Roundups: Ecomodo - The Best of Treehugger

Published: July 31, 2007, 10:50 am

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This week at TreeHugger: Once there was a little paper company in Finland called Nokia. They started making plastic boots, and that didn't work out too well, and then decided to give mobile phones a shot. That worked out so well that they now have the Mobile Phone Throwing World Championship, held each year in Savonlinna, Finland. Power usage is a hot topic for computer users everywhere, whether its extending battery life on laptops or controlling the temperature of hundreds of systems within a datacenter. Happily, now there's a new tool which can cut your personal PC power consumption almost in half. Part experimentation, part product design, all ironic and wickedly funny, "Off" is the latest from electrical-engineer-turned-designer Scott Amron. It begs the question: hang up your jacket or turn on the light? You can't do both....Lastly, look deep into the Ambient Orb, a groovy little ball that changes color in sync with incoming data; it grows more purple, for example, as your

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