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A computer monitor with a motion sensor? This is great for saving energy but may not be so great for the company slacker! Eizo has invented a new monitor, the Flexscan EV2303W, equipped with a motion sensor to detect when you are or aren't in front of your computer screen. After 40 seconds from when the user steps away from his/her computer the monitor goes into power-save mode. For you slackers out there a cardboard cut-out won't cut it with this sophisticated monitor. It can distinguish between a cut-out or chair for example and normal movement. So when the user returns to their computer the monitor detects it and resumes normal operation. Looks like employees will have to start actually working at work as this smart monitor can't be fooled.

Eizo designed the monitor to be more compact, making it slim, sleek, lighter, and reducing the amount of internal components needed to run the equipment. This smaller design also allows the manufacturer to use less packaging made of 100% recycleable materials for shipping. The Flexscan is also the first of its kind to be TCO Displays 5.0 Certified which means it passed tough requirements (the toughest certification worldwide) on environmental aspects. It has also been awarded EPEAT Gold status; the highest rating from the EPA.

This is obviously a great gadget to help save on electricity, especially if you're pulled away from your desk for an emergency meeting and you don't have time to shut your monitor off, or for those frequent bathroom breaks.

Tesla Motors has brought us the wave of the future with America’s first fully electric car. Why did Tesla Motors create such a vehicle? They state that “electric cars equal freedom.”  It is unnecessary for cars to rely on oil when they can be powered by resources like natural gas, coal, hydro, wind, or solar, etc.

How does it work? Tesla cars are charged the same way we charge our electronics. Simply, you plug it in and after the charge is complete you now have a “full tank” minus the trip and expense of a gas station. Tesla vehicles operate on 120-volt outlets or on 240-volt outlets. The question now is how far can the car go on one charge? The answer is an astounding 244 miles!  The Tesla has even been on a cross-country road trip powering up at camp sites, hotel garages, and friend’s houses along the way.

This past July the Tesla Roadster, a sleek, sporty car, traveled from New York City to San Francisco for the Renew America Road Trip. The purpose of this event was to not only raise money for such foundations like the American Lung Society and the Autism Society of America but to also raise awareness to the public about the importance of using renewable green technologies and the promotion of electric cars. Owner of Tesla Motors, Michael Craner, states “We hope that by driving a production electric vehicle, the Tesla Motor’s Roadster, across the country, we can demonstrate by example that green technologies are here today and do not represent a compromise.”  The Tesla Roadster is 100 % torque, 100% of the time, making this sports car 6 times as efficient as the best sports cars while only producing one-tenth of the pollution. The Tesla Roadster that made the Renew America Road Trip was auctioned off and proceeds went to various charities. Tesla Roadster....the light is definitely "green."