Sony’s flexible, full-color OLED
Sony has unveiled what is being billed as the world’s first flexible, full-color OLED display built on organic thin-film transistor (TFT) technology. The 2.5-inch prototype display supports 16.8 million colors at a 120 x 160 pixel resolution, and weighs a mere 1.5 grams.
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Send in your old phones and empty ink-jet cartridges so they can be reused.

Why:

• Every year over 400 million cartridges are discarded into our nation’s landfills with a combined weight of 200 million pounds.
• A laser cartridge discarded today will take over 1000 years to decompose.
• Manufacturing a new laser cartridge typically requires three and a half-quarts of oil – a non-renewable fossil fuel. In comparison, a remanufactured laser cartridge only uses a quart and a half of oil.

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What could be cooler than a pair of handmade, painstakingly crafted, real wood (we’re talking sustainably harvested wood) sunglasses? Using the highest quality, eco-sustainable, exotic wood veneer, each pair is individually crafted with the most modern techniques combined with old world craftsmanship to insure all products adhere to the highest standards.

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ASUS’s new Ecobook laptop looks like a pretty nifty way to lower your environmental costs as you surf the net.

The case for the Ecobook is covered in bamboo, but the real fun is found inside…all of the plastic in it is labeled and recyclable; it’s lined with cardboard; there are no paints, sprays or electroplating used on its components. It looks like it is designed to be easily taken apart for self-service and easy component upgrades. Anyone out there have one?