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"  Efficient Cellphones With half of its hardware coming from renewable materials and a low-draw charger, Nokia&amp;#039;s 3110 Evolve phone purports to be as eco-friendly a handset as we&amp;#039;ve ever seen. And while you&amp;#039;ll receive it in a box made from 60 percent recycled content, that&amp;#039;s just the beginning: The company is playing up its entire recycling enterprise, which Nokia says can reclaim 65 to 85 percent of a phone&amp;#039;s raw materials. &amp;quot;Lots of phones just sit in drawers unused,&amp;quot; says Nokia rep Keith Nowak. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s easier to squeeze gold from a phone than from a rock.&amp;quot;   Pared-Down Packaging Americans are in love with big boxes. But here&amp;#039;s the bottom line: There&amp;#039;s little that Styrofoam can accomplish that can&amp;#039;t be done with a few pieces of air-filled cardboard. According to Nokia, the box above on the left can do the job of the box above on the right, with fewer dead trees and used landfill acreage to show for it.   Enviro-Tracking For now, it may exist as little more than a tree-hugger&amp;#039;s delight, but Nokia&amp;#039;s Ecosensor concept could lead the way toward digital awareness and action down the line. Here&amp;#039;s the deal: Measuring devices on a watch would map an area&amp;#039;s general health and environmental status (specific conditions are still in the works), then send the info to a phone using Bluetooth or a similar wireless technology. Once the phone uploads data to the Web, it could join that of thousands of Ecosensor users to aggregate, say, an entire region&amp;#039;s lead concentration levels.      RELATED STORIES \u2022 CES 2008: Top 4 Eco-Friendly Gadgets Coming This Year  \u2022 CES 2008: Electronics Companies Are Thinking Green, But Are They Thinking Hard Enough?    World-Changing Water Filters The Lifestraw&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;instant&amp;quot; purification process has been dropping jaws since it was first announced in 2006. From developing nations to the great outdoors, users can literally place the straw to a gross body of water and suck on it, with clean, clear water coming out the other end. A single straw costs about $2 to manufacture, and can filter up to 700 liters of water. The problem? You still can&amp;#039;t buy this thing anywhere in the States, where campers would surely fiend for such a device.   Greener Printers When the HP P1006 printer hits stores in August, it will come loaded with Hewlett-Packard&amp;#039;s new toner formula--one that supposedly uses 15 percent less energy than usual. In addition to its efficient fluid, the cartridge is also smaller, allowing for a smaller printer to hold it, which in turn uses fewer raw materials and less energy to produce. What&amp;#039;s more, the P1006 features built-in idle mode and &amp;quot;instant&amp;quot; awake functionality.   Recyclable PCs Hewlett-Packard says the RP5700 is the &amp;quot;greenest&amp;quot; PC ever made. It is, in fact, the first PC to ever receive the &amp;quot;gold&amp;quot; standard from the EPEAT (Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool). Practically speaking, that means 95 percent of its components are recyclable, there&amp;#039;s a drastic reduction in toxic materials and the packaging is made from reused materials.   RELATED STORIES \u2022 CES 2008: Top 4 Eco-Friendly Gadgets Coming This Year  \u2022 CES 2008: Electronics Companies Are Thinking Green, But Are They Thinking Hard Enough?   "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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