The winner of a competition to design a new building for the China Insurance Group has just been announced, and the winning design is a truly futuristic-sounding creation. Shenzhen "4 Tower in 1," from Coop Himmelb(l)au ...READ»
Marvell electronics is all set to push what it thinks will be the next big thing in household computing: plug computers. Since we're all generating and storing so much digital content in the form of words, video, and photos from our ...READ»
Forget the Aptera, forget even the Tesla: the Rinspeed iChange is what electric-powered vehicles should be all about. For two simple reasons...firstly it's one sweet piece of design engineering, and secondly its main control unit is ...READ»
Solar power seems to be a simple and brilliant solution for the power needs of those in developing nations--it doesn't eat fuel, avoids the problems of janky power grids, and it's convenient. Hence the invention of the Studylite solar ...READ»
Developments in Nanotechnology continue apace, and a new invention using nanotubes promises an eco-friendly approach to both consume CO2 and produce useful fuel as a bi-product.
The device was created at Pennsylvania State ...READ»
John Muir's long walks through the Sierra Nevada mountain range was an individual, seminal event that began a grassroots groundswell that evolved into the American conservation movement.
Similarly, the long term solution to the ...READ»
Samsung's Blue Earth is the first solar-powered all-touchscreen smartphone. The device even takes energy saving a bit further with a built-in "eco-mode" system.
This system sets low screen backlight brightness and duration with a ...READ»
Fuel cells will one day power your car, your laptop, camera and cellphone, but until the day the tech matures enough to become fully integrated, a likely stopgap will be gadget power-booster devices like this new one from Medis ...READ»
Offshore wind turbines are a must-have if the world is to reduce its dependence on non-renewable energy resources--in one fell swoop they obliterate the "not in my back yard" problem land-based turbines suffer. And with the addition ...READ»
Electric cars have gotta be the way of the future with their clean emission-free engines...but are they all going to look as strange as the tricycle-wheeled Aptera? The first pre-production vehicles rolled out recently, and the ...READ»
Brazil's government is about to create the world's largest desktop virtualization project, in schools across the entire country. And it's not just a move to advance educational computing for the country's kids while saving cash--it's ...READ»
LED lighting has long been viewed as a superior alternative to compact flourescent bulbs. Although flourescents are more electrically efficient than old-fashioned incandescent bulbs, producing them requires a complex procedure that ...READ»
The Super X Divertor sounds like some fantasy invention from a 1950s Popular Mechanics. But it's a real device that helps enable two eco-friendly processes: Generating zero carbon-footprint power, and eating up dangerous nuclear waste ...READ»
Eco-friendly technology will take a teeny step forward when Fujitsu announces its Esprimo Green desktop PC in CeBIT in Germany this March. That's because the otherwise-unexciting machine is the first to soak up zero electrical power ...READ»
You know it's hard economic times when a manufacturer sells you a hocus-pocus-sounding stick-on skin for your car and suggests it increases your miles-per-gallon efficiency: and that's exactly what SkinzWraps is. It also potentially ...READ»
Grandiosely titled The Universal World House, a new temporary home is being touted as a solution to homelessness and displaced persons in disaster areas around the world. And amazingly it's made of paper.Well, cellulose from recycled ...READ»
Hydrogen's promise as an incredibly useful fuel has long been known. It's light, clean, non-polluting, and not overly difficult to produce. But researchers have recently cracked a new more effective method for producing the gas that's ...READ»
While Li-ion battery makers in the US are going cap-in-hand to the government in search of federal aid to keep up with foreign companies, it's been rumored that Nissan and NEC are about to invest around $1 billion of their own capital ...READ»
Hydroelectric power has always been a pretty "green" way to generate electricty, simply interrupting the natural hydrological cycle to borrow some of its potential energy to convert to electrical power. Green, that is apart from the ...READ»
The automotive industry may be in financial tatters at least in the US, but progress marches on, and the future of cars is going to be alternative fuels, for oil-shortage and environmental reasons. Mercedes-Benz knows this, so it's ...READ»
With conventional batteries nearly ousted, first by NiCad and now Li-ion rechargeables, you'd think the question of which battery to use would be pretty sewn up. Not so: now comes nickel-zinc technology to shake it all up again.The ...READ»
As usual this holiday season millions of kids will be opening gifts that a caring parent must crack open immediately to jam in batteries before the playing can begin. Since its invention in 1800 as the "Voltaic pile" by Alessandro ...READ»
As well as being the early morning fuel for billions of office workers, researchers have discovered that coffee, in the form of spent grounds, makes a pretty decent biofuel. The Nevada-based team recently pointed out that one barrier...READ»
In the face of a weak dollar, mass layoffs, and the world's corporate giants floundering, what are the corporate sustainability efforts we can realistically expect from businesses in 2009? READ»
Nowadays, with consumers that are not just fashion conscious, but also environmentally conscientious, more and more large chain retailers are jumping on the eco-wagon and offering sustainable styles. Here's a look at some of the ...READ»
