These days the act of charging gadgets is turning green especially with an array of alternative options on the platform. In no doubt, Hydrogen is touted to be the safest, easy-to-use and one of the most accessible fuels. Combined with fuel cells,...
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Another out of the ordinary application of Sun’s energy is to power kilns. Piñon Jorge Pineda, a researcher at the National Polytechnic Institute, has come up with a solar powered kiln for firing clay that generated no damaging emissions. This high...
The higher you are from sea level, the lesser is the temperature……a universal known fact it is. But capturing this coolness and redirecting it to a place where it’s needed the most is a novel idea. That’s exactly what designers Adrian Smith...
Oceans have tremendous untapped potential for power generation which technology firms have been trying to harness for quite some now. Despite all these efforts, harnessing the Ocean's huge power hasn't been very successful till date. Now an...
The Green Jet that designer Erik Sifrer has put together is one concept that the fat cats who want to make a green statement will eagerly anticipate. This 187 foot mega sail yacht runs both on wind and hydrogen power which instantly makes it a planet...
More often than not, we forget to switch off the power supply of many household devices after we finish using them. Here is a smart energy saving concept that will come to your rescue and will turn off the device on standby with a single touch of...
If you wanna startle people around you but with a green thumb then here’s a bright idea. Take a look at this wearable, portable square-wave synthesizer that is -specifically designed to be worn around your wrist. And why would anyone want to wear...
Remember how the best toys we got as kids were the wind-up ones that didn’t go limp if the lights went out or if their batteries died? Well, this electronics company has applied the same wind-up technology to men’s shaving machines and the result...
Svepa is an idea for a bicycle; a bike for urban landscape. It is noticeable for its unique design as much as for what it proposes. Not only does it combine plywood and aluminum in its make (a rare feat in itself) but it also proposes to allow for...
How much green is really green? This is a question that Japanese electronics major NEC will have a lot of difficulty in answering. This, because NEC has made some rather tall claims about its green credentials by including an Eco button in its Type...
Environmentalists have been pushing the idea of traveling by bicycles to reduce wastes and (according to me) reduce inches around our waist too. But we have been always avoiding this green option for many reasons (best known to us). So Frag Woodall,...
Move over monstrous windmills that tower over most structures around them, inventor Doug Selsam has invented these tiny turbines that pack in quite some power. These wind turbines just measure fourteen to twenty inches in diameter and are meant to be...
So you want plants but don’t have the good fortune of having a real apartment with real sunlight? Then these cybernetic plants with surgically implanted LEDs giving them all the light they want to photosynthesize are just tailor-made for you, pun...
Black briefcases are usually carried around by the swish corporate types and how can we forget the FBI agents. But now, British electronics retailer Maplin is carrying a ubiquitous briefcase that has a very different function. This time around, the...
UPS is adding on to its number of alternative-fuel vehicles and thus moving towards reducing its carbon footprint on our terra firma. It has just ordered 200 hybrid electric vehicles, that is believed to be the largest commercial order of such trucks...
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