 Rain Power: Harvesting Energy from the Sky January 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 124 vote(s)
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Researchers who study energy harvesting see energy all around us – we just need to find a way to capture that energy. One of the latest energy harvesting techniques is converting the mechanical energy from ... | |
 Strap-On Helicopter Could Offer Solo Flying Experience May 02, 2008 | User rating: 3.6 / 5 after 77 vote(s)
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Ever since the first human saw a bird soaring through the clouds, our species has harbored a great envy for the freedom that flying gives. | |
 Universal Power Adapter Offers Alternative to Wall Warts July 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 54 vote(s)
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When Doug Palmer realized he had forgotten his mobile phone adapter on a vacation in Mexico several years ago, the first thought that crossed his mind was, "There has to be a better way." | |
 Solar Cells with 60% Efficiency? January 09, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 156 vote(s)
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Nuclear Engineer Lonnie Johnson, best known for his invention of the super soaker squirt gun, has recently designed a new type of solar energy technology that he says can achieve a conversion efficiency rate ... | |
Alternative energy hits the road August 12, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 49 vote(s)
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Anyone who has walked barefoot across a parking lot on a hot summer day knows that blacktop is exceptionally good at soaking up the sun's warmth. Now, a research team at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has found a way ... | |
Grad student invents gravity lamp February 19, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 89 vote(s)
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A U.S. graduate student won second place in a "Greener Gadgets Conference" competition inventing a floor lamp powered by gravity. | |
 Contact lenses with circuits, lights a possible platform for superhuman vision January 17, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 102 vote(s)
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Movie characters from the Terminator to the Bionic Woman use bionic eyes to zoom in on far-off scenes, have useful facts pop into their field of view, or create virtual crosshairs. Off the screen, virtual ... | |
 Toyota's Crown Hybrid Lets You See in the Dark May 31, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 39 vote(s)
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Considering that nighttime driving is often the most dangerous, the new Toyota Crown Hybrid could help make the roads safer by giving drivers a kind of nocturnal vision. | |
 Inflatable electric car can drive off cliffs June 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 134 vote(s)
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It's hard to say what the most intriguing thing about XP Vehicles' inflatable car is. Maybe it's that the car can travel for up to 2,500 miles on a single electric charge (the distance across the US is roughly ... | |
 A plane with wings of glass? June 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 74 vote(s)
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Imagine a plane that has wings made out of glass. Thanks to a major breakthrough in understanding the nature of glass by scientists at the University of Bristol, this has just become a possibility. | |
 IBM Cools 3-D Chips with Water June 05, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 34 vote(s)
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In IBM’s labs, tiny rivers of water are cooling computer chips that have circuits and components stacked on top of each other, a design that promises to advance Moore’s Law in the next decade and significantly ... | |
 Goodbye, Bunny Ears: Future Antennas May be Flat April 24, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 80 vote(s)
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The long, wiry antennas that protrude from airplanes, cars, cell phones – and even the bunny ears on some TVs – may one day become novelty items. Researchers are developing a smart-skin antenna that is simply ... | |
 Luxim's tiny plasma lightbulb outshines LEDs March 20, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 67 vote(s)
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A Tic-Tac-sized lightbulb that gives off as much light as a streetlamp may offer a peek at the ultra-efficient lighting of the future. The bulb, developed by Luxim of Sunnyvale, California, uses plasma technology ... | |
 Silicon Light Bulbs to Compete with Fluorescent Bulbs March 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 73 vote(s)
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Thomas Edison invented the light bulb in 1880, and, since the 1920s, the incandescent light bulb has remained largely unchanged. While that's a testament to Edison's ingenuity, it's also a bulb that uses up ... | |
 Boston Dynamics: Quadruped Rough Terrain Robot Prototype March 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 88 vote(s)
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Boston Dynamics has released a prototype of an all-terrain robot, BigDog. The quadruped robot is equipped with a computer featuring sensors that aid its movements over harsh terrain. The robot is powered by ... | |
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