Category Archives: Gadgets and Tech
Solar Medicool is very vital for those countries where electricity is unreliable or insufficient. This provides essential refrigeration for the storage and distribution of vaccines and medicines. The Medicool box has Double Hinges just like the one you have in your laptop connects the lid and the solar panels. The box has a 12V thermoelectric cooling system using Peltier technology, temperature control and fan ventilation. It comes with optional dual back up power sockets are available which can be plugged into the car or a spare battery. It also has three PV solar panels which are adjustable to capture the maximum sunlight and provide shade to the box underneath.
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Since it’s a very common thing these days and everyone wants to save the earth turning into some Martian holiday spot or the breeding zone for robots, inventors and developers are busy preparing things easy ways to save the environment. Australian scientists at CSIRO’s Victorian Organic Solar Consortium (VICOSC) are trying to print solar cells as easily as money. The researchers have found a way to print organic solar cells onto polymer.
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Here is a green concept. If you are one of those who still can’t without radios, go for a greener option, when and if it gets launched that is. It is called the Blister Radio. It is made up of PLA that is polylactic acid, which is a linear aliphatic polyester material – which in turn is sourced from renewable products like cornstarch and sugar cane. So this is totally eco-friendly and you don’t have to even worry about looking the odd man out in holding a radio still as it looks pretty jazzy too.
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Till date I have glow-in-dark stars stuck on my ceiling and I gaze at them to drown in deep slumber. They also get rid of 100% darkness at night as I hate to sleep in pitch dark room. But now I can swap them for this stylish Eco Light Inside mirror. It is actually an eco-friendly photo luminescent material that renders a similar glowing effect when the lights are put out. Simply hook it up on the bed side wall or place it in the corridor to avoid tripping over the toys while on your way to the kitchen for a mid night snack . Pick up from Fingerprint and I Love Me versions and flaunt the most eco-friendly way to get rid of uber darkness.
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To recharge batteries, we normally use another device to do it. But Knut Karlsen thought of an idea of recharging batteries without the charger. He created solar cell. The solar cell is a battery that can be recharged using solar power. The batteries have solar panels integrated into it that recharges continuously if it is placed outdoors. The prototype cells do not have a definite charging time yet but if it will be available in the market, people will definitely patronize it especially those who would want to give their bit of share in conserving the planet.
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Time flies when you are out for eco-friendly adventure and fun. Be it surfing on the waves or climbing the rocks or treading through the chalked-out trek trail, it is also essential to keep a tab on time. And to do so in an eco-friendly style, strap the solar powered Freestyle Boiler on your wrist. Smart and robust, this digital styled timepiece can display time for 12 months at a stretch on a single solar charge. The screen also exhibits the reserved power level along with dual time and day. For $115, Freestyle’s first solar powered watch is also water resistant up to 100 meters.
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It is all about the environment now. Mercedes on their part is releasing their first passenger car model with a hybrid drive system this summer. The Mercedes S 400 BlueHYBRID, the first car to have a patented integration of a lithium-ion battery, will have a modified V6 engine and a compact hybrid module and is claimed to have the lowest CO2 emissions in its performance class, 190grams per kilometer. This also has a start/stop function which switches the engine off when the car is at standstill and when it has to move again the electric motor restarts the main power unit. The person driving the car can also monitor the status of the hybrid drive system.
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IBM has introduced its plans to analyze their CO2 emissions and energy use at any given point. The program is called the Strategic Carbon Management can help reduce up to 50 per cent of CO2 emissions by gathering, managing and storing date about emissions and energy used. With this program companies can get a report on how much energy is being consumed by their organization and how much can be saved.
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For all those folks who are constantly hitting the ctrl P to keep printing their work docs via ink-based printers, here is a green alternative. Though still a concept, Korean designer Joen Hwan Ju’s RITI Printer is designed to feed on used coffee ground or tea dregs to imprint the pages. So every time the user sips on his/her cuppa coffee or tea, the residue has to be fed to this eco-friendly printer. Place it in the ink case on the top and insert the paper in the center. Then manually moving the case in both directions, left and right, will render images or text on the paper. Eliminating the need of chemical based inks and grid-connectivity, this herbal-ink based printer will also keep the docs smelling good with coffee or tea aroma. Now that sounds…..or rather smell good!
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Some fresh breaking green news from the land of rising sun! Mitsubishi Electric Corporation has just declared that it has improved its world’s highest conversion efficiency rate for a 150 x 150 millimeter practical-size multi-crystalline silicon photovoltaic (PV) cell by 0.3 points. That pushes the 18.6 percent to a new world record of 18.9 percent. Constantly working on improving their photoelectric conversion efficiency rate, the company has developed this new method to efficiently absorb infrared rays in sunlight, thus setting a bench mark of this new world record. The newly developed PV cell has a rear-surface reflection structure, which reflects infrared rays that reaches its rear surface to allow the cell to absorb more light. This has helped to improve efficiency in utilizing infrared rays by 26 percent compared to the company’s previous PV cells. Adopting the same low-reflective honeycomb-textured structure, it assists in reducing the amount of light reflected from their front surface and thus absorb more sunlight into the cells.
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