Introducing the EarthDrive, the world's first earth-friendly USB Drive

ATP Electronics, Inc., a leading manufacturer of flash and DRAM memory solutions, announces the world's first bio-recyclable USB Drive, rightly named as EarthDrive. With years of product development and extensive research, the EarthDrive is designed and built using the maximum amount of bio-recycled materials, resulting in a fully recyclable product.

ATP in conjunction with American Forests Global ReLeaf Program - The World's Most Technologically Innovative, Eco-Friendly Flash Memory Product is planning to donate some of the revenues that this new eco-friendly drive generates to planting of trees for environmental restoration.

EarthDrive is scheduled for mass production immediately and will be available in 1GB, 2GB, 4GB and 8GB densities with price ranging from USD $19.99 to USD $99.99.

Read more about EarthDrive here and here

First fuel cell mobile phone to double the battery life

Here is another concept that could shape up the future of electronics. By using fuel cells as a very useful power source, Angstrom Power Inc., a Vancouver, Canada based company, has developed a technology that promises not only to double the phone battery life but also reduce the recharge time in the order of just 10 minutes by the year 2010.

Motorola SLVR L7

Angstrom's micro hydrogen fuel cell

The trial involved a Motorola SLVR L7 and a fuel system that can fit inside the phone without modification. The fuel cell designed on the Micro Hydrogen platform, a relatively new fuel-cell architecture, micro-fluidics, and a refillable hydrogen storage tank is used to provide power. Angstrom believes the technology could be built into phones as early as 2010, although the logistics of refilling/recharging systems is yet to be worked out.

More info at Angstrom Power

First Look on Nokia Solar Eco Concept Phone

Here's an update regarding the Nokia Thinks Green with their new Eco Sensor Concept that I had posted earlier this month in which I had mentioned that the user will be wearing a wrist or neck strap which is made from solar cell panel and powers the sensor or the phone. Well, it is kinda real.

As you can see in the above video, this new Nokia’Solar EcoConcept Phone uses a self-reliant, no plug-in socket required solar phone consisting of a solar paneled case which convert the sun rays into electricity and charges the phone In brief, an environmentally-concious super smart phone. Employing a cutting edge design with the use of innovative eco-friendly materials, the concept phone features a totally transparent touch sensitive keypad. This ultra-stylish candy bar phone is about a year from being produced commercially. The concept seems to be gaining a good amount of attention and can lead the mobile industry towards a more sustainable future.

via: ecofriend and NokNok