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How many times have I left home, gone to use my mobile… No power…Doh.  Well no more, charging a mobile phone has really moved into the green arena. Can you imagine my excitement when Nokia broke the news that they are launching a new eco way of charging your mobile phone…whilst cycling!  Yes we can… Continue reading Get Cycling, Get Fit And Charge Your Mobile Phone At The Same Time

Green mobile phones can be things of great beauty and Nokia’s new ‘Kinetic’ phone does us proud.  Designed by Jeremy Innes-Hopkins as a concept phone for the Finnish manufacturer.  It’s a dandy.  And here’s how it works, when you receive a call, the phone gradually rises up to the prone position.  And if you don’t… Continue reading Arise Sir Phone

Virgin Atlantic, a fleet of planes which fly across the world from a range of British airports, including Edinburgh, London Heathrow and Manchester, will be kitted out with the latest in-flight entertainment systems through a close partnership with Panasonic. Revealed at a press conference as the company celebrated its tenth year of flying to Las… Continue reading Virgin Flights To Allow Mobile Phone Calls

Forget processor speeds for a moment, forget how fast a device can go, what you’ll be able to do with the software and how most devices in the future will promise to be a gateway to another world. And its good news to see that just what your mobile phone is made of is at… Continue reading What Will Mobile Phones Be Made Of In 2015

If you were going to circumnavigate the globe on a bicycle over the next 4-5 years… how would stay in touch? Just how would you let people know where you were? For sure you would use a mobile phone, but how would charge it? Well these are just some of the questions that Joseph Ascencao… Continue reading Joseph Ascencao And The Greenest Mobile Phone Ever

The world’s first dishwasher safe mobile phone has been announced by Seal Shield. The New Seal Cell mobile phone is washable and antimicrobial; it is easy to clean in a sink or a dishwasher, which can help prevent the spread of germs, viruses and bacteria. The mobile phone has been created by the healthcare company… Continue reading Dishwasher Safe Mobile Phone Announced

For you and I living in the west, when our state of the art smartphone is showing red by lunchtime, their is always a power socket close-by so that we recharge it.  But in Sub-Saharan Africa, it’s a very different story, with some 500 million people living in low power regions, it is often the… Continue reading Dirty Talk Is Cheap Power For Charging Mobiles

Its official there are now 7 billion people on the planet. And by the end of next year there will be more mobile phones switched on than people on earth – that’s an awful lot of phones. So whose got the most phones? Well both China and India could have more than 1 billion mobile… Continue reading More Mobiles Than People Worldwide

The NoPoPo (non-pollution power) Aqua Battery is from Japan, and can charge using almost any liquid from beer, juice, coca-cola; and yes you can even use urine if you so feel inclined to!  So how does it work?  Well, you just put the battery into a liquid and then, using the syringe to suck it… Continue reading The Battery That Runs On Water

What can make more sense than to make your bicycle the hub to powering up your mobile phone whilst on your way to work? Well that’s exactly what the German bicycle manufacturer Silverback have gone and done.   They taken the principle of cycling to work and made it a really green option with their… Continue reading German Cycle Power For Your Mobile Phone