New Photovoltaic Device Recovers Smartphones' Lost Screen Light
Do you own a smartphone? I do. And I charge it every day, in the evening. I even have a friend who charges his...
How New Self-Healing Circuit Restores Electricity in 20 Seconds
As many of you know, a broken and then repaired thing won't ever be as it was before, no matter how much we try....
The LED Market to See Considerable Increase by 2021
The latest report from Pike Research shows that LED lighting will capture 52% of the Commercial Building Market by 2021. The price for these...
Intel Designs Ultra-Efficient Processor That Runs on Small Solar Cell
Intel researchers have just managed to tweak a Pentium-based processor in such a degree that they made the thing be able to run on...
The Cheapest LED Light Bulb Yet to be Launched in India: See How Little...
Not only the Chinese are able to make things cheap. Now, a consortium of two Indian companies have announced their latest product: an LED...
Spintronics and Straintronics – Enabled Circuit Promises Huge Power Savings
A team of researchers from Virginia Commonwealth University has invented the most power-friendly integrated circuit so far, by combining spintronics and straintronics. The circuit...
LCD Screens That Recover Their Own Backlight Energy to the Battery, Invented at UCLA
A team of UCLA engineers led by Yang Yang, a professor of materials science at UCLA Engineering, have invented a new photovoltaic polarizer that,...
Dengyo Unveils "Rectenna" Device That Harvests WiFi and DVB Signals
Radio signals are mostly used for information transfer purposes, but the energy they contain is mostly left unused, bouncing off the various obstacles until all of it is transformed into lost heat. Nihon Dengyo Kosaku, a Japanese company, has come up with a device that harvests radio signals and uses their power.
Power-Saving LED Light Bulbs Can Now Transmit Data at 800 Mbps
While some people in the Philippines are glad to have sunlight in their homes during the day, scientists from the Heinrich Hertz Institute in Germany have managed to transmit data at 800 Mbps over LED light bulbs, giving them a second reason to exist, besides saving power and carbon dioxide.
New Low-Speed Wi-Fi Technology Could Help Smart Grids Evolve Faster
A company called On-Ramp Wireless invented a technology that uses the same frequencies Wi-Fi network cards use, but modulates the signal in such a manner that it doesn't get distorted by noise, such as the surrounding networks. On the contrary, the Ultra-Link Processing technology can send signals to up to 45 miles and even uses much less power to do that, enabling savings in what concerns both energy and equipment deployed on the field by utilities.
