Happy Earth Day – Celebrate With These Green Gadgets

PCWorld: Happy Earth Day – Celebrate With These Green Gadgets

The gadgets in this slide-and-text presentation include solar charging laptop bag, an alarm clock that works on water power and a printer that uses old coffee grounds instead of ink.

“Every day is Earth Day, hard-core environmentalists will tell you, but on the calendar it’s April 22. And if you want to show some support for Mother Earth, you might as well do so without abandoning your techie principles. There’s no shortage of energy-efficient, ecofriendly, or generally “green” gadgets available, but here are 15 of the coolest, weirdest, and most practical, in no particular order.

Voltaic Generator Solar-Energy Laptop: Packing up to 15 watts in its included battery pack, the $499 Voltaic Generator can juice a laptop for roughly 5 hours. Plus, it’s made almost entirely of recycled soda bottles. Looking for a more mainstream solar bag? Samsonite plans to release its own line of solar products this summer.”