bamboo
Aug 20 2008, Nithya N

Nowadays there are innumerable ways through which renewable energy is explored to the optimum, and a budding example of that is this MemoTrek Technologies Ltd product, the “bamboo USB drive.” I personally think it’s superb, as bamboo is the...

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A boy rests on bamboos afloat on the river Brahmaputra in Gauhati, India, Friday, July 18, 2008. The bamboos, used for making homes and fences, are transported through the river system.