K-Gray Engineering Pathway Digital Library - Engineering Education Wing of the NSDL

Green Gadgets for Earth Day

thumbnail of courseware graphic
read or write comments about this resource
Comments ( 1 ) 		read or subimt reviews of this resource
Reviews ( 0 )
save this resource to your workspace
Save to Workspace
  
Audience/Grade: College Freshman - Continuing Education
Discipline(s): Design
Engineering Management
Environmental Engineering
General Engineering, Engineering Science
Green Design and Sustainable Engineering
Industrial Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Learning Resource Type: Reference - Visuals
Media Type:

 Image
Author(s): ABC News, Technology
Description: Annotated photo sequence of 18 gadgets highlighted to celebrate Earth Day 2008. Image caption: OLED (organic light emitting diode) TVs use less energy than their LED counterparts. For now, however, the expensive televisions are the province of the rich. Sony displays the world's first OLED TV "XEL-1", equipped with an 11-inch sized organic light emitting diode (OLED) panel, which is 3mm thick, at Asia's largest electronics trade show in 2007. (Yoshikazu Tsuno/AFP/Getty Images).
Rating:
   
Usage Tip
Related ABET Criteria: (c) Design a system, component, or process
Use of Resource: A U.S. commercial response to Earth Day. Good examples for students to see for a course in Sustainable Product Design. Some may be "green washing". The students should view the list critically.
Difficulty: Easy
Interactivity Level: Low

   
Version Info
Publication Date: 2008
Platform/Format: WWW
Cost: Free
Download URL: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/GadgetGuide/popup?id=3931885
Metadata: IEEE LOM Record
Collection: NEEDS NEEDS