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    LG Door-in-Door French-door refrigerator helps save 17% on energy expenses

    Refrigerators lose their cool every time you swing open the door to grab stomach-treats, literally. This in turn leads to higher energy consumption to suit cooling requirements, increasing your electricity bills considerably. LG has now unveiled the latest in home-appliance technology, a new Door-in-Door French-door refrigerator with a storage compartment in the door itself. This enables you to quickly pull out commonly-used foods, without having to swing open the entire door! With enough space to store salads, bottles of beverages, fruits and a lot more, this additional compartment helps keep the temperature of the refrigerator stable. Helping save nearly 8 to 17% on your energy expenditure, this refrigerator could show up with a price tag of around $3,500.

    [gizmag]

    Posted in Gadgets and Tech on July 21, 2012
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    Solar Powered Wireless K760 keyboard unveiled by Logitech powers up for three months!


    As computer peripherals get greener by the day, Logitech decided to give buyers a great way to type away in a green and eco-friendly way. Successor to Logitech’s first solar keyboard, the K750, the manufacturer has now unveiled the new Wireless Solar Keyboard K760. Using solar energy to power up via a strip of solar cells on the top of the keyboard, this one hooks on to your PC via Bluetooth, making it compatible with iMacs, iPads or the iPhone too! The keyboard can be paired to three devices at a type and with a simple push of a button users can quickly switch between these. Priced at $79.99, this super-green peripheral works for a good three months on a full charge, without exposure to any light whatsoever!

    [cnet]

    Posted in Gadgets and Tech on May 31, 2012
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    Colorado State University develops solar-powered adventure-sports clothing

    6a00d8341bf67c53ef016304823ee7970d-800wi.jpgWe’ve long been flag-bearers for portable charging systems, and the news of yet another prototype in the works has left us smiling graciously. At the Colorado State University, a bunch of designers are at work, toiling hard to develop solar-powered clothes from natural fibers that could in the near future be the best way to power up on the go. Be it mobile phones, media players or GPS devices, these clothes could pretty much trickle in solar juice and have just about any portable device powered up and ready.

    Posted in Gadgets and Tech on April 24, 2012
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    iZen Bamboo Keyboard for the iPad is recyclable and renewable

    keyboard_box_display3_web.jpegLooking for a better way to type with your Apple iPad? This spectacular design we came across is a perfectly green peripheral for your tablet, making typing documents and data on the iPad a lot easier. Also, given the fact that the iZen Bamboo Keyboard is made from an eco-friendly source i.e. bamboo, this iPad accessory is environmentally gracious. Complete with specific iPad keys that mimic the home button, search and slideshow functions, this portable keyboard comes with a li-ion battery and is made from 92% bamboo.

    Posted in Gadgets and Tech on March 27, 2012
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    MIT designs three dimensional solar panels with increased efficiency

    mit-solar-panel-3d.jpgMIT has come up with an innovative way to up the scales of solar energy production. By simply ditching the conventional flat solar panel design, MIT plans to use three-dimensional solar energy harvesters shaped as cubes or towers. These according to the MIT could result in higher power generation as compared to flat solar panels.

    Posted in Gadgets and Tech on March 27, 2012
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    Portable foldable solar panels enable you to power up green on the go

    1.jpgWe’ve dreamed of portable solar panels before. These solar panels we came across lately called the GSN-160B literally enable you to power up just about anywhere, so long as the sun shines a healthy bright. With a combination of two sheets with a total 64W output, these come with a lithium polymer battery capable of juicing up portable devices like laptops and mobile phones with energy from the sun. All you need to do is lay these out and have them soak in solar power for your use. Measuring 380 × 1,930 × 2mm when spread out, this solar panel sheets fold to 380 × 280 × 35mm making them portable as ever and will be priced at approximately 200,000 yen.
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    Posted in Gadgets and Tech on March 21, 2012
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    Solar3D develops roof tile-integrated solar cells with 25.47% efficiency

    solar_rooftop.jpgSolar panels aren’t really an eye-soothing sight, which is probably why not a lot of home owners choose to have these propped up on their roofs. Now, California-based Solar3D is currently working on integrating solar energy directly into roof tiles. This could indeed help preserve the look of the structure, without tarnishing it with eye-scorching solar panels. Using 3D solar cell technology that helps maximize sunlight converted into electricity by simply locking in the sunlight in the cell, Solar3D’s technology also makes use of silicon wafers with efficiencies of solar cells soaring at 25.47%. A development that could pretty much give the solar energy industry an impetus, Solar3D’s photovoltaics are bound to adorn rooftops soon.
    [gizmag]

    Posted in Gadgets and Tech on March 21, 2012
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    Solar powered communications helmet makes skiing greener

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    Skiing now turns into a greener affair. German tech firm TEXSYS along with researchers from the Technische Universität Berlin and the Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration has come up with a solar-powered communications helmet for skiers. Sporting a solar panel on the top, the helmet integrates stereo speakers and sports a microphone in the chin strap. Using Bluetooth to hook up with a user’s mobile device, the helmet is controlled via a glove-based controller and comes with an integrated lithium-polymer battery that powers the unit. Capable of operating in temperatures ranging between -30ºC (-22ºF) and 60ºC (140ºF), this solar powered innovation gives skiing an added dash of green.

    Posted in Gadgets and Tech on March 7, 2012
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    Ericsson develops technology to help decrease EV charging costs

    img_2008_lo-572x381.jpgRecently, Ericsson, Volvo, Göteborg Energi, and Viktoria Institute together came up with an initiative that could pretty much pull the load of EV owners, helping make the event of charging electric cars simpler and slightly less expensive. Telecommunication firm Ericsson from Sweden has designed a mobile technology that makes it easier for EVs to connect to electricity grids. This enables better control over charging and allows for scheduled charges with the costs of specific charging times being mentioned. Also, the system helps prevent overcharging and helps decrease electricity bills substantially, making owning an electric car a more pocket-easy affair.
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    Posted in Gadgets and Tech on February 27, 2012
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    VLSCI brings super green IBM Blue Gene/Q supercomputer to Australia to aide medical research

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    The IBM Blue Gene/Q, crowned as the world’s greenest supercomputer, will soon head to Melbourne at the Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative (VLSCI). Hosted by the University of Melbourne, this super-green supercomputer will provide next-generation computational capacity for life-sciences research. In short, the computer, also the fastest in the whole of Australia, will help up the levels of medical research and will sport 836 teraflops of processing power, about the same as 20,000 desktop computers. Also, as compared to other supercomputers of its kind, the Blue Gene/Q is extremely efficient and was ranked as the world’s most efficient supercomputer by the Green500.
    [newsroom.melbourne]

    Posted in Gadgets and Tech on February 24, 2012
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