Tag: Appliances
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Smart Plug Monitors Energy Use of Individual Appliances
A new energy management device tracks the energy use of individual household appliances and can also remotely turn them on and off.
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The Avengers Assembled out of Repurposed Items for Target Ad Campaign
Creative ad campaign turns everyday objects into The Avengers for Target promo.
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New Smart Meter Technology Can Tell Your Appliances Apart
A new smart meter technology is able to distinguish a TV from a refrigerator and all of the other power loads in a house so users can more fully understand their energy use habits and how to change them.
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CES 2012: The Connected Home Leads As Popular Theme in Consumer Electronics
From connecting devices to each other to making an entire house's appliances talk amonst themselves, the connected home is all the rage at CES this year.
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5 Green Kitchen Renovation Tips for the Design-Savvy
Greener is easier in the kitchen, with high-tech hoods, skinny tiles, gorgeous recycled glass countertops, and more.
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With Condoms, Tea Bags, Flip Flops, and More, London's Science Museum Celebrates the "Genius of Everyday Things"
The only item mentioned invented by a women was a coffee filter.
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Collaborative Consumption Comes To The Kitchen
Tool libraries are a wonderful boon to neighbors who don't need a hacksaw...until they need a hacksaw. Now the new tradition is coming to kitchen, home of expensive and seldom-used gadgets.
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5 Energy Efficient Air Conditioners to Keep You Cool
In a perfect, eco-friendly world, we would all stay cool by dabbing crystal, cold stream water on our pressure points and fanning ourselves with giant leaves. But in the actual world we live in, much of the United States has been
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Energy Star Releases New "Most Efficient" Label
Energy Star has decided a new label is needed to identify the most energy efficient electronics and appliances from those that are, you know, just kinda efficient. Anyone else see a small problem with this?The EPA has
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Apple Fail: Company Scores Last in Report on Workers' Rights and Environmental Practices
This hasn't been a great month for Apple: bad publicity for waging war on the little guy and the art of self-repair with the Pentalobe screw, the unfortunate news that Steve Jobs' health has taken a bad turn, and now a report
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CES 2011: Connected Homes and Energy Management Take Center Stage
Okay, so it's not as big a theme at CES as 3D TV or tablet devices, but relatively speaking, the connected home is getting far more attention this year than in years past. And this is great news. From the usually crowded home
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EPA Goes Easy on Pollution from Chrome Plating Facilities; Public Health Suffers
Chrome is popular for putting finishing touches on everything from household appliances to military equipment, but it's also known for the environmental and health hazards it comes with.
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Pacific Garbage Patch Plastic to be Recycled Into Vacuum Cleaners (Video)
Electrolux is known for pushing the envelope on design, including sustainable design. And their latest project has our full attention. Pointing out that there isn't enough recycled plastic on land to supply demand,
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Smart Fridge is Not Such a Dumb Idea
When first looking at Ashley Legg's proposed Smart Fridge on Yanko I thought it was another bar code scanner thing and was going to repeat "a green sustainable diet doesn't have bar codes." But it serves a different purpose: it is "for those who have
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If You Wish to Make a Toaster from Scratch, You Must First Invent the Universe
Carl Sagan famously said that "If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe." An apple was a bit tough for art student Thomas Thwaite, but a toaster seemed more approachable. We covered the first
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Do Household Tasks While Asleep To Save Energy
Want to do a load of "green" laundry at 3 a.m. to ease pressure on the power grid and save money? If you live in Canada that could happen sooner than you think. Canadian broadcasters, CBC Radio and Quebec's
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Your Toaster Costs How Much to Run?? Interactive Graphic Gives Run-Down On Worst-Offender Gadgets
GE and Pentagram's Lisa Strausfeld have come up with a fantastic way to visualize how good or bad our appliances and devices are when it comes to using up our home's energy. We know that homes suck up about 20% of
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Whirlpool's GreenKitchen Not a Very Inspiring Vision
Kitchens of the Future sure aren't what they used to be, and Whirlpool's new version presented in Milan isn't even what their own vision was two years ago. It does have some nice features, such as a drawer fridge (we have promoted these because the
