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Every one loves their favorite pieces of tech and their great little gadgets, but a change is in the wind: the new focus is not just on clever and more powerful devices but also on how to make a gadget be greener, a new technology waste less and produce more. Are your gadgets going green?

Cycle Crazy: 16 Strange & Amazing Bicycle Concepts

Will the bicycles of the future charge our laptops, harness pedal power or even float on water? These concept designs give us a glimpse at the possibilities.

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Attention: Calling All Explorers for a Martian Treasure Hunt!

Calling all explorers for a Martian treasure hunt! No spacesuit required. We can help discover new alien landscapes from the comfort of our computer chairs. Ready, set, click! Mars or bust…

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Nature of Design: Amazing Art Seen From Above

These incredible natural landscape formations and man-made designs resembling faces and figures are made to be seen from airplanes or Google Earth.

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Hemcrete: Smoking Hot Walls 7 Times Tougher Than Concrete

What if there were a building material 7 times stronger than concrete that's not only carbon neutral but carbon negative? That material is here, and it's hemp.

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Around the World: 27 Fabulous New Year's Eve Fireworks!

Worldwide we unite as one to welcome the new year with fireworks, so here are 27 fabulous New Year's Eve firework celebrations from around the globe.

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Futuristic Vehicles: 15 Concept Cars & Transit Designs

What do the green cars, bikes and mass transit systems of tomorrow look like? They're sleek, futuristic and in some cases, bizarre and impractical.

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Natural Selections: 9 Top Sustainable Style Stories

Environmentally friendly fashion used to be an oxymoron, but designers are catching up to people who want to look great while keeping the Earth a healthy place.

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Trashy Times: Where Do Recycled Gadgets Really Go?

If you thought your recycled electronics were always recycled safely and cleanly, think again. Many end up in toxic, unregulated dumps in developing countries.

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Holiday Hack: Marvelous & Massive Megawatt Displays

Before whipping out the Bah Humbug, stop to smell the gingerbread roses and in childlike wonder watch some the best megawatt holiday displays in America.

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DIY Ecology: 4 Ways To Engineer A New Earth

Re-engineering the global ecology to fight climate change, or shifting the planet to a new orbit...hey, what could possibly go wrong?

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Surreal Science: 10 Sensational New Discoveries

Telepathy helmets, spray-on solar cells and seeing through a tooth: they may seem unlikely or even impossible, but these are real recent scientific discoveries.

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Glaring Answers: How We're Taking A New Shine To UV

Sunburn and skin-damage, sun-cream and sea-damage...can't we make our relationship to UV light a healthier one? You bet - take a look at these examples!

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33 Excellent OLED Energy Saving & Eco-Friendly Designs

The creative possibilities of OLEDs in clothing, jewelry, and art is limitless. Here are 33 excellent OLED eco-friendly designs, from super-sly spy to the interactive.

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Padlocked By The Earth: Cycle Sheds Go Underground

Why park our bicycles in full view, at the mercy of the elements and the unscrupulous, when we can bury them in the depths of the earth?

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A Greener Way To Queue: 3 Eco Bus Shelters

Winter is here: time to shiver in a bleak, nasty cubicle as you wait for your bus? Not so, as these three eco-innovative shelters demonstrate.

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