Gadget demand drives emissions

Carbon emissions from personal gadgets such as mp3 players and electronic devices including televisions and mobile phones will rise drastically over the next 20 years as their energy use triples between now and 2030, states Low Carbon Economy.

That is according to a report by France's International Energy Association, which called on governments around the world to implement policy changes that will ensure electronic devices are made as energy-efficient as possible.

Presenting its latest publication, 'Gadgets and Gigawatts', in Paris, the organisation warned that anticipated reductions in the electricity requirements of electronics could be negated by the rising demand for technology.

SanDisk has added the SanDisk Ultra Backup USB 2.0 portable flash drive to its long line of USB flash drives. This is the first to feature a solution to back up home or office data with the touch of a button, reports Grand Forks Herald.

The portable drive is available in 8GB, 16GB, 32GB and 64GB capacities and comes loaded with the layer of backup support.

Users can back up important documents, music, photos and videos with one touch and SanDisk rates the 64GB unit able to store 45 000 photos, 30 700 songs, 58 100 documents or 144 hours of video.

Google has rolled out a new recommendations gadget that allows sites that use Google Friend Connect to see which parts of their Web sites their visitors like best, says Washington Post.

Publishers can create the gadget on Google Friend Connect's site and then embed the code into their sites.

Once the gadget is embedded, members can then recommend the content they like, anything from a whole page to a single photo by clicking a 'recommend it' button that accompanies any piece of content on the site.