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Good Posture Equals More Energy and Taking Time Offline
Unplggd Slinks for 10.26.2009

Better Posture Means More Energy at Work: Lifehacker (and Unplggd contributor) Sarah Rae Trover points out Real Simple's claim sitting with proper posture at your computer can help you breathe more ef...

Concept: Philips Incredible Linked Biosphere Home Farming

When you are living in the suburbs or the country side, it's easy to grow your own food. Veggies like tomatoes and some fruits like apples tend to grow quite easily. However, the closer you move to a ...

Incredible Looking Styrofoam Chandelier: Uses Something From Apple

I don't know about you, but I've never really thought much about Styrofoam. I mean, sure it's perfect for packaging fragile stuff and we all know that it's something that we need to recycle. Sure, kid...

Green Idea: Carpet Laptop Bag When Cardboard Isn't Soft Enough

So, you've got your new laptop and you want to find the perfect storage solution. Something that will let you take your baby around town, without hampering your style. You've also decided not to buy a...

The Incase Bamboo iPhone Case: Made from Sustainable Materials

You know you need protection for your iPhone. Since iPhones spend a lot of time in either pockets or hands, they can get easily scratched. It's one thing that most people hate, having scratched gear, ...

KOZO Lamps: From Plumbing to Lighting

One of the easiest ways of creating a great workspace or home office space is selecting a few great looking lights. Just like ties and suits, great lights can tie together a minimally decorated room q...

eLite: The Easy Energy Monitor That Will Save You Money

Times are tough, pretty much everywhere. The recession is hitting most businesses hard. That means that energy monitors that will save you money are getting that much more interesting. Why waste money...

Solar Powered Cell Phones: Sustainable Phones for the Future?

Until solar panels are harnessing a lot more power out of the sun, electricity will always be a precious commodity. Solar energy is a way to take things out of the hands of the Man and back into yours...

Grass Patch: A Clock that Runs on Mud

We've always heard of eco-friendly gadgets, but none would be more eco-friendly than a clock that runs on mud. Clocks are important. Most of us need them daily to tell time and to wake us up. Even tho...

Green Ideas: Your Own Carbon Neutral USB Flash Drive

We've always felt that wooden accessories are great. They are partly made out of sustainable materials, and wood is just plain good looking. Since USB flash drives are so small and can get taken apart...

Kinesis K2: Using the Wind and Sun to Power Your Devices

We all know that using the sun and wind is a great way to create electricity. It's green and pure. The problem is that there aren't that many devices out that use solar and wind power. Thankfully, thi...

Solar Sunglasses: Charge Your Gadgets on the Go!

One of the renewable energies that we always have on hand is solar energy, and we all know that we don't use it enough. One of the reasons why we aren't using solar energy more is that it's usually im...

The World's Most Efficient Solar Clock

The great thing about solar clocks is that once they are up, you won't have to bring them down again to change batteries. We think that using solar power for clocks is a great idea. Seiko has just ann...

Green Ideas Soil Lamp: Making Light From Mud

What happens when you combine plants with lighting? Something Green! The Soil Lamp is an innovative concept that was designed to nurture the biological organisms that it contains. It's similar to powe...

Green Idea The Cassette Tape Closet: A Great Way To Recycle Old Media

What do you do with all of your old cassette tapes? Throw them out, recycle them or reuse them? There are multiple ways of doing either though, and most of the time, old cassette tapes just get tosse...

Green Ideas: Keep Track of Your Energy Usage

We are all trying to conserve electricity and energy in our homes. It's not always an easy thing to track. This cool looking ecological object is called Wattson and plugs itself into the electricity c...