All the stories tagged with eco
Innowattech IPEG PAD Harvests Energy From Passing Trains
12/08/2010, Israel’s Innowattech had previously tested piezoelectric energy generators that can produce renewable energy from passing cars on the highway and now the company has moved to incorporate a similar product on trains. The company is planning the project with the [...]
iFan Keeps Your iPhone Juiced With Wind Power
12/03/2010, We’ve seen various chargers for the iPhone before, but the iFan here is rather different from what we’re used to seeing, probably because of the large computer fan at the top. The user who created this mod claims that it [...]
Concept: Wind Cubes
12/03/2010, Solar power isn’t the only form of green power that can be harnessed to power your iPhone. Designers out there have come up with a concept device called Wind Cubes and we don’t need to tell you what kind of [...]
Grow A Mercedes Biome Concept Car
12/03/2010, We know all about growing pumpkins for Halloween and such, but what about growing a Mercedes Benz? We’re talking about the Biome, a strange concept car that is designed to be grown from seeds. The designers envision this lab-grown car [...]
Chinese Project Converts Cow Manure Into Electricity And Fertilizer
11/23/2010, Dairy farming is a rapidly growing industry in China, turning it into a major new source of greenhouse gas emissions. The Huishan Dairy in northeast China is currently trying to change this by installing the world’s largest system for generating [...]
Toronto Working On Garbage Trucks Powered By Garbage
11/11/2010, Garbage trucks probably aren’t the most eco-friendly vehicles out there, but in the city of Toronto, things might be different. The city is busy working on a garbage truck that is capable of running on biogas that is generated from [...]
EDF Energy Debuts EcoManager Wireless Appliance Controller
11/10/2010, Seymourpowell has announced that its design has been adopted for the newly launched EcoManger from EDF Energy, Britain’s largest producer of low carbon electricity. The EcoManager is a wireless device that can help change the way consumers monitor and control [...]
Re:energy Concept Bike Gathers Kinetic Energy To Charge Your Devices
11/09/2010, Many of us cycle to work every day and judging by the amount of sweat stuck to our shirts by the time we get to work, it’s easy to imagine that we’ve been using a lot of energy. Why not [...]
ViewSonic Introduces Eco-friendly VG36-LED Series Displays
11/04/2010, Everybody seems to be focusing on going green nowadays and ViewSonic’s latest LCD monitor range, the VG36-LED Series is no exception. The series includes the 22-inch VG2236wm-LED and the 24-inch VG2436wm-LED displays, both of which feature LED-backlit panels, a native [...]
THEKPV Solar-powered Bike Features Large Solar Panels
11/01/2010, This doesn’t look like the safest bike to ride around town with, but if you’re hot on green technology, you might just be willing to risk your life for it. The bike we’re talking about is the THEKPV (The Hybrid [...]
Wireless Charging Systems For Electric Vehicles Being Developed
10/25/2010, While electric vehicles (EVs) are great eco-friendly modes of transportation, having to plug them in to juice up the battery is always a hassle. Of course, thanks to the advancement of technology, it might not become an issue in the [...]
Eco: Aeolus Uses Wind Energy To Desalinate Water
10/22/2010, Many people around the world lack access to safe drinking water and researchers are looking to find solutions such as desalination, though it’s an energy-intensive process that requires reverse osmosis of water. Now designers have come up with a system [...]
Concept: Green Spinners To Turn Cars Into Eco-friendly Vehicles
10/22/2010, We’ve seen many attempts to make cars more eco-friendly, but the Green Spinners concept offers a rather novel take on the whole situation. The design features spinners that are attached to the rims of the car and uses magnets to [...]
