Earth Day is coming up – 3 ways to power your gadgets a little greener
I’m so loving the concept behind the SecondWind battery charger that Liz covered a couple weeks ago. We are massive consumers of batteries at our house and I feel the same way Liz does each time one gets disposed of. With Earth Day just around the corner,...
Piquing Our Geek: SolarKindle Lighted Cover
A house full of gadgets means lots of chargers, so any way that I can cut down on the wires and the energy bill will get my attention. And that’s exactly what happened when I saw what SolarFocus is launching at the CES Conference this week. I can’t wait to...
Hand warmers go high tech
I remember discovering those little packs of disposable chemical hand warmer packets on a ski slope years ago and thinking aweeeeesome. I also remember wondering just what that stuff was, and what it was doing to the planet. Leave it to some techies to reinvent the...
Eco-batteries, your savior on Christmas morning
After the mountain of wrapping paper I find myself beneath on Christmas morning, I am usually bombarded by kid requests for one thing – batteries. And of course, of the thousand things I’ve gotten to prepare for C-Day, batteries are usually the one very...
Piquing our geek – Recyclable cornstarch headphones
As much as I try to avoid plastic toys for my kids when I can, it’s pretty tough when it comes to technology. So that’s why these headphones caught my attention, well beyond the fact that they look pretty cool. The Noisezero O+ Eco headphones are made out...
Trash you’ll want to tote around
You know what they say, one man’s trash is another…mom’s way to carry her most-treasured iPad. Okay, maybe that’s not exactly how it goes, but these cool iPad cases are rescued and salvaged from junk yards and landfills all over America and...
The Joos Orange Portable solar charger: Not just for Al Gore
After we proudly figured out how to compost scraps from our kitchen without decorating the room with fruit flies, I’ve been looking for other ways to get more eco-friendly. And as a true tech mama, it seems that decreasing my family’s dependence on the...
When are Macs budget friendly? When they’re part of Apple’s recycling program
Back to school in our house means not only buying new school supplies, but also checking to make sure our home technology can handle the new school year. Fortunately, all our tech made the cut, but if I decided to replace my video-editing tween son’s 3 year old...
Printing with Envy
I love that tech is getting smaller and smaller–especially for those of us apartment dwellers with limited home office space. And for a while now, I’ve been eying the aptly named HP Envy printer, which has the compact footprint of a DVD player. The HP Envy...Creating Secure Passwords: The Easy, Step-by-Step Guide
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