By far one of my favorite “green technology” that is affordable is the HYmini, a portable wind that acts as a a handheld, universal charger/adapter. By running, biking or standing in a strong wind you can harness renewable wind power / solar power to recharge almost all your myriad 5V digital gadgets.

The specs on the are as follows: The Lithium Ion polymer rechargeable battery has around 500 complete charge cycles. If the battery is fully charged every time, it should have at least of 1000mAh of stored capacity for you to transfer this power to other 5V devices up to 500 times. A conventional mobile phone has around 0.4Ah to 0.7 Ah of battery capacity.

After 20 minutes of charging the HYmini you can get 30 minutes out of your iPod or 4 minutes out of your cell phone.

Go ahead, show off your green badge. And look down smugly on all of your wall socket dependent friends.

In a surprising Monday morning move, Apple has updated it’s iMac models with Core 2 Duo Penryn processors. Now for $1,199 you get a 20-inch iMac with 2.4GHz processor and 128MB of ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT graphics. It still comes with 1GB of memory and a 250GB 7200RPM disk. The 24-inch model has been upgraded to a 3.06GHz processor. It also comes with a very nice 512MB NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS graphic card, with the standard 2GB of memory and 320GB 7200rpm disk drive for $2,199.

Nice, but is it too much to ask for 2GB on the $1,199 model? If I bought this computer I would have to upgrade it just for all of the graphic heavy programs I run.

Tanya Devereaux (pretty hot) is willing to take your virginity off of your hands if you support net neutrality. And you really have to support it. I’m not too sure how that is proved, you have to over 18 (sorry 16 year old nerds) and you can only go for 30 minutes. Meh, better off hitting Craigslist.

Maybe it’s the mid-afternoon hunger talking but I’m tempted to high tail it out of my office and pick up one of these Egg and Muffin Toasters.(Don’t worry this isn’t an Amazon affiliate link)

Here are the specs:

* Egg-and-muffin toaster makes a breakfast sandwich in about 4 minutes
* Toasts bread while simultaneously cooking a soft or hard-poached egg
* Hard boil up to 4 eggs at a time; individual toasting or poaching option
* Wide slots accommodate bagels and croissants; auto shut-off for safety
* Measures 14 by 7 by 8 inches

It looks like later this summer you’ll have several choices of gadgets that will stream your Netflix purchased movies to your TV. They announced on Monday that three manufacturers will be offering set top type boxes, like the one LG already offers, to consumers.

This is a good step. I believe that with the days of the video store are going to come to end in say 10 years or so though. But you can’t compete with streaming, especially with easy to use devices like Apple TV and companies like LG that can throw their money behind such ventures.