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Glastonbury revelers will be happy to know that a dead phone battery mid-festival doesn’t necessarily mean making no more calls until you get home. This is because Orange will be setting up their giant mobile phone charger again, powered by wind and solar power, to provide much-needed juice for low-powered festival goers.

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The i/o Organizer is an exploration of the working desktop landscape. i/o, or input /output, consists of modular ceramic and walnut elements which can be "plugged-in" to a sectioned felt and walnut base for customization. The design uses natural, warm materials that are ecologically responsible. In addition to the touch and [...]

Nano Vent-skin is a conceptual project by young designer Agustin Otegu, featuring miniscule bio-turbines that could clad buildings to generate energy and absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. (more…)

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Cardboard - the new major medium! It’s green, it’s flexible… it’s being used for art and furniture. And what better way than DOING IT YOURSELF with Bloxes!
Make a sculpture to add to your mid-century style pad. Make a coffee-table, fort, massive installation. Then paint it and voila - ART extreme [...]

You’ve collected hundreds of business cards since that last conference. Now, they’re scattered between stacks on your desk, stuffed into files, mixed into papers, and wrinkling in your back pocket. That’s hardly the way to maintain a proper business relationship.
This little file cabinet looks like a shrunken version of the real thing, but holds [...]

$14.99A Decidedly Diminutive Desktop Dispenser for Drinkers
Tired of getting up from your desk, thereby expending calories, and walking all the way down the hall (past the scatterbrained marketing dweebs), to constantly refill your glass of two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen? Of course you are. Live life more efficiently and make your first stop [...]

A novel interpretation of a common computer accessory, this 512 MB USB memory stick is shaped like a squid and packaged in fresh-food packaging—a plastic-wrapped white tray. The Squid USB lights up blue when plugged into a computer and comes in a black fishnet carrying case.

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Useful indoors and as an accessory for outdoor activities, these multi-purpose scissors can be used as a knife and an opener for screw-top lids, bottles, and cans. Made of stainless steel.

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Even your mousepad can go "green" even if it’s just cosmetic… How fabulous is this lovely piece.

Evan Rachel Wood High Quality Mousepad A
US $6.99 (0 Bid)
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how cool is this! now you can have a fire in your bedroom without setting your blanket on fire. even comes with a handle. fire briefcase, anyone?
it also doesn’t release toxic fumes, so you won’t die after showing off your new gadget. (via whiskeyandrecords )

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Fun to put together… and take apart and put together again every time someone admires them on my desk and asks what they are and how they work. The sound is so so but, really, their coolness overwhelms the fact that they’re not Bose-eque. Also, if you’re like me and drop things a lot, these [...]

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This is perfect for all those who hate spiders or other insects in your house but dont like killing them.
The Spider Catcher works by surrounding the spider with bristles that close around the spider, the bristles harmlessly trap the spider, to allow you to pickup and release the spider outside.
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This elegant frosted-glass ball glows different colors to display real time stock market trends, traffic congestion, pollen forecasts, or any other Ambient information channel.

6 Colour Change Mood Lights Bar Spa Pool Bath Tub Float
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Want to give away some bling this year but can’t afford the real kind? Why not gift one of the fabulous crystal USB keys and add a special photo and your fave song while you’re at it? Perfect for stocking stuffers or women who travel/work alot. (via stacymae )

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Want to water the grass with your umbrella runoff?  Here’s the solution.  Form and Function meet Green.

How cute are these?  At under $150.00 you can have a stylish portable harddrive to shlep with you from client to client.  My eyes would pop if I saw a programmer pull up with one of these.

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PENGUIN SHOWER RADIO - COLLECTIBLE & FUN TO USE
US $5.00 (0 Bid)

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witty and irreverent designer, Tobias Wong’s, wireless functioning lightswitch encased in lucite is now available in limited editions (numbered up to 500) in either 14k gold ($275) or chrome ($165).

What a refreshingly brilliant idea! Plants to filter our air is not only healthier in general, but also lovely to look at.

MITS ECLIPSE JDM COLD AIR INTAKE+FILTER 95 96 97 98 99
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