My name is Luanne and I'm a webaholic. Okay, now you say "Hi, Luanne" cause you should probably be in a meeting, too.

If you're like me, you'd wear a cyber patch if there was one on the market. For instance, right now the old cat is howling cause she's starving and craving her morning salmon, but I'm busy writing this blog so she'll just have to wait.

While I'm not prone to immoderate gaming (why bother when you can amuse yourself with Craigslist ads), I do exhibit several of the symptoms experts identify as an increasing computer dependency.

When I return home from a long day, I rush to greet my best friend and check new messages, even before greeting my husband. "Hello, lover," I say to P.C. "I've missed you sooo much." One time, when my best friend got a nasty virus, I  just about lost it, feeling completely detached from the outside world. I regarded the technician who repaired it as a superhero, as valuable as an organ transplant surgeon. I kept telling him he saved my life.

Also, because of my dependency, I have cast aside invaluable resources of the past, such as the dictionary, maps, paper invitations and thank-you notes, the Yellow Pages, city newspapers, daily calls to friends and photo labs. Enter Google, Mapquest, Adobe, Huffington Post, Facebook and Evite. Lazy, hurried people unite!

While there are scant Betty Ford-style clinics for people like me, it's clear there's a burgeoning need. In fact, Dr. Maressa Hecht Orzack, Ph.D. of Harvard University, says we're just seeing the tip of the iceberg in society's dependency on computers for information, fun and entertainment. Anyone who's visited a computer cafe at night knows she's right. Guests sit alone, sipping wine or coffee, substituting their ...Read More

In the mad dash to go green, grow green and glow green, some  energetic gadget makers are marketing devices that are so darn friendly, we might as well ask them to move into our homes. Plug into these and see:

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Where would you be without your USB?

These ports are used to power an array of gadgets and gizmos.

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Could Nokia be trying any harder? It's the eco-friendliest electronics company in this year's Greenpeace Guide to Green Electronics (as Liz reported recently) - and here could be another reason why.

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Remember the Green My Apple e-waste campaign that Greenpeace leveled against Apple in 2004? It's aim was to make the technology company aware that having toxic substances in their iPods, iBooks, and iMacs was not acceptable to consumers.

It was a huge success, with Apple's CEO ...Read More

Blink, and you miss a week. That's what it feels like, anyway. And we never got round to telling you about these, did we?

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Way back (er, six months ago) when EcoSalon was first unfurling, we reported on a terrific breakthrough by Super Soaker designer Lonnie Johnson in the field of solar cell efficiency. Now this remarkable step forward in sustainable energy is overshadowed by yet ...Read More

Call me skeptical, but when an eco item claims to be the one and only or first ever, I start to wonder...is it an exaggeration or flat out green washing?

Journalism 101 taught me to fact-check. And for those of you not old enough to remember a time without the interwebs, fact-checking used to require hours of ...Read More

Linen coasters not your thing? Since 1991 Motherboard has been creating functional products from obsolete and used circuit boards that have been rescued from TV sets, audio components, telephones and computers. They estimate they use 25,000 to 30,000 pounds of circuit boards bound for landfills each year. These ...Read More