made it, without artificial paints or other chemicals.
Even the scent of wood was kept, to give a special appeal to the concept phone, that can be considered an organic piece of machinery. Expect Touch Wood to be unveiled during the Telecom World 2009 event, held in Geneva, Switzerland, from October 5 to 9. The head of this project was musician Ryuichi Sakamoto and the interface of the device is inspired by the works of photographer Mikiya Takimoto.
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Thursday, September 24th, 2009
(5 votes, average: 1.60 out of 5)
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For modern people upgrading a phone means buying a smartphone, but thanks to handsets like modu, the modular phone, things will change in the future. Now we’ve come across a very interesting
concept phone, the Label With Green device, designed by Shao Wei Huang, Chung Kai Chiang, Yu Pei Kuo and Chia-Yi Cho.
In order to power this handset, you’ll use ECO-Green Electronic Labels, that are solar panel paper labels that power various parts of the phone (camera, keyboard, speaker, display and solar battery). All you need to do in order to activate a function of the device is stick solar labels into the back side of the device.
The main idea behind the concept is to make the user conscious about the toxic waste that gets accumulated through the disposal of electronic gadgets and the energy consumption behind this process. An innovative idea, that’s also environmentally-friendly and original.
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Wednesday, August 12th, 2009
(5 votes, average: 4.60 out of 5)
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The work of two designers, Seungkyun Woo and Junyi Heo, the Leaf concept is a
wearable bracelet phone that uses solar cells to recharge. The cells are placed on the handset’s front panel, in order to juice it up.
Also, the concept phone’s cradle hosts the cells on its back and in case the day is cloudy, you can always use electricity to recharge the device. The Leaf phone is basic and provides the user with call features, messages and… an eco-friendly attitude.
As you can see in the pictures below, the handset incorporates a LED dot display, a speaker, a magnetic terminal, a flexable band, perfect for its bracelet mode and a navi ball controller.
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Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
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Viber Burst is a great idea, a concept charger created by Josh Pell, a designer at Swinburne University, who imagined a brand new way of recharging handsets. The charger relies on kinetic energy, that it gets from simple movements and harnesses it for later use.
The concept charger stores the energy it gets in your bag, on your hand or in your shoes and it can transfer all of it to your phone in just two seconds, completely recharging it. Viber Burst is made out of heat and weather resistant materials (PC/ABS), that can also take mechanical and electrical shocks.
You’ll find the charger’s main components on a flexible PCB and you’ll be able to install the device in any place that’s subject to intense motion, in order to get kinetic energy. This gadget takes eco-friendliness to a new level and it’s a wonder it’s not commercially available yet.
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