Environmental groups have been all over the iPod due to it’s eco-unfriendliness to the environment. The Eco Media player may not be an iPod killer, but it should make the environmentalists a bit happier. The device is a video player, music player, fm radio, LED torch, photo viewer, hi-fi recorder, memo recorder, data storage device and a mobile phone charger. So how is this eco-friendly with all of these functions? Simple. It has no need for replacement batteries.

You wind it via a fold-out handle on the rear. (Or if you don’t care about baby seals and Polar bears, you can charge it via a USB cable to your computer). 40 minutes of audio play requires only one minute of self powering.

The integrated lithium ion battery will give you a maximum playtime of about 20 hours. Audio formats are mp3, wma, asf, wav, and ogg. The 1.8″ color screen plays videos in asv, wmv, avi, mpeg and displays photos as jpeg, bmp, gif images. It sports 2GB of built-in memory and supports SD cards to give you more. Windows is the OS when it is connected to a PC. No word on whether it is Mac compatible.

This comes from the inventor of the original wind up radio, which later became the popular Freeplay radio. You can do your part for the environment for £155 in the UK, and $425 in Australia.

[TreeHugger] VIA [Ubergizmo]