Best eco friendly concept music players to cast the green tone

Industrial designers Chih-Wei Wang and Shou-His Fu have come up with a perfectly pertinent concept - a music playback device that can be attached onto the user’s skin whenever they are exercising or taking a walk. Once attached, the user can switch on the power control and enjoy music without connecting any earphones to the device.

Industrial designer Hoang Nguyen has taken inspiration from the solar eclipse to create an environmentally friendly concept MP3 player that runs on renewable solar energy. Christened appropriately as the Sony Eclipse, the concept uses and integrates photovoltaic cells for its inherent power generation.

With a righteous green aim of reducing our dependence on non-renewable energy sources, industrial designer Matthew Smith has designed this gadget that can be powered by Kinetic Energy. The player features a built-in kinetic energy generator that completely disregards the need to charge the device or change batteries. Moreover, the built-in metal pads on the handgrip allow the user to read their heart rate while exercising!

The S.MP3 designed by French designer Nicolas Cinguion, is a music player that plays green music. Though looking like a regular yo-yo toy, the radical technology imbibed in this gadget is truly innovative. When the string of the player is stretched, the resultant energy is converted into useful electricity, which then charges the built-in batteries.

Contrived by UK designer Tom Mascall, this MP3 Player combines the usage of power supplied by electromagnetic induction with an exclusive design that interestingly encourages the user to literally play with it. Inside one of the main sections of this device, there is an electromagnetic inducer which converts any motion or vibration into an electric charge. So the more the device is twirled, twisted and played with, the more the charge is produced!

Conceived by designers Chris Aimone and Tomek Bartczak, Regen is another such music player that ingeniously utilizes the power drawn from the resultant kinetic energy, when a pull is given to its yo-yo string. Also equipped with an USB port, the surface of the yo-yo displays touchscreen functions like play, skip and stop. The jog wheel takes care of the forward and volume.

Designed by Kenneth Tay, this prolific music player charges itself, by exploiting the kinetic energy produced by the motion, that is "shaking" of the body. An electromagnetic coil is connected to the battery, converting kinetic energy into electrical energy that charges the battery. The player connects to the computer via a USB cable through the headphone jack, making it easy to transfer songs as well as supporting conventional method of charging.

Devised by Zhiliang Chen from Hong Kong, this music player is based upon the key dictum of espousing low energy consuming technology. Basically the gadget can power itself up using clean green energy, and in effect causing nil pollution.

The Walnut Player, conceived by industrial designer YuKwang Kang, works on the principle to gather enough of renewable electricity when rolled (in the process converting the kinetic energy) to produce the sweetest tunes for visually impaired audiophiles. While making its user to comprehend Braille writing, the Walnut Player produces energy when he or she presses the sole button or the entire device with finger. Same actions are to be applied, to change tracks and adjust speaker volume.

Designed by Inesa Malafej and Arunas Sukarevicius from Lithuania, this is another one of the innovative music players that utilizes motion - kinetic energy. The state of the art inverse dynamism of "Dancepants" fuels you to exercise in order to hear your beloved music. So as long as one keeps running or dancing he or she can be sure of not running out of battery.