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Green tech finds (7/6/09)

July 6, 2009

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If fireworks and gas grills didn’t feed your techie jones last weekend, here are some of the latest stories in the green tech world.

Drive time: Danielle Brigada, social media guru at the National Wildlife Federation, just loves the ’10 Ford Fusion hybrid.
Wearable lighting?: That’s one potential use envisioned by art students for GE’s planned “flexible, paper-thin lighting panels” featuring organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). (via OLED-info.com)
The magnet-powered car: Designer Harsha Vardhan’s concept of a city vehicle powered by electrically-generated magnetic fields justifies referring to your car as your “wheels.” (via Treehugger)
Thinking about buying a Wii? Might want to rethink after checking out the most recent edition of Greenpeace’s Guide to Greener Electronics.
Where will you see the next big solar power installation? Check out the Bureau of Land Management’s new maps of areas most suitable for solar. (via CNET Green Tech)
Ready, aim, fire: That phrase may become a fixture in electronics recycling, as Panasonic has discovered it can speed up recycling of older cathode-ray televisions with lasers. (via EcoGeek)
An iPhone app that gives back: Mobile app developer 3rdWhale has become the first company of its kind to join 1% for the Planet. It’s also released a paid version of its app for finding green businesses.
It cleans your water! It makes catfish taste better!: Yep, sounds like a pitch the late Billy Mays might have delivered, but ultrasound may do these things and more.