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Want to recycle your batteries but you’re not sure how? Well, this battery-shaped recycling tin doesn’t answer that question, but it does something almost as good—it puts that problem off until later. In the meantime, your drawers will stay just a little bit tidier. According to the product page, the tin comes in two parts to accommodate batteries large and small—but you could use it to store just about anything that will fit.
Cardboard, recycling and gravity got together to make the Slinky green for the 21st century. The result is the Flexy, which is made entirely from recycled and biodegradable materials, I.E. cardboard. However, moisture is pissed off that it was left out of the mix, and is on a mission to render your Flexy useless should they ever meet.
Product Page: ($18)
This mini recycling bin pen holder will make you look environmentally conscious without having to do a damn thing. If there is one thing that we can all agree on it is that getting credit for doing basically nothing is a beautiful thing.
Product Page (£1.74, about $2.85)
Here’s yet another product in the long line of garbage to gadget conversions, this time for the bicycle lover in your life. Presenting a clock made from reclaimed bike chainwheels that tells time, promotes recycling and can stab you. Since many conventional clocks cost more and can only offer a third of that deal, it’s time to get a tetanus shot and clear some prominent wall space, because it’s bargain braggin’ time!
Product Page: ($36)
Playtime becomes a lesson in environmental responsibility thanks to this recycling truck toy made from discarded milk jugs. Now kids can supplement the garbage truck with recycling and wake up the army man neighborhood at 7 am on a Friday morning to the sound of large trucks and clattering bottles.
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You could get a cute little garden type sandbox for your workspace, but that is not all that much fun (or very true to life). Celebrate life for the dump that it is with a miniature garbage dump that you can run right on your own desk. You get two sanitation workers, a garbage truck, a recycling bin, and a variety of garbage items. Throw a little trash in and organize it into a pile just like a real landfill. The only thing you will be missing is the stink.
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This Starbucks-esque coffee cup is intended to be used as a garbage can (with a reminder about recycling), but for real coffee addicts it could double as a super-sized venti fix. Additional images are available after the break.
The top two items are pretty cool little keychains. I am not sure which reason really draws me to them: that they made of recycled material or that they are shaped like mini garbage cans/recycle bins. They also have the dumpster model shown at the bottom.
All three have snap lids so that you can actually use them as change purses or to carry other small items around with you. Check out the Little Johnnie Pencil Sharpener as well. Pop open the door to the portajohn to empty the shavings. Beautiful.
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ATI has teamed up with the guys over at Havok (the wizards behind Half Life 2’s groundbreaking physics engine) to offer an alternative to the PhysX processor. The answer? How about three GPU’s?
ATI Crossfire “offers gamers a choice of physics configurations rather than being locked into symmetrical setups. This flexible architecture allows asymmetrical configurations as unlike cards can be used for physics processing in both 1+1 and 2+1 setups where one or two graphics cards are used for game rendering, while another card is used for physics. This open architecture accommodates all gamers, whether they want to use a high-end graphics card for physics, or a mainstream card.“
In other words, you can upgrade by picking up two GPU’s and using your old card to run physics only (2+1 setup). ATI also noted that you could run a 1+1 configuration if running 2+1 proves too expensive.
The idea of recycling old cards for dedicated physics processing is certainly intriguing – and it has the potential to have a major impact on PC gaming.
Click here to read Hard OCP’s assesment of ATI’s demo of Crossfire.
Click here to read the official ATI press release.
Posted by Sean
