6 green gadgets for guys
These gadgets are sure to score points with the eco-friendly man in your life.
The Numbers LED Alarm Clock by Jonas Damon for Areaware is one of our picks for cool gadgets for men. (Photo: Areaware)
Every self-respecting audiophile has a “system” that a. delivers quality sound; b. drives fellow audiophiles wild with envy each time they walk into your home. The Vers 2X iPod sound system delivers on both these fronts – it truly does “sound as good as it looks” – with a standout green feature: the system’s powerful, energy-efficient class D amplifier and speakers are housed in a wood cabinet handcrafted fromsustainably harvested plantation hardwoods or rapidly renewable bamboo. And for every tree that Vers uses in production, 100 more are planted via a partnership with The Arbor Day Foundation.
Looking to escape the rather limited world of iEverything? Make your next mobile device a phone that runs on Google’s revolutionary, open source Android platform. Android phones boast superb web functionality and a slew of man- and eco-friendly apps to boot. We recommend starting off by downloading the Men’s Health Workout app, PedNav and the super cool Find Green App. And we’d feel guilty if we didn’t mention the Yahoo! Fantasy Football ’10 app for Droid.
A Swiss Army Knife for rough n’ tumble yet discerning 21st Century men, Etón’s crank- and solar-powered Scorpion “multi-function unit” has got it all: AM/FM radio, weather band, LED flashlight, aluminum carabiner, USB cell phone charger and a bottle opener, natch.
From the boardroom to the bedroom, a sleek, stylish laptop computer is a must-have for every plugged-in man. Enter U Bamboo, a particularly handsome collection of energy-efficient laptops from Asus – an electronics company with a serious commitment to environmental responsibility – that sports cases and other elements crafted from sustainable brown Moso bamboo in lieu of plastic (the use of plastic is reduced by 15 percent with these models). We recommend working from your local Starbucks with one of these low-impact lookers … they’re a real chick magnet.
The Powermat is pretty much every gadget geek’s wildest dream come true: a single place where you canwirelessly charge– no plugging and unplugging from a tangled mess of cords – up to three enabled handheld devices at the same time. Designed to meet EnergyStar efficiency standards, the Powermat has an auto shut-off feature as well as audio and visual alerts so that you know what your device is fully charged. A stroke of pure geek genius.































