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Eco Factor: Portable wind turbine for home use. Wind turbines, a clean way to harness the ecological and renewable source of wind energy, are designed generally for commercial use. Oskar Zieta in collaboration with ETH Zurich has come up with a...

Eco Factor: High-speed traveling can be eco-friendly too with such bullet trains feeding on renewable energy resources. Since childhood, I have been in awe of bullet trains. Those days, it was unimaginable to think of traveling on such...

Unlike many other sustainable concepts, the idea of a Transportable Emergency Dwelling (TED) is unique and unheard of. The brain behind this project is Craig Mackiewicz, a student who wanted to render a unit built within a shipping container that...

Nowadays there are innumerable ways through which renewable energy is explored to the optimum, and a budding example of that is this MemoTrek Technologies Ltd product, the "bamboo USB drive." I personally think it’s superb, as bamboo is the...

It’s amazing how wind energy can be a beneficiary in so many ways, however the students at Stuttgart University have taken it into another level by coming up with the concept of a ‘wind powered’ vehicle! Inventus Ventomobile, has three wheels,..

Though the concept of using microbes to power fuel cells has been around for a while, the green blogoshpere actively buzzes when some fresh news about such bugs surface. We need to change our perceptions about microbes and redefine bacteria as in this..

Solar lights aren’t new on our planet or on Ecofriend. Over a period we have been covering solar powered lights that illuminate our surroundings. But today is the day for Solar Light from hei. Whispered to be the first all-weather photovoltaic...

So the green look of your new house is all done for this Christmas. Recycled materials (from the nearest possible location to cut down on carbon footprints), lead free paints, an organic garden. What about the furniture? Help is right here. To...

Mobile phones are no more considered luxury. They have become essential and an integral part of our life. Most of us can not do without them. Their utility does not stop with just communication. They have replaced laptops, video games, MP3 player and.