Let’s start this new year with green gadgets. Let us make a small resolution that, we will use greener and environment friendly gadgets as much as possible. Considering that effort, I am here to help you with 5 wonderful gadgets which you can buy for your family or gift your friends for the new year.

1. Green TV: Vizio’s new 32-inch EcoHD LCD TV

Most of the LCD TVs draw much power and dissipate equal amount of heat to the environment. But not Vizio. It is a perfectly balanced LCD HDTV that is ideal for living rooms, bedrooms, home office or even used as a computer monitor with its integrated RGB connection. Experience more than 16.7 million colors of 1080i High Definition television performance while maximizing the connectivity of your video devices with 3- HDMI connections. HDMI Cable and Premium Size cleaning cloth are now also included. Though the contrast ratio is still poor with  5500:1 (w/DCR). But it has an incredible 178 wide angle view. So all in all a perfect green TV for your home because it consumes 44 percent less power than typical 32-inch LCD HDTVs.

Price

$499.

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2. Green Peripheral: External Bamboo HDD

* Energy-efficient external hard drive uses less power
* Eco-friendly ingredients and packaging
* Automatically powers on or off with your computer
* Simple plug n play add-on storage
* Turbo USB 2.0* interface, up to 25% faster than USB 2.0
* Also compatible with USB 2.0, 1.1
* Award-winning Fabrik backup software, including 2GB free online backup
* Friendly, free unlimited technical support
* PC and Mac compatible
* One-year warranty

Price

$160

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3. Green Torch: Mini Eco Bike Torch

From the maker of wind-up radio, Trveor Baylis, comes MINI ECO CYCLE KIT ™ is an amazing new development in miniature 3-phase brushless generator technology. Just 1 minute of winding will provide around 90 minutes of 3 x LED flashing light, or around 40 minutes of 3 x LED front & 3 x LED rear blinking mode light. When you are not cycling. The multiple-personality gizmo is also a radio, video and photo player, voice recorder and emergency phone charger.

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4. Green Laptop: U6V Bamboo from Asus

Looks like bamboo has become a favorite for green gadgets manufacturers. But nevertheless this is a wonderful initiative from Asus.  The specifications are as below.

  • Processor & Cache Memory: Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor T9400/P8600/P8400 : 2.53 GHz - 2 GHz, 1066, 6/3MB On-Die L2 Cache;
  • Chipset: Mobile Intel® PM45 Express Chipset +ICH9M
  • Main Memory:  DDR2 800 MHz SDRAM, 2 x SODIMM socket for expansion up to 4GB SDRAM
  • Display: 12.1″ WXGA LED backlight ColorShine,Color-Shine (Glare-type), Asus Splendid Video Intelligent Technology
  • Video Graphics & Memory: NVIDIA® GeForce® 9300M GS External 256MB VRAM FSB 1066 Max.

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Price

Around $1800.

5. Green Clock: Bedol Water Powered Clock

Did you ever dream of a day when you will need a mugful of water, table salt and lemons to make a drink run a clock! All you have to do to make the clock run is fill its tank up with tap water and depending on the particles that are in your water system you may need to add a small amount of table salt. You do not need batteries and so, this had to be in our list to the top 5 green gadgets for 2009.

Price

$ 16.

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So which one are gonna buy or do you have something else in your mind? Join this green revolution to make this world a better place to live for a few more days.