New Technology Charges Our Gadgets While We Walk
With every new smart phone, or cool portable technology that comes along, the need for having a wireless charger at our disposal at all...
Intel’s Haswell Chip Family, 50% More Battery Life
Intel's new Haswell chip family reduces power consumption by 50% but increases performance by about 200%.
Every three years or so, computing power density doubles, processor chip...
Apple’s Environment-Related Vows Renewed by CEO Tim Cook
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...
Green Device Detects When Your TV is on Standby and Shuts It
This is for those who often leave their TV sets and other electronics on standby, instead of shutting them down or putting them hibernate. I shamefully count myself among these guys from time to time, but I'm trying to recover.
Grad Student Finds Better WiFi Management That Could Save Power
Since its appearance on mobile devices, the Wi-Fi technology has been draining the battery of Windows Mobile, iOS and Android phones continuously. The drain is due to the fact that the more wireless devices are within an area, the more they need to be awake to make data transfers, since so-called "collisions" between them appear all the time.
Plastic Solar Cells: Your Next Gadget’s Cheap Power Source
Portable electronic devices have from now on a new technology invented for making the battery life longer or making them to work completely on solar energy.
The plastic solar cells with eight square inches in size...
Highly-Efficient Laser Diode For Displays Expects Release in 2013
The latest development of the giant Sharp Corp is a red laser diode that has a conversion efficiency of 33% for the light sources...
Energy Vampire Numero Uno is Your Cable Box!
The modern home is full of electrical and electronic devices, just about all of which are energy vampires, that is, they continue to use...
Wise or Not: The U.N. Suggesting Rapid Replacement Of Incandescent Bulbs With CFLs
I had heard that the European Union wants to prohibit the production of incandescent lighting bulbs, but I never thought that would be possible in a short time. Frankly, on the one hand I'd be glad for the huge carbon savings this measure would give, but on the other the CFLs are not yet widely accepted by the eye, their light being much colder and giving your home an office-like feeling.
PLX Kiwi: the Gadget Saving Your Gas Money
Kiwi reminds you all the time that gasoline is money, and you better eat some pizzas with your friends than give the oil companies money for the 5 minutes you reach your work earlier. Depending on the type of car you drive, the savings can be several hundred dollars a year, between $560 and $800, according to the company.
