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Device Draws Energy from Inside Lights to Charge USB Gadgets

Device Draws Energy from Inside Lights to Charge USB Gadgets

What if you could charge your gadgets with the ambient electrical energy in your apartment or office? Enter the IllumiCharger, a light-powered USB wall outlet.

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The growBot Project: Imagining the Future of Organic Farming

The growBot Project: Imagining the Future of Organic Farming

What do you get when you combine robotics and small-scale organic farming? Atlanta foodie Lady Rogue is examining that very question with her growBot project. Lady Rogue is a busy woman! She’s a cook, social provocateur, community organizer, asker of questions and maker of plans. She runs the underground food community rogueApron, its corresponding [...]

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Sprint, Samsung Test Green Waters with Reclaim Phone

Sprint, Samsung Test Green Waters with Reclaim Phone

The new green-themed Reclaim made by Samsung is more than your standard phone with slick green branding — though there’s a bit of that too. What’s green (or blue), smaller than a deck of cards and will remind you to unplug the charger from the wall after charging? The Reclaim, the new green-themed smart phone made [...]

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DIY: The SunCat Solar Rechargeable Battery

DIY: The SunCat Solar Rechargeable Battery

Knut Karlsen constructed his very own solar rechargeable batteries that can sit out in the light and convert the suns rays into stored power. He has documented this DIY project to create the prototype SunCat battery.

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Blight: Solar Panel Blinds and Lights

Blight: Solar Panel Blinds and Lights

The solar panel Venetian blind design by Vincent Gerkens is a green technology that captures solar energy during the day and gives it back at night. Blight is entered into this years Greener Gadgets Design Competition and melds the old with the new. At the end of the month greenUPGRADER will be visiting the Greener [...]

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MIT Innovation: Use Speed Bumps for Better Fuel Economy

MIT Innovation: Use Speed Bumps for Better Fuel Economy

A team of MIT undergrads has developed a shock absorber that aborbs the shock of a bump in the road and turns it into usable energy.  Making use of this energy makes the vehicles 10% more fuel efficient. 

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Recycled Electronics Sculptures Fusing Art and Technology Together

Recycled Electronics Sculptures Fusing Art and Technology Together

Artist Stewart Webb takes high tech recycled materials from computers, electronics, industrial, and aerospace industries and transforms them into functional art. His pieces are all handmade using repurposed materials, and include clocks, sculptures, and jewelry. Any self respecting eco-geek will want to collect at least a couple of his works.

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2008 Holiday Gift Guide Part 1: Gifts for the EcoGeek

2008 Holiday Gift Guide Part 1: Gifts for the EcoGeek

Buying for that Tech-Savvy person in your life can be one of the hardest things you have to do this holiday season.  High Tech gadgets and gizmos can be expensive and if you aren’t tech savvy yourself, it’s hard to tell the difference between geek junk and geek gold.  Well here are 7 choices that [...]

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Green Gifts for the EcoGeek

Green Gifts for the EcoGeek

Buying for that Tech-Savvy person in your life can be one of the hardest things you have to do this holiday season.  High Tech gadgets and gizmos can be expensive and if you aren’t tech savvy yourself, it’s hard to tell the difference between geek junk and geek gold.  Well here are 7 choices [...]

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Project Surya: Solar Cookers to Change the World

Project Surya: Solar Cookers to Change the World

Veerabhadran (Ram) Ramanathan, a professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at University of California San Diego, is looking to reduce global green house gas emissions while promoting the development of the world’s poor. Ramanathan has come up with Project Surya a concept project that would address the challenge of mitigating global warming by introducing clean-cooking [...]

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