While most would agree that using rechargeable batteries is already better for the environment than using single use alkaline batteries, Apple has designed a battery charger that presents an improvement over traditional battery charging stations.
With a power-management system that cuts the power when the batteries are fully-charged, the new battery charger nearly eliminates the [...]
Filed under: Environment, News, Technology on August 9th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: clean energy, efficiency, energy, Environment, Technology
On March 20th, a 60-foot boat constructed of plastic soda bottles disembarked from the San Francisco bay area on an 11,000-mile journey across the Pacific Ocean. Aptly named Plastiki, the boat was the brainchild of banking heir and environmentalist, David de Rothschild. Four months later, on July 26th, the catarman finally docked at Sydney’s Darling [...]
Filed under: Environment, News, Technology on August 5th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: clean energy, communication, efficiency, Environment, innovation, success
In 2005, Nicholas Negroponte, co-founder of MIT’s Media Lab and proponent of the non-profit association, One Laptop Per Child, introduced a prototype of a laptop costing just $100 for students in the developing world. Believing the cost was still too steep, India sought to invent an even less expensive technology-based aid for its students.
The result [...]
Filed under: News, Technology, education on August 2nd, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: efficiency, innovation, Technology
A new study conducted by professors Gregory Northcraft and Kevin Rockmann of the University of Illinois suggest that email, video conferencing and other means of communications meant to expedite productivity, can actually hurt it.
In 2006, the two professors co-wrote a section of a book called Ethics in Groups, which talked about forces that perpetuate and [...]
Filed under: News, Technology on June 21st, 2010 @ 7:00 am
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Air traffic controllers use radar to direct aircraft in order to ensure that they stay a safe distance from one another and avoid collisions in mid-air. The technology has been in use since after World War II.
While much has changed since then, the truly radical change in air traffic control is only on its [...]
Filed under: News, Technology on June 7th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
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When we think of mobile devices, we imagine being able to go wherever we want with them and not being limited by the length of their electric power cords or chargers. While this is possible to some extent, most laptop computers won’t last more than a few hours before being having to be tethered back [...]
Filed under: News, Technology on June 3rd, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: efficiency, innovative, Technology
At the recent Intel Developer Forum in Beijing, held on April 14, 2010, Intel demonstrated the use of a pocket-sized device that measures the power usage of home gadgets, appliances and other electronics. The easy-to-use device plugs into any single socket in the home and wirelessly relays information to a partner touch screen display device, [...]
Filed under: News, Technology on May 7th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: efficiency, energy, Technology
Developed by NASA, the US Navy and university researchers, the SOLO-TREC, the first robotic underwater vehicle to be powered entirely by natural, renewable, ocean thermal energy, was recently demonstrated off the coast of Hawaii.
The Sounding Oceanographic Lagrangrian Observer – Thermal RECharging (SOLO-TREC) unmanned vehicle uses a thermal recharging engine powered by the natural temperature differences [...]
Filed under: Environment, News on May 4th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: efficiency, Environment, innovation
Determined to hold on to their title as most eco-friendly car company, Hyundai introduced a new gas-hybrid concept at this month’s Detroit Auto Show. But the Blue Will is much more than just a plug-in hybrid car.
The Blue Will’s glass roof integrates an array of dye-sensitive solar panels designed to collect the sun’s energy while [...]
Filed under: News on March 15th, 2010 @ 10:41 am
Tagged with: Business, clean energy, economy, efficiency, energy, innovation, markets, Technology
This week, Blue Shield of California Foundation (BSCF) announced nearly $9 million in new grants for helping the state meet pressing health needs. The funds will be directed to supporting community health clinics at a time when public funding is shrinking and a growing number of uninsured Californians depend on their services.
Last year, California’s [...]
Filed under: News on March 12th, 2010 @ 8:00 am
Tagged with: Business, Community, effective, efficiency, funding, Technology
‘Younger than Moses: Idle Worship’ is an art exhibit featuring 22 artists in New York.
As part of the European Project FP7 research called “Integrated System for Transport Infastructures Surveillance and Monitoring by Electromagnetic Sensing,” a team of researchers had been gathered from the countries of Israel, Italy, France, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and Romania.