AoTerra Uses Cloud Servers to Heat Homes, Individually

A German company called AoTerra has developed a method of reusing waste heat from servers by embedding them into households. So basically their customers...

Google’s Motorola Subdivision Develops an Open Hardware Platform for Modular Smartphones

On Monday, Motorola unveiled Project Ara, a hardware platform that will let consumers build their own smartphones by snapping modular parts into a frame....

Scientists Turn Hemp Into Cheap Pseudo-Graphene for Supercapacitors

All these stories we hear about the miracle material graphene, and everything it can do especially when it comes to energy storage, somehow miss...

New Yellow Phosphor LED Bulb is More Efficient and Economical

Typical white light-emitting diodes are extremely bright and expensive to manufacture. Their applications are also limited because of the directional nature of the...

Ikea Unveils Chic Cardboard Digital Camera

Digital cameras have had such tremendous success since their invention that anyone with a cellphone (even the cheapest ones) or a laptop has them...

Next-Gen Microsoft Smartphones Come with Week-Long Lasting Battery

There is no single person (at least that I know of) that has not developed a special connection with their smartphone from the moment...

New Inkjet-Printed Antenna Harnesses Energy of Wideband Radio Frequencies

Manos Tentzeris, a researcher from the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering has invented a new type of antenna that could make harnessing the energy of otherwise wasted radio waves more easy and could yield a higher efficiency on a broader range of frequencies.

Apple Stops the Use of Two Toxic Chemicals in Assembling iPhone

In recent years, the incredible over-production of bigger (and smaller) and better electronic gadgets, has triggered huge debates over e-waste dump sites and exposure...
Quantum Dot LED

Hugely-Efficient LEDs Now Use Quantum Dots

Global warming and pollution are already impacting our lives. There are millions of deaths every year that are caused by them. For that reason, researchers...

How to Produce Electricity with Only Paper, a Pencil and Tape

Device made using a pencil, some paper and some tape, can generate enough electricity to power small electronics, courtesy of researchers from University of Tokyo. A...