No not the color green but the renewable resource green. Like cellulose and cotton insulation, sheep’s wool is a renewable resource with a twist. Cellulose insulation recycles paper and cotton insulation recycles the bits of blue jean material that would normally be tossed in the trash. Sheep’s wool insulation is naturally renewable because sheep grow new coats yearly.
The Kenguru is a small neighborhood electric vehicle (NEV) that has been modified so that people in wheelchairs can easily enter and drive it. It’s top speed is 25 mph and it will go 60 miles on a charge. It won’t challenge a Tesla Roadster but it will provide independence for a lot of people who have had to rely on others.
It’s January 1, 2012, a brand new year. A time to set resolutions, review goals, and take stock of where you want to go this year. If you are the owner of a Fisker Karma, the first place you need to head is back to the factory. It seems that your $96 K car has a problem.
Data centers give off heat, a lot of it. At least half the cost of a data center is the cost to cool the servers. With all of that heat going to waste, researchers at the University of Virginia and Microsoft Research wrote a paper suggesting that data centers broken down into data furnaces would make great whole house heaters and still save corporations money.
The humble thermostat isn’t the first piece of technology you’d associate with Apple design sensibilities and must-have gadget status. But Nest is the iPod of thermostats, quite literally.
Toyota will be expanding the Prius line to include an updated Prius 3rd generation also known as the Prius Liftback, a new Prius v with more cargo space, a Prius PHEV (plug-in electric vehicle), and the Prius c “city friendly” vehicle. All of them will get great gas mileage but all of them have their own niches.
Apple has agreed to meet representatives of a Chinese environmental group to discuss allegations that the company’s suppliers in the country are falling short on green issues. The Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs has released a report with the stark title “Pollution Spreads Through Apple’s Supply Chain.”
Here’s an interesting question, “Why do you have an eBook reader?” Simple, I know. You probably said to read books. But what does reading a book mean? Is it reading the printed page and looking at illustrations or has it become something more? That is the question that new enhanced eBooks raise.
Indian cheap car maker Tata has decided to segue into making houses. Of course we’re talking about inexpensive homes. The homes that are being proposed will be prefabricated flat-pack homes that can be constructed in just one week.
While the United States government seems incapable of producing a jobs bill much less a green jobs bill, China and the European Union have been developing green economies for the past several years. The U.S. has talked about climate change but mostly in an effort to deny that it exists. Meanwhile other countries have accepted climate change as a fact and have been developing the technology and jobs to reduce pollution, and capitalize on renewable energy.
If you wanna drain your smartphone’s precious juice(s), go somewhere with a high density of Wi-Fi hotspots, connect and download video. In other words, you’ll get battery performance download via Wi-Fi in a Midwestern farmhouse than, say, the middle of Manhattan.
Manufacturers have been working on flexible displays for eReaders, tablets, and phones for at least six years now. There have been foldable or rollable eReaders or phones promised at various different technology conferences but these devices have never made it to market. Now companies like Polymer Vision, Human Media Lab and Bridgestone are showing off new technologies that they claim will be available within the next year or two.
It’s no surprise that environmental campaigners Greenpeace have criticized the environmental record of Apple in a new report. But this time the group is also slamming tech firms that don’t make any physical product.
Facebook has released the design specifications of what it’s billing as a cheaper and more efficient data server. It’s likened the release to the way open source software designs are made public.
The manufacturers of a high-profile electric car are suing the British Broadcasting Corporation for libel. The claim follows an episode of motoring TV show Top Gear that Tesla says lied about the performance of a Roadster vehicle in a test.
An Ohio firm has been showing off a tool that can charge a device simply by the user walking or running. It’s been used on wristwatches for years, but Tremont Electric says its model will work with most USB 2.0 enabled device, including cellphones.
With less than five years to go until Back to the Future Part II becomes a contemporary movie, those darn hoverboards are still proving elusive. But IBM believes there’ll be at least five technological advances by 2015 that are almost as impressive.
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