9
Aug
Green gadgets for Estate Agents
For some time now, being environmentally friendly has changed
from being smelly ‘tree huggers’ to something that
anyone can participate in. The western world, although still
massively wasteful, is slowly changing their practices to try and
counterbalance the theory that the world is heating up from CO2
emissions.
As citizens of a planet called Earth, Estate Agents can all do
their bit by buying new ‘greener’ gadgets that will
cause less waste. We have complied a list of green gadgets that can
be used every day in the office.
Water powered Calculator
Water powered calculator? This must be a joke… Well
it’s not. This calculator uses water to activate a chemical
reaction within the battery. All Estate Agents have to do is fill
up the battery with water every couple of months and you’re
good to go.
It is very cool to have a water powered calculator but one of
the web design team at Resource Techniques pointed out,
‘…What about the calculator on your computer?’
– Good point.
Solar Laptop Charger
Laptops have an annoying tendency to use run out of power
quicker than Spiderman runs out of spider web (which happens quite
a bit, and with dramatic timing).
The
Solar Gorilla laptop charger is the answer. With 10 Watts of
energy produced from direct sunlight, this gadget gives Estate
Agent’s an excuse to work in the park or a beer garden…
oh no!
Ecobutton
If only there was a button, that once pressed, solves all the
world’s environmental disasters in one swift click.
Well there’s not but there is something we can all do to
ensure that all our computers are using the least amount of energy
possible when we are not using them (forgetting about the simple
‘off’ button).
The EcoButton
plugs into your computer’s USB drive and puts your computer
into hibernation, therefore saving energy. Another press of the
EcoButton restarts your PC where the Estate Agent had left off.
Perfect(ish).
Battery free-wireless mouse
We were dumbfounded when we first heard about the
Battery-free wireless USB mouse. Impossible right? Wrong.
The wireless mouse is, as it states, wireless. The rest of the
equipment isn’t though. The mouse pad plugs into your USB and
charges the mouse when resting on it. Still quite cool, but there
is no mention as to the length of the battery life in the mouse
when not placed on the mouse pad.
Eco stapler
The Eco
Stapler is so simple that it should have be created at the
start of the last century. It cuts and folds each paper pieces so
that there is no need to replaceable metal staplers, saving
unfathomable amounts of metal from staplers.
The downside is that the maximum number of pieces of paper that
it can clip together is 3 – not exactly for office
use.
Still, every little helps…
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