Thermoelectric Phone Charger Provides Electricity From Camp Fire
Hatsuden-Nabe is the name of a device that can charge up your cellphone by using wasted heat. It's available in Japan since yesterday and it surely attracts a lot of hikers and adventurers, who think this could save their lonesome journeys.
Formic Acid Charges Mobile Devices Through Novel Fuel Cell
New catalyst, developed by a researcher from Umeå University in Sweden, increases the power and lifetime of formic acid fuel cells, allowing environmentally friendly way...
EnduraLED from Philips Lasts for 25,000 Hours and Saves You Money
Incandescent light bulbs are fading away as their younger LED brothers come to the market and get cheaper by the day. A new innovation from Philips, called EnduraLED, can provide as much light as a 60W incandescent bulb, but in the meanwhile consuming only 12 W from the wall socket, thus extending its applications in the mobile lighting / solar powered territory.
Sharp's 300mW Ultrathin Solar Panel Designed for Greener Gadgets
Solar powered cell phones are more and more looked for in the past few months. Many cell phone manufacturers release solar powered versions of their gadgets. Reacting on this (or anticipating a bubble), Sharp made solar cells specially designed for use in cell phones.
WiFi Smart Lighting for Your Home Could Also Save Power
If the 21st Century is the Information Age, then increasing connectivity is making information all that more accessible. There are numerous ways that we're...
New LED Streetlight Reduces Light Pollution and Saves Energy
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...
Apple to Develop Self-Charging Solar Devices
Apple wants to develop a solar technology for its devices (laptops, ipods, etc). They want to incorporate solar panels in the devices' screen, so...
Move Over Giant Hard Drives, Scientists Store 1TB of Data in a Spoon of...
Advances in the field of nanotechnology have managed to completely transform our portable electronic gadgets from what they used to be. The most fascinating part...
German Institute Integrates Highly-Efficient Solar Cells on Ski Helmets
Look at the picture. What do you see? A helmet, you'll say. However, for the more experienced, this is not just any kind of...
Voltaic Spark: 8-Watt Solar Powered Carrying Case for iPads and Other Gadgets
I've been writing about Nokia testing a solar powered version of one of their cellphones just the other day, and thought it's a pretty stupid idea to apply solar cells on phones since they're kept mostly inside pockets, and they aren't transparent. Today I found out that a company called Voltaic is releasing a solar powered carrying case for tablets - the Spark.
