For years, Lexon has designed a broad range of home goods and leisure accessories. Lately, the company has turned eco-friendly. Lexon has recently released a line of home goods that are good for the environment.The new Eco friendly Lexon Collection is called the Safe Collection.

The entire collection is made of bamboo, bits and pieces of PLA plastic, and some of the gadgets harness the power of solar energy.The collection includes a solar-powered calculator, LED flashlight, and an alarm clock. It also includes a radio that is powered by a crank instead of electricity. Lexon is proving that eco friendly products made from bamboo can still look clean, sleek, and sophisticated. The Safe Collection was designed by Elium Studio.

Yesterday, I was trying to find tech news that didn’t relate in some way to Apple iPad and, to be honest, struggling.  So instead, let’s take a look at an alternative reality.

Let The Next Web take you to a world where we’ve been using iPads for years and now Apple’s just gone and announced a pocket-sized version with a camera and phone built in.

They’ve only gone and called it the iPhone…I began to reflect on the whole build up to last Wednesday’s Apple iPad announcement.

The months of speculation and hype, in amongst the counter-speculation and and counter-hype.  The rumours allegedly seeded by Apple, along with the rock-solid stories, videos and screenshots emerging from bloggers-in-the-know most of which turned out to be fake after all.

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You know that 49-port USB hub you picked up last year? Sissy. Thanko just introduced an 80-port USB hub to charge all of your gadgets from a single location. Fantasy or nightmare?

Well, first you have to consider the price: 14,800 (about $165) and the cabling chaos this will bring. Then you must know that the hub seems to charge your devices only: no USB data.

And are you really man enough to handle the replusive stares that a device like this will surely invoke from your family and so-called friends? Who cares!

While “green” technology has often been used as much as a marketing catchphrase as a legitimate way to save the planet, it’s undoubtedly an increasingly vital part of the focus on consumer electronics in the future.

With the number of products being made every year, and the degree to which so many are considered “disposable,” the sooner products can be both more energy-efficient and made of safer, recycled materials, the better.

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It is time for this weeks Geeky Gadgets giveaway, where one lucky reader will win a brand new 8GB iPod Nano. The contest is completely free to enter and open to readers from anywhere in the world, you can even choose which color iPod Nano you would like to win, to enter just follow the instructions below.How to Enter

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While everyone these days is wondering what Steve Jobs has up its sleeves to show the world next Wednesday, Frog Design has unearthed some early prototypes from their archives that designers of this company had created for a young Steve Jobs back in the early 80s. It is extremely interesting to compare “Bashful”, the Tablet of yesterdays with the Apple Tablet of Tomorrow.

See for yourself whether Steve Jobs mindset has been influenced with the transformation of technology over the last 27 years, or the Tablet still depicts this same old times concept. Everything from attachable keyboard to floppy drive, stylus can be seen except for the capacitive multitouch friendly screen.

27 years is too short a period as far as history is concerned, but in the world technology where rapid and radical changes are taking places over night, this is too long a period. Since 1980, lot of water has passed under the bridge.

So much has changed since then that this gadget almost gives a “feel of an archeological find in comparison to what we perceive and what we” expect to see from the upcoming Tablet. Nonetheless, this prototype Tablet is something that Apple and Steve Jobs must be feeling proud of today.

I am finally out of hibernation - well, I was on a trip for a few weeks with my family and returned only a week back. Let's get on to technology. 2010 is pegged as a year where gadgets are gonna get more powerful and incorporate everything touch / gesture based and also incorporate a wide range of social tools to your aid - like it or not. So, here's a low down on the top 5 gadgets to watch out for in 2010.

Apple Tablet

Apple started off with the Mac and took off to a new high with iPods and iPhone. The next wave from the Apple camp is gonna be a “tablet”. The Apple Tablet is expected to be much more than your iPhone and a tad less functional than the Macbook AIR. But the beauty is gonna run full stream on a new modififed version of the iPhone OS. Android is gonna have competetion on this front finally another OS that powers mobiles / tablets / netbooks alike.

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The iPhone and Google's Android may be sucking up all the oxygen of late, but HTC today placed a big bet on Windows Mobile 6.5 with the launch of its HD2 touchscreen phone.

The most noticable feature of the HD2 is its 4.3-inch, high resolution screen. It's one of the biggest on a smart phone so far.

It's also the first Windows-based phone that features a capacitive touch display, enabling users to zoom and resize websites, files, PDF documents and pictures by "pinching" the screen - just like the iPhone.

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Many people consider the iPhone the ultimate “smart” phone. Now Google wants you to think of its new Nexus One device as a “super” phone.

The Nexus One offers a sleek handset, the latest version of Google Inc.'s easy-to-use Android operating software and compelling features such as voice recognition technology for speaking e-mails and tweets.

Yet, it's not as super duper as it could be.  Google is selling the Nexus One directly to consumers for $529. The phone's unlocked to support multiple phone networks, but the current version is only compatible with GSM wireless technology. That limits the device in the United States to T-Mobile or AT&T – and only T-Mobile if you want high-speed Web surfing. You can also buy the Nexus One for $179 with a two-year service contract with T-Mobile.

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Research commissioned by UK department store Debenhams shows that the average handbag weight has dropped dramatically from around 3.5kg in 2006/2007 to 1.5kg last year (2009) - this is a shrinkage of 57pc.

Furthermore the researchers assert that rather than modern technology adding to the 'kitchen sink' array of lipgloss, car keys, books, hairspray etc found in depths of the average handbag.

The shrinking size of laptops, mp3 players and powerful smartphones like the Blackberry and iPhone has meant that the busy female can cram more in a smaller bag.

"Two years ago, women were carrying around 7.3lbs - the equivalent of three and a half bags of sugar - everywhere they went,"  said Sue Tebbitts, handbag buyer at Debenhams. "Finally the burden placed upon working women is falling - and it's all thanks to technology."