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CES 2012: Bamboo Gadgets Make a Green Statement

While the green current is still in fashion, manufacturing companies have to do their best and combine advanced technologies with sustainable materials, to capture the attention of potential buyers. These days, it appears easy to base the production of high-tech devices on sustainable materials, mostly due to their ...

13 January 2012
08:13 GMT

Full Bamboo Wireless Keyboard and Mouse Are Just What They Sound Like

Eco-friendly may be one way to refer to the new peripheral set that people may or may not find online, depending on where they look. Then again, eco-friendly may be laying it a bit thick, since while it's true that there is almost no plastic used in the making of the keyboard and mouse, using bamboo as a subst...

22 December 2011
10:37 GMT

Famous Pandas Eat Bamboo Worth £70,000 ($109,172/€81,441) Annually

Two eccentric creatures live the lives of the rich and famous at the Edinburgh Zoo. They demand bamboo worth £70,000 every year and live in luxurious suites costing no less than £275,000 annually. As if this wouldn't be enough, officials say the facility will have to pay £636,000 a year to Chin...

5 December 2011
05:42 GMT

World's Most Expensive Anti-Cancer Tea Fed by Panda Poo

China makes sure nothing is wasted while all its resources are used and reused, time after time. Same goes for Panda poo, that is supposed to contribute a great deal to the manufacturing process of one of the worlds' most sophisticated and expensive kinds of tea. It appears that Pandas are very delicate creatu...

22 November 2011
10:49 GMT

Clothing Labels Are Guides to Your Eco-Conscious Attitude

You definitely are what you wear, in times when you have several options that can minimize the impact of your clothes on the environment. Organic fibers represent by far one of the most eco-friendly alternatives. Check your the labels on your clothes and proclaim yourself eco-conscious only if they are made of cotton...

17 November 2011
11:10 GMT

ASUS Presents Affordable Bamboo Laptops

On the IT market, especially on the PC front, there are certain products that, by their very nature, exclude any possibility of being even remotely affordable to the majority of consumers. Gaming-oriented and enthusiast-grade hardware are just one example of such product. Another example would be a certain electroni...

7 July 2010
06:58 GMT

ASUS Bamboo Notebooks Boast NVIDIA Optimus

We have already managed to get a pretty close look at the two Republic of Gamers motherboards that ASUS is demonstrating at CeBIT 2010 in Hanover, Germany, but it seems that power gaming and ultra-high-end performance are not the only areas that the company aims to excel in. While supposedly planning on introducing a...

2 March 2010
04:15 GMT

Making Green Cloths from Bamboo

The preferred source of food for the Panda bears, bamboo, may soon be used to create eco-friendly cloths, as the wonderful plant has properties that other synthetic materials, as well as cotton, could only dream of. In addition, the bamboo fabric is very soft to the touch, and has a few extra anti-bacterial features ...

3 March 2009
07:05 GMT

ASUS' Bamboo Laptop Gets Priced

Asustek Computer, the worldwide leading provider of innovative solutions, has announced plans to debut its nature-friendly laptop PC which features a casing made of bamboo on Saturday at Taiwan's IT Month exhibition.The environment friendly laptop was presented last year for the first time, and it comes as a par...

28 November 2008
11:02 GMT

Five Items for a Mars No-Return Trip

In light of the recent article describing Buzz Aldrin's idea of no-return trips to Mars as being more logical and profitable, try to imagine the following situation: you are chosen to represent the pioneering mission that would help establish the first base on the red planet. Money and space are not a problem, ...

28 October 2008
05:23 GMT

New ASUS 'Green' Notebooks Are All About Bamboo

Yesterday, ASUS announced a new portable computer system that will most certainly draw your attention the very first time you have a chance to notice it. Touted as one of the company's most “environment-friendly” products, the new Bamboo Series of notebooks boasts a more than interesting ex...

29 August 2008
09:18 GMT

Backup Your Data with the Eco-Friendly [re]drive

Say you need some extra storage space and you're already considering the purchase of one of those external HDD solutions. In that case, you should know that there are several manufactures that can provide you with such a product. In all fairness, there are so many external hard drives available on the market, th...

30 July 2008
09:06 GMT

Dell Unveils "Greenest" Consumer Concept Desktop PC

As you probably know, yesterday was "Earth Day", and an extremely appropriate time for Dell to introduce its Green consumer desktop PC. The company seems to make important steps towards the small desktop computing market, and the model introduced yesterday is touted as the smallest and the most eco-friendly device of...

23 April 2008
11:18 GMT

Bamboo Silk Could Be the Textile of the Future

You rather associate bamboo with exotic furniture, but the textiles of the future could be bamboo-made. A new research carried out at the Colorado State University and presented at the 235th national meeting of the American Chemical Society shows that bamboo textiles protect against harmful ultraviolet (UV) radiation...

18 April 2008
04:46 GMT

The Amazing Bamboo

In the world of the building materials, bamboo could compete successfully against steel, concrete, wood and glass. Because of its exceptional mechanical qualities, low price and design, bamboo could turn into one of the preferred building materials of the future. Even if it looks like a tree, the bamboo is just a woo...

29 March 2008
09:02 GMT

5 Issues About Bamboo

1.Even if it looks like a tree, the bamboo is just woody perennial evergreen grass, related to cereals like wheat, corn or rice. 2.The bamboo is the plant with the fastest growth rhythm: 2-3 cm per hour, up to one meter (3.3 ft) in one day. In 5-6 weeks, a bamboo reaches the height of 18-20 m (60-66 ft). For short pe...

27 December 2007
10:32 GMT

What Makes Panda Special?

The rarity and the tame look of the giant panda, resembling a living teddy bear, transformed this animal into the symbol of the fight for the preservation of endangered species. But have you ever thought that what you see is a bear? An odd bear, but a real bear! The line that led to panda appeared about 12 million ye...

27 October 2007
07:38 GMT

Make More Wacom Doodles Than Ever with Bamboo Fun! Not Real Plants...

I have already mentioned some Wacom achievements, so you know these guys are into some really serious stuff. The company is famous for their digital tablets, and this newly released one is not a different kettle of fish, at all.The best part about the brand new Bamboo Fun tablet is definitely its less conservative fo...

14 September 2007
08:31 GMT

Wacom's New Bamboo Tablet Aimed at Replacing the Mouse?

Unlike other products from the lineup, Wacom's latest pen tablet is rather oriented towards the office environment than towards the professionals who need powerful image editing and retouching features. That's not to say that you won't be able to edit images in Photoshop or in other applications, but t...

16 May 2007
06:51 GMT

Bamboo Phone Cleans Itself

A patent for an environmentally friendly mobile has been recently released. The innovation lies in the housing that encloses the main body, thereby sterilizing it.The concept was patented in June 2006 and includes features that are specific to a regular mobile phone. Probably even more, if you take into account the ...

9 May 2007
09:56 GMT


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