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USB rechargeable AA battery?

Rechargeable AA Battery Doubles as a USB Drive There are all sorts of innovative designs out there for USB dr...

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Solar powered sound system

Our garden has been filled with the sound of music for the past couple of weeks while I’ve been trying out the Soulra solar-powered sound system for iPod and iPhone. The first test for any ...

Advancing the Frontiers of Amateur Astronomy

My latest shoot for the BBC's The One Show took me to the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London. During part of the film, we were in the Altazimuth Pavilion that was built in 189...

A solar energy plane

(Reuters) - A solar energy plane made the world's first international flight powered by the sun on Friday to show the potential for pollution-free air travel. The Solar Impulse took off from ...

Turn Your Cell Phone Screen into a Solar Panel

Turn Your Cell Phone Screen into a Solar Panel We’re no strangers to solar-powered cell phones. Umeox unveiled a solar-power Android just last month, and Samsung has launched three d...

Google Unveils Brilliant Android-Controlled LED Light Bulb

Today Google flipped the switch on a remarkable new LED bulb that can be controlled by any Android device using the company’s new open-source wireless networking protocol. The search giant work...

Solar glass

We love gadgets that serve dual purposes, so when we came across these solar windows from Hua Qin we were giddy with excitement. These window panes, which were unveiled at Taipei’s International O...

50 alien civilizations!

OK, I've had enough. I've been looking up at the night sky for 20 years and not once have I ever seen anything that has aroused my suspicion that an alien visitor has popped by Earth to take a lo...

Virtual kiss and more to come ?

Used to be, when inexperienced teenagers and lonely misanthropes wanted to practice kissing, they puckered-up and smooched the back of their hand. Leave it to Japan to come to the rescue. Con...

Wind industry out of ferocity

Just a couple of years ago, Chinese wind equipment makers were mainly focused on how to compete with global leaders like Vestas of Denmark and General Electric of the United States in the fast-growi...

China leads world in clean-tech production

China is leading the world in vigorously growing clean-technology industry, an area that helps fight the planet’s climate change, the World Wildlife Fund for Nature reported. Although Denmark e...

Can You Disappear on the Web?

Are you sick and tired of worrying about your personal information circulating on the web? Concerned about peers, businesses and potential employers unearthing something unsavory in search result...

Hybrid Solar Panel Generates Hot Water and Electricity

While solar-thermal flat panels are proficient at delivering hot showers, their ability to keep the lights on has been a little dim. Currently, solar-thermal flat panels absorb sunlight to heat...

Car Engine Spark Plug replace by Lasers?

Everything else about an automobile is being retooled to be leaner and greener, so it was only a matter of time before spark plugs got a second look. While they might seem like an essential compo...

Intel unveils 22nm 3D Ivy Bridge processor

Intel unveils 22nm 3D Ivy Bridge processor Traditional planar chip design (left) and Intel's new Tri-Gate technology (right). The company believes that 3D transistors perform more efficiently C...

High-tech tinkerers on the rise

From building robots to creating software apps, a DIY movement is taking root in Singapore This is the rallying cry of a growing number of DIY enthusiasts here who put hands and mind ...

NASA's probe confirms Einstein space-time theories

The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced Wednesday that its Gravity Probe B (GP-B) mission has confirmed two key predictions derived from Albert Einstein's general the...

Pint Sized Energy Harvester Captures Big Vibrations

If good things come in small packages, then an energy harvesting device smaller than a penny must be really great. Electrical engineers at the University of Michigan think so -- they've built a...

Tune in to Nanotube Television

Thin screens for televisions, computers and other big display devices may soon have brilliant, sharp pictures while consuming much less power, thanks to transistors that use carbon nanotubes to d...

USB stick with colorful aurora

Transparent USB memory stick with colorful aurora – The kind of data is recognized with colors This enchanting concept gadget is created by Japanese designer Mac Funamizu, the most pro...

USB rechargeable AAA battery?

Rechargeable Batteries of Continuance via USB Interface April 10th, 2011 admin There’s not much difference in appearance between the Continuance batteries and general eectric batteries, t...

Fly kite to save fuel?

The blue-hulled vessel would slip by unnoticed on most seas if not for the white kite, high above her prow, towing her to what its creators hope will be a bright, wind-efficient future. The...

USB satanic?

Have you ever considered how your choice of peripheral interface conforms with your religious beliefs? We didn't think so, but apparently the members of an evangelical sect in Brazil has, having out...

Portable GPS Tracker

This Portable GPS Tracker is the coolest gadget that i have ever seen. It can be categorized between a USB memory stick and GPS. The data collected by GPS is transferred to flash Memory, which c...

Universal power charger for handphone?

In a major development which can revolutionize the mobile world, soon all mobile devices irrespective of their brands might get a universal power charger. It is to be noted that till date handset ma...

Smallest USB 3 external drive (1TB to 2TB)

When a new or updated technology is launched it doesn’t take long for manufacturers to take advantage and get new products available to buy. That’s the case with USB 3.0 and Freecom look to be f...

10Gbps Thunderbolt smokes USB 3 !

Thunderbolt smokes USB, FireWire with 10Gbps throughput Intel has finally launched its new peripheral interconnect technology—formerly codenamed "Light Peak"—now branded "Thunderbolt." D...

250 miles on a single tank of fuel

Honda's Civic GX should be hitting showrooms by the fall of 2011. It runs on compressed natural gas with a range of 250 miles on a single tank of fuel. It's d...

Spin off from space

What do ceramic teeth braces, artificial hearts, airbags, insulin pumps and Olympics-caliber swimsuits have in common? Answer: they originated in space. All these gadget...