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Nokia Unveils Eco Profiles of Every Device, and Bike-Powered Cell Phone Charger

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Nokia holds a proud ranking of one of the greenest tech companies around, applauded by everyone from Greenpeace to Dow Jones. The company has earned the accolades with tough standards fro green, and they've just released two green things we like: profiles of every new gadget they make that tell the user the envrionmental benefits and impacts of the device, and a bike powered cell phone charger (because you can never get enough of pedal-powered doo-dads).

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Greenpeace's Guide to Greener Electronics: May 2010

The latest quarterly rankings of the greening of the electronics industry finds a number of firms losing ground for failing to meet deadlines to phase out toxic chemicals from their products.

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Potentially Game-Changing Zinc-Air Battery Tech Gets ARPA-E Financing

revolt zinc air battery photo Image: ReVolt Your Tax Dollars at Work ReVolt Technology is working on a very promising zinc-air rechargeable battery that could be used in electric cars and hold 3x more energy than lithium-ion batteries. You can find out more about it by checking out our previous post: Very Promising! Zinc-Air Battery Could Hold 300% More Energy Than Lithium-Ion. But the news today isn't about a technological breakthrough, but rather a financing one.

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DuPont Invents Inks to Print Cheap OLED Displays In Minutes

dupont oled ink image Image via Technology Review OLED televisions are on their way as an option for highly vivid colors while (eventually) using less energy than the current king of energy efficiency - LED backlit LCD displays. However, the bigger an OLED display, the more expensive it is to manufacture. Televisions on the market now are a relatively tiny 15" for the largest versions, and they're running around $2700.00. Companies are interested in printing OLEDs in long rolls to help bring down.

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Dell Laptop Packaging Ready for the Compost Bin

The bamboo packaging that Dell is using to cushion laptops has been certified compostable.
 

Dell Laptop Packaging Ready for the Compost Bin

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DuPont Invents Inks to Print Cheap OLED Displays In Minutes

dupont oled ink image Image via Technology Review OLED televisions are on their way as an option for highly vivid colors while (eventually) using less energy than the current king of energy efficiency - LED backlit LCD displays. However, the bigger an OLED display, the more expensive it is to manufacture. Televisions on the market now are a relatively tiny 15" for the largest versions, and they're running around $2700.00. Companies are interested in printing OLEDs in long rolls to help bring down...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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What The Heck is OLET Technology, and Will It Replace OLEDs?

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OLED technology is promising for more energy efficient, colorful, thin, and light-weight lighting and display technology. From cell phone screens to massive billboards, OLEDs are touted as the future. But there are already technologies that seeks to push OLEDs off this pedestal. For instance, we've heard of PHOLED, which is the use of phosphor materials to make OLEDs tremendously more efficient.

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