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Nokia e cu[1]
1.
2. It is a concept
phone designed by
Patrick Hyland and
the cool part of this
is that it is charged
using body heat!
3. It is made of copper
(Cu) which is a good
conductor of heat.
It has an embedded
thermogenerator which
conducts heat from any
source into electrical
energy to charge the
phone.
4. Last year, when the International Telecommunications
Union rolled out universal phone chargers, statistics
showed that 51,000 tons of redundant chargers, and
13.6million tones of greenhouse gas emissions were
generated each year. Concepts like this phone can cut
down this number
Saves energy needed to charge phones
It is cool.
It can be recycled
5. Easy to charge! All you need is your pocket, your hands or
a radiator.
8. Copper is in high demand and it is not a
renewable resource
It will take a long time for this phone to
show up in the markets.
9. Samsung blue earth.
Charged using solar
panels, made from
recycled plastic
bottles.
Costs $447
10. Samsung W510
It is bio-plastic and
made from natural
materials extracted
from corn.
11. Sony Erickson Naite
Made from recycled
plastic
Has a charger that's
compliant with the
Energy Star V
standards
Costs $159
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phone-using-body-heat-with-nokia%E2%80%99s-e-cu-concept/>.
Nokia E-Cu. Digital image . Slide 3. Helablog.com. 30 Oct. 2010.
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Tempest. Slide 5 Digital image. Blogger. Web. 19 Nov.
2010.
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13. Citation
Pargeter, KJ. Clipart Illustration of a Silver Flip Phone With A Low
Battery Warning On The Screen, Over Black. Slide 6.Digital
image. Clip Art of. Web. 19 Nov. 2010.
<http://www.clipartof.com/details/clipart/25897.html>.
Halloween Treat: IBM Scientists Target Energy Vampires. Slide 7.
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environmentally-friendly-phone/>.
Sony Erickson Naite. Digital Image. Slide 11. Mobilebond.com. June
5,
2009. Web. 18 Nov,2010. http://www.mobilebond.com/sony-
ericsson-naite-and-c901-greenheart-phones
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15. Citation
"Samsung E200, W510, F268. The Environmentally Friendly
Phones | 2dayBlog - Technology Journal, New Gadget
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