ZTE Coral 200: The $40 Eco-Friendly Solar Powered Phone
Until now many of us know about Samsung's environment friendly phone, Blue Earth. It is made of recycled plastic, and the difference between it and other devices is that it can recharge itself, as it is equipped with solar panels.
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...
Energizer to Release Their First Portable Solar-Powered Battery Charger
This gadget looks like a clamshell cellphone, where the keypad section is replaced by battery slots and the display by solar panels. Some features of this battery-charging gadget will be...
Latest Trend: Human Movement Powered Devices
Remember those movies presenting slaves hundreds of years ago spinning a huge wheel to provide the emperor with water and energy? They did not do it for fun, yet nowadays there are two recent mediatized inventions that caught my eye. Curiously enough, they are being developed by two telecom operators: Orange and NTT.
Einstein’s Refrigerator Using No Electricity/No Freon Revived at Oxford
It seems like Einstein did his best not only in quantum physics, but also in classic, immediately-helpful science. Back in the 1930's, helped by his friend Leo Szilard, he invented a refrigerator that used no electricity at all. Scientists from Oxford are struggling to revive his invention today.
Mobion: High Power Fuel Cell Batteries for Your Gadgets Starting 2009
Just two days ago, MTI MicroFuel Cells Inc. has made a press release for their third generation Mobion chip, a portable fuel cell powered device aimed for small-scale devices, such as iPods, media players and mobile phones.
3G iPhone to Charge from Solar Powered Case
If you ever had a 3G mobile phone in your hand, you know that it sometimes remains stuck on data mode and drains all your battery in a matter of hours (and it heats up considerably, too). The same goes with the new iPhone 3G that has just been launched.
ESL Light Bulbs: Greener Than CFL, Cheaper Than LEDs
Residential Lighting has invented a new type of light bulb, that claims green gains, even more green than the CFLs. The new technology is called ESL (electro-stimulated luminescence). The technology was patented in June by a startup company called Vu1.
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.
Ultracell XX25 Methanol Fuel Cell – 8 Hours of Portable Power for Military Laptops
California-based company Ultracell designed this methanol fuel cell for the army. XX25 uses eight and a half ounces of methanol to supply power for a military laptop for eight hours. It can also be made to last longer if you attach it to a bigger tank of methanol.
