LG.Phillips develops a "dirt-resistant" LCD screen

LGPHILIPS-screen-dirt-away.jpgThis will come in very handy. You know why. Fingerprints. Not just fingerprints, but little bits of food you spit out occasionally during the course of a mammoth in-bed laptop browsing session. It’s OK, everyone sprays a few droplets of gob on their screens a couple of times a day. There’s nothing wrong with your mouth.

Sailing to the rescue of smudged displays is LG.Phillips, which must be…

The ASUS Ecobook will match your kitchen's cheap laminate flooring

Good god. We often fantasise about a revival in woodgrain-covered technology, but the reality is… pretty nasty. No wonder this sort of thing was outlawed by Brussels in the mid-1980s.

This new bamboo-laminated beast is the Asus Ecobook – an environmentally-friendly machine that’s apparently better than everything else because 50% of its components can be recycled. Frankly, the last thing we think about when buying a laptop is what’s going to happen to it when it breaks and we have to throw it away, but if you want something that’s hypothetically slightly better for the world after it stops working and cost more to fix than to replace, this sort of does the job.

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Strap your laptop onto a treadmill, with TheNetRunner, and order pizza whilst jogging!

netrunner-treadmill.jpgLet’s all blame Nintendo. That seems fairly reasonable, they’ve really kick-started this trend for exercising-whilst-gaming/brain-training/surfing the net, even giving other companies an excuse to cash in on the puzzling exercise trend.

$6,500 is an awful lot to spend on the Walkstation workstation which we saw a few weeks back, but for just $99, you can get a…

Sony to give a MASSIVE 1% of their Vaio FZ Graphic Splash Eco Edition laptop sales to green charities

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Nice product photography doesn’t detract from just how lame Sony’s claim is that they’re helping the environment with these Vaio laptops.

They’ve just announced the Vaio FZ Graphic Splash Eco Edition laptops to help quench Greenpeace’s rumours that they’re the least green company around save the environment, and admittedly are completely reaching for ideas. Claims that the ‘slim design for minimum use of natural resources’…

One Laptop Per Child kicks off November 12th, two XO laptops for $399

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We haven’t heard much from the One Laptop Per Child program recently, so I was fairly shocked to discover on my internet trawls that the program will kick off officially on November 12th.

The previously quoted cost per laptop of $100 has obviously been thrown out the window, with a more realistic price-tag of $399 being attached to each pair of Linux-based laptop. The idea is that customers purchase two laptops for $399, and one will be given to a child in a developing country. The XO laptops,…