Archive for category Green Electronics

PediPower Extracts Gadget-Ready Energy from Walking

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Green Designs, Green Electronics on May 7, 2013

Ever wondered how it’d be like generating electricity while walking? A team of students at Rice University have created PediPower – a device that, embedded in the soles of your shoes, generate as much as 400 mW of power to charge the batteries of mobile devices you’re stuck with wearing. The PediPower was born as [...]

Energy Efficient Lighting Industry Blooming in 2013

Posted by Mila Luleva in Green Electronics, Power Saving on May 2, 2013

The 2012 Energy-Efficient Lighting Industry survey conducted by the leading manufacturer Precision-Paragon was released last week, indicating that the industry expects growth in energy-efficient lighting revenue in 2013. More than 4,000 energy efficiency professionals took part in the annual survey. In the past few years, these experts have been extremely accurate in their predictions. Hence, the [...]

Window Socket Sticks to Windows and Solar-Powers Gadgets

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Green Electronics, Power Saving, Solar Power on May 2, 2013

Ever wanted to harness that free energy coming from the Sun and put it into your gadget? If this project succeeds, all you have to do it plug the cord into your window, and the thing will charge! Sounds weird, right? Not that weird, if you take into account that the Window Socket, designed by [...]

New LED Streetlight Reduces Light Pollution and Saves Energy

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Green Electronics, Pollution, Power Saving on April 25, 2013

Light pollution is one of the biggest sources of pollution worldwide. Because some chemical processes that cleanse the atmosphere only occur in the dark, light pollution prevents these chemical reactions to happen, thus contributing to the chemical pollution throughout the next day and so on. New streetlights designed by scientists in Mexico and Taiwan are now [...]

Definity Professional LED Lamp to Replace Incandescent Lamps

Posted by Mike Sandru in Green Electronics, Power Saving on March 30, 2013

A brand new batch of LED lamps have been unveiled recently by Lighting Science Group Corporation with the hope that they would be the eventual replacement for conventional lighting systems. The LED lamp, known as the Definity Professional A19 LED lamp, has a lightweight aluminium CoolPoly construction that makes it more energy efficient, lighter, and [...]

LEDs Improve People’s Health and Wellbeing, Besides Being Energy-Efficient

Posted by Mila Luleva in Green Electronics on March 27, 2013

New research in the field of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) is being conducted at the TU Darmstadt’s Institute for Lighting Technologies, with a main focus on human perception, health and wellbeing. The main advantage of LEDs, and the reason why they are being increasingly used as streetlights, automobile taillights, and indoor building lighting systems, is the [...]

LED Bulbs Get Cheaper and More Competitive Than Ever

Posted by Mila Luleva in Green Electronics on March 7, 2013

Leading lighting companies like Philips Lighting and Cree predict that LED bulbs are soon to overtake the mass-market with their new highly competitive price of $10 a piece. The incredible drop in the cost of the most popular 60-watt bulbs was announced by Ed Crawford, CEO of Philips earlier this week. Just yesterday, Mike Watson, [...]

Kickstarter Campaign for Energy-Producing Soccer Ball Soccket Now Launched

Posted by Mike Sandru in Green Electronics on March 5, 2013

Socket is a soccer ball that produces kinetic energy when it is played. It is hoped that the energy produced can help power off-grid areas across the world. That aim is looking quite realistic now as the team behind Soccket, Uncharted Play, has now launched a Kickstarter campaign, along with a brand new design for [...]

Luci, the MPOWERD Solar Lantern, to Help Energy-Starved Third World Nations

Posted by Leigh Kim in Green Electronics, Solar Power on February 25, 2013

MPOWERD, or Micro Power Design, has developed Luci a solar-powered light created to help the scores of people throughout the world who are either not on the grid or cannot afford to be. Almost 50% of the globe’s population doesn’t have regular electricity and uses sources of lighting and heat that can be quite dangerous [...]

Apple’s Environment-Related Vows Renewed by CEO Tim Cook

Posted by Leigh Kim in Green Electronics on February 16, 2013

In the past, Apple has been accused of not obeying commonsense environmental rules, but that was when Steve Jobs was their master chef. Tim Cook seems to have turned a new corner in his role as Apple’s CEO. More than a year ago, Cook had just inherited the company from the iconic founder, a man so deified that [...]

Electromagnetic Harvester Able to Charge Batteries Using Ambient Energy

Posted by Mike Sandru in Green Electronics on February 15, 2013

In a world where electromagnetic fields are so commonplace with the likes of electronic gadgets, power lines and vehicles continuously emitting the invisible force the fact that this energy cannot be felt does not mean that it is not possible to harvest the energy from electromagnetic fields. That is exactly what Dennis Siegel, of the [...]

Nissan Leaf’s Bose Audio is Twice as Efficient

Posted by Benji Jerew in Car industry, Green Electronics on February 12, 2013

If there any any audiophiles among you, then you’re probably familiar with what it takes to ramp up the sound in a vehicle. Often, this involves ripping out all that stock pedestrian audio equipment and installing a high-end head unit, amplifiers, speaker boxes, and a bass box. Don’t forget ramping up the electrical system to [...]

Super Efficient Nanoscale Wireless Devices Produced

Posted by Benji Jerew in Green Electronics, Solar Power on February 8, 2013

Don’t let anyone tell you any differently, but size does matter. This is just as true when we take a look at how computing power has advanced over the decades. The larger the machine, the more power it consumes. Conversely, smaller machines are more efficient. Take, for instance, the ENIAC [Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer] [...]

Paper-Based Transistors: A Step Closer to Renewable Printed Electronics

Posted by Mila Luleva in Green Electronics on February 6, 2013

In recent years we saw electronic devices including batteries and light-emitting diodes made of paper instead of glass or plastic. Now, the latest innovation in the field of electronics uses transparent and smooth paper to fabricate transistors. This was made possible due to the property of paper to absorb inks, which contain pigments used to [...]

Ten Times Longer Battery Life Thanks to New Semiconductor Material

Posted by Mila Luleva in Energy Storage, Green Electronics, Power Saving on January 31, 2013

Novel methods and materials that can be used in building integrated circuits have the potential to reduce power, which would ultimately lead to extending battery life of mobile applications up to 10 times. This was demonstrated by a team of researchers from the Rochester Institute of Technology, international semiconductor consortium SEMATECH and Texas State University. [...]