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Week in Review: Making Mother Nature smile

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This week, DVICE was all green. We took a look at 7 promising new green-power technologies and also the 10 best ideas for greening your home that you've never heard of.

We also did a bit of reverse fortune-telling with 5 tech predictions from 1968 that were dead-on (and 5 that were completely nuts), and Fidgit, our gametastic sister site, added 10 dos and don'ts for upgrading your Xbox 360.

More green stories from this week:

SHIFT: How President Obama could create a New Deal for clean energy
Obama's really giving the power to the people — and he wants to hear from you.

Wave-powered Searaser to store enough energy for 470 homes
With 43,000 of these buoys in place, we could power 20 million homes.

Eco-friendly lightbulbs get a designer makeover
Plumen bulbs: unraveling the ice-cream-like shape of green lighting.

The energy used to run video game consoles could power San Diego for a year
You don't have to retire your console, though you can be smart about how you use it.

Solar-powered Key Hole Light illuminates your door lock for easy night entry
See what you're doing, and make your door look good while doing it.

UbiGreen, a cellphone app that knows if you're in a plane, train or automobile
Watch a tree grow the greener you are — right on your cell phone.

 
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