Being eco friendly even when being technologically sound- is it possible?

Every youngster owns an i-pod, every child plays a video game-technology has evolved and these are common place in today’s world. But whether these are causing damage to the environment is the question always asked.
As awareness regarding global warming and other environmental issues increase, all the world, people are trying to minimize the damage and correct the damage that has already been done. There are efforts to create more green, minimize the use of plastic and other chemicals etc.
The use of computers or laptop creates a paper free work area, which in itself is environment friendly. More offices prefer the paper less work space, communicating through emails between and with outside clients as possible. The use of copiers and other machines have also decreased due to this, adding to the environment friendly drive.
The manufacturers of laptops and accessories also take care to be in the eco friendly group. There are efforts going on to reduce the effect to the atmosphere because of the use of laptops.
Many batteries manufactured now are LiON, and do not contain nickel, cadmium or mercury, reducing the amount of chemicals in the atmosphere. Consider New Li-Ion IBM Z60m-T60-R60-9cell Battery or Lenovo V100/V200 Series 6 Cell Li-Ion Battery, both of which are lithium ion batteries, more efficient and power saving. Sony Vaio X/XG Series Li-Ion Battery is also a new model battery, small and very light weight. There are detailed guidelines on how to dispose your laptop battery as well, so that the disbursement of chemicals into the atmosphere is reduced.
Laptops also have lesser number of components and all the components are smaller in size, making its disposal a little environment friendly.
There are still areas of improvement. With the ratio of people owning a laptop increasing, more effort should be placed to improve the quality of the laptop to make it more natural. Solar energy could be tapped in to power the battery instead of A/C power. The components of the laptop could be prepared with more environment friendly material so that less amount of lead is disposed.