For a long time now, Google has been synonymous with “search”, and in the same vein it is searching for new ways to go green, announcing plans last Wednesday that it aims to wean the US from burning coal and oil for power by 2030. A large feat in itself, but Google have gone a [...]
As the days become noticeably colder and the morning sheet of ice on your windows grows thicker, thoughts once again turn to how to keep warm over the Winter months. You could go the old heater or dot extra blankets around the house for people to drape over themselves at will, but while these options [...]
I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but there seems to have been a recent spate of TV shows and documentaries focusing on the plight of the planet and how we all need to be a bit more environmentally friendly. Well if you’re watching these stories on one of Sony’s new Bravia TVs, there’s less need [...]
Three years ago during a competition at Iowa State University, USA, Mechanical Engineering Student Joe Hyneck invented a handbag - with a twist!
This handbag can charge your mobile, blackberry, i-pod or any other similar device, simply by soaking up the sun.
Joe’s vision was to merge technology with fashion, creating a stylish yet useful and eco-friendly [...]
Air conditioning can be the root of all the moaning in an open plan office with some complaining it’s too hot and some complaining it’s too cold. So what can be done? Well Herman Miller, the US office furniture manufacturer, may have solved the problem with a climate control tool with thermal [...]
Now there’s a new way to get about, they say its sexy, sleek, cool and addictive. On a wheel!
Not just any wheel, its ‘The Magic Wheel’ designed by a Swiss man sick of the Scooter craze. Bored, he went into his garden shed for a while and…………..VOILA!!!!!! Out came this sexy, sleek scooter thats so [...]
Philips has now introduced the new Green Tick logo which allows consumers to easily identify products that have significantly better energy efficiency than the nearest competitor products in the same category as well as having other environmental benefits.
Seven of its flat TVs now display the logo and that will be doubled to 14 by [...]
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Don�t you just hate it when you�re in the middle of playing a game on your Nintendo or Xbox and your batteries run out of juice? You then have to go on a frantic mission to your local petrol station [...]
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Have you ever wondered how much it costs you to leave your TV on stand-by? How much it costs to play your Xbox? or, How much power your mobile phone charger is using even when the mobile isn’t plugged in?
Well, the Plug-In Mains [...]
British consumers are said to buy around 30 million electronic items over the coming six months, according to the Energy Saving Trust (EST). Research by the trust shows Britons are increasingly regarding electronic gadgets as indespensible. In an effort to get consumers to buy more energy-efficient models the trust is calling for gadgets to carry [...]
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