If you thought going green was over, you were wrong.  Things will continue to get more and more environmentally conscious, and this trend is going to continue well into 2010 thanks to inventions like these, which serve to reduce, reuse, and recycle while not keeping you from being tuned in, turned on, and unplugged.  Some of them will be within your price range; others are out of you price range unless you’re looking for a new car.  Either way, they’re all pretty interesting.

The ones I think that have the most potential from a market standpoint is the nPower Personal Energy Generator.  Basically, it gathers kinetic energy from walking or running and converts it into power to charge phones, MP3 players, or whatever little gadget you might have handy.  Those will be huge next year, because it’s just gathering what is usually lost to the elements.

The gadget that will have the most use in the coming years is the Sony Vaio made from recycled materials.  That’s not going to be a selling point immediately (for most consumers), but as the cost of recycling materials goes down and recycling efforts themselves increase, it’s going to make recycled material more cost effective for the company and only encourage continued electronics recycling from Sony and others in the industry.  Once it starts to save money, everyone will want to do it.