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How "Green" Are Your Gadgets?

The Motorola W233 renew cell phone is seen at the Motorola booth at the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada January 9, 2009. The renew phone, made from recycled plastic water bottles, is the world's first certified carbon-free phone. (REUTERS/Rick Wilking)

LAS VEGAS - Green is in like never before at this year's Consumer Electronics Show, with 3,000 square feet of dedicated floor space and companies touting the energy-saving, earth-friendly attributes of their gadgets.

On display are "eco-buttons" that reduce your computer's power consumption, e-lanterns that produce an hour's worth of light if you crank them for a minute, luminous TV screens that use far less energy than standard TVs and even mercury-free batteries that are 94 percent recyclable.

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