Technology
MyFord Mobile App Updated to Find Charging Stations
With lots of electric vehicles on the road and lot more charging stations mushrooming up every other day, Ford has something unique to offer to you. The company has introduced an updated version of its MyFord Mobile app. The app is majorly aimed at providing the user with information regarding the charging stations and updating them with station database. As per the ...
Pantech Renue is Eco-friendly; Pick Yours on AT&T for $69.99
Taking the eco-friendly route, of late, is an amazing smartphone from the Pantech stables. Hopping on to the AT&T carrier waves, the new Pantech Renue comes across as a green minded device that has been made out of recycled materials. In fact, the Renue is made of 67 percent recycled components and comes in a 97 percent recycled package. If these aren’t ...
New Li-ion Battery Holds Seven Times More Energy
Development of clean technologies has made dependence on batteries, especially Lithium-ion batteries, a lot more than before. They find application in a wide variety of stuff, ranging from electric cars to energy back up storage and also most electronic gadgets like smart phones and laptops. To accentuate these technologies the battery life has to shoot up, without increasing the size. Researches ...
LED Flowers at Longwood Gardens is Bruce Munro’s Latest Work
If you have been to Pennsylvania of late, the thousands of glimmering LED flowers at Longwood Gardens would have made you wonderstruck. The latest work by artist Bruce Munro is also his first large-scale solo exhibition titled Light: Installations by Bruce Munro. The exhibition which began last week features thousands of LED lights filling up the grand conservatory as well as ...
GreenCam Energy-Saving App Uses Webcam to Turn off Computer [Video]
The latest addition in the category of energy saving apps is the one developed by Brazilian company Ecobenefícios. The new GreenCam app activates energy-saving mode, when the user is not in front of the computer with the help of a webcam. That sounds so pragmatic, since most of us take a number of breaks after switching on the computer, we move ...
Intel Inductive Charging Helps Charge Phones with Laptops [Video]
Intel wants to get into every aspect of the electronic field known to mankind. This time they are putting together their efforts in promoting inductive charging that lets you wirelessly charge your devices. The company has shown a prototype of the model by charging a smartphone by using an Acer Ultrabook wirelessly. The power transmitter is made to embed into the ultrabook ...
Toyota Introduces Mutual System for Power Supply between Vehicle and Home
Toyota has made a big move in the hybrid-electric drive world with its new vehicle to home (V2H) mutual power supply system. The home power system has been developed as an equally beneficial power supply unit for plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles. The power supply system developed by the company has an AC100 V inverter. This converts power stored in the ...
Technology Developed to Record Multiple Bird Songs
A new technology to record multiple bird songs at once has been developed by researchers at Oregon State University. The tool also allows getting the recordings in better accuracy than ever before. By recording bird sounds and songs, the researchers believe that they it would reveal further details on climate impact. Also, it might provide in-depth details of the habitat and ...
Clean Energy from a 3000-ft Tower
Researchers working on the old patented idea of Phillip Carlson, has now proposed a tower design based on it. Thus the old forgotten idea of Carlson, which was conceptualised in 1975 is being given wings, which might result in a clean energy producing mega project. As per the design, the tower would be a really tall (3000 feet) hollow structure situated ...
Solar Backpack Prototype Shown; To Help Cut Energy Supply Needs of Marines
Researchers at the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have created a mobile solar power pack (MSP), in a bid to reduce energy supply needs of individual marines. The field tests of the backpack prototype are still underway, but it is expected to get cleared and move on to production. Apart from cutting down on energy needs, this mobile solar power pack ...
