Hernando Barragan has entered his Social-environmental Station into this years Greener Gadgets Design Competition. Though labeled as a traffic light, the system isn’t intended to control cars. The lights are to be an innovative means of informing the public about poorly understood environmental conditions: a very green gadget. Barragan hopes that by displaying this environmental [...]

I am a big admirer of Stanford R. Ovshinsky, an American inventor and scientist. He is the creator of Energy Conversion Devices, a cutting edge invention and development laboratory which has produced some of the most innovative technology of the past century. Some of his inventions include flat screen LCDs, rewritable CDs and DVDs, hydrogen [...]

This little invention really made my smile. No one would argue that weeding is a less than comfortable task. You get hot and worn out quite quickly. For me, my knees start to hurt and my back becomes really stiff. All of those complaints aside, this seems like comedic alternative. I guess this Aussi inventor [...]

A new application of solar technology has been gaining popularity: The Solar Powered Air Conditioner. One of the leading companies is Silicon Valley startup Chromasun, who has developed a rooftop version of the solar air conditioner. Large building consume enormous quantities of energy, especially in the effort of heating and cooling its floors. By finding [...]

Tesla Motors first made it’s mark with the development of the Tesla Roadster, a high-performance electric vehicle raved as the next generation of private transportation. The car is sleek and well engineered, but with a price tag of $100,000+, the Roadster isn’t exactly consumer friendly. Recently, Toyota announced plans to invest $50 million in the [...]

Popular science suggests that it takes a plastic water bottle 450 to 1000 years to completely biodegrade. To make matters worse, the compounds that common plastics breaks down to can be described as hazardous at best. The actual amount of time depends on the conditions the bottles are placed in, but the message should be [...]

A window farm is an affordable and space efficient way of growing produce of your own. The idea has been pioneered, as far as I can tell, by WindowFarms.org. With the tag-line of “hydroponic edible gardens for urban windows,” the site provides a free and easy to follow manual so that anyone can construct a [...]

The MetalCell (which originally appeared in an issue of Popular Science) is all over the blogs, but I cannot find where the product can actually be purchased (or any details about the voltage produced by the cell). Anonymity withstanding, the idea of an emergency power source that can run off of saltwater or urine is [...]

Little do consumers realize that most electronic devices are using up energy as long as they are plugged in. That means that your TV and home theater are wasting power while they are turned off. The popular term for this quiet energy consumption is Vampire Energy. There has certainly been a recent increase in public [...]