Canada-based smartphone maker Research in Motion (RIM) has come in last place in a listing of the world’s greenest electronic companies. This is the first time that the firm, who is well-known for making the BlackBerry smartphone, has been featured in the Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics, which was published on Wednesday. The list ranks the top 15 electronic companies by the impact of their products and their environmental policies. According to Greenpeace, the company does not have a target to increase its use of renewable...
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Solar power has become a lot more mainstream in the last few years, with innovations in technology and installations more commonplace than ever before. As well as being able to power homes and large buildings, solar panels can be used in their miniature form to power things like toys, mobile phones and even cars! Who can forget the solar powered calculator that everyone had as a child? This article will take you through some of the weird and wonderful items that are powered by the sun. Here are some of the strangest things: The car that...
We all know that drinking coffee gives us that extra boost we need to get through what we do. Apparently, it does not only work for humans as it also work on cars. There is an actual car that runs on coffee and it recently broke the speed record, making its way into the Guinness Book of World Records. A group of engineers from the United Kingdom has set a new land speed record for a vehicle powered by gasification. The car, which is powered by coffee beans, is called the Coffee Car. It was created by the Teesdale Conservation Volunteers...
Molo, a design firm in Canada, has created a comfortable and cheap housing innovation designed for disaster relief situations. The Softshelter is a system that was designed to create personal space in a communal shelter. It provides people or families with privacy during hard times. To demonstrate how useful the Shoftshelter is, one member of the Molo design team has volunteered to use a Softshelter module located in the Molo workshop space for a couple of weeks. “By occupying the shelter as it is being designed, we will be able...
A 13-year-old teen is about to change the way we use solar panels. Aidan Dwyer, a teenage middle schooler from Long Island, New York, is already an inventor of solar panel arrangements. He created a contraption that replicates how trees and plants collect solar power, and created the most effective way for doing so. While hiking in the Catskills, he took the time to observe the way branches of some trees are positioned. He then noticed a pattern in the branches above him and took photos of it. He said that the tangled branches “seemed...
If you are into the green vehicle movement, or just a fan of environmentally-friendly cars, you will find the Chevrolet Volt to be a very cool vehicle. You can charge the batteries inside the car at night while sleeping for full electric vehicle driving the day after. One of the cool features of this vehicle is you don’t have to worry about running out of juice since the Volt has a petrol motor that recharges the batteries when its power runs low. The thing that bothers people about Full-EV and hybrid vehicles is that they tend to...
Mobile phones have drastically changed the way we live and our lives and are incredibly convenient. However, when we are stuck in a place or situation with a dead battery, it feels like its the end of the world. Luckily, Nokero found a way to solve that problem with its solar panel mobile phone charging system. According to a study by the Hong Kong- and Denver-based company, about 500 million of the world’s mobile phone owners have no access to electricity. One the face of it, it doesn’t make sense, why would you buy a mobile...
Bayerische Motoren Werke (BMW) has joined the eco-friendly car market with its announcement of the new i3 concept car. The BMW i3 Concept is an all-electric city car that features rear-wheel drive. It was announced at the current Frankfurt auto show. The i3 concept is a five-door hatchback with fully transparent doors. It also sports a roof made of glass. The car is capable of accelerating from zero to 100 kph in less than 8 seconds and has a top speed of 150 kph. Its range, depending on the style of driving and conditions, is rated at...
Urinals have not changed much since they were invented. Even today, urinals can be found against a wall or a post and all of them somehow look the same. Only minor improvements have been seen, like the waterless urinals that use odor-killing materials to eliminate the use of clean and fresh water. A designer from Changsha, Hunan, China came up with a new design for urinals called the Pee Pee Tree Urinal. Microsoft’s founder and Chairman Bill Gates previously announced that he wanted to reinvent the toilet, making it cheaper and safer...
We love home made gadgets and love recycled tech and cool things made from rubbish even more. Today we discovered a Buddhist temple that has been built entirely from unwanted beer bottles and we have to say its one of the most beautiful temples we have ever seen. The monks from Khun Han could see their local neighborhood being ruined by countless problems including littering and alcoholism, they needed a new Temple and decided to tackle both problems head on. The locals were encouraged to collect unused beer bottles and deliver them to...