Tag: Electronics - Page 5
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Kindle Fire HD Earns High Ratings In Repairability From iFixit
The new tablet device gets the thumbs up after being torn apart piece by piece.
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SkyCube: A Nano-Satellite That Lets You Tweet From Space
A teensy tinsy satellite is the first to be collectively owned by 2,400 people and will give you your own bird's eye view of the planet.
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Your Office is in your Pants: Is The Nexphone the Device That Will Make It Possible To Put Your Office in your Pocket?
The phone becomes the computer, plugging into accessories as needed. Is this a good thing?
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What You Can Get for Your Old Kindle
If you're upgrading to one of the new Kindle devices and want to recycle your old one, here are the current resell rates for some of the previous models.
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5 Places to Resell Your Old Kindle
With the release of the new versions of the Kindle and Kindle Fire, you may be tempted to upgrade. If you do, here are five places to resell your old one and extend its life.
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Energy Orb Kicks You Off Your Computer Until You Ride Your Bike
Looking for a solution to better work-life balance? This orb will kick you off your computer and make you take a break to go ride a bike to recharge both you and it.
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How Peanut Butter Can Fix a Scratched DVD
No more ruined movie nights. It turns out the solution to scratched DVDs may be closer to hand than you realize.
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Mitsubishi’s New Air Conditioner Turns Off When You’re Not Home
According to Mitsubishi, the new ZW series air conditioners will feature a "Smart Stop System" that uses infrared sensors to determine if there's a human body in the room at any given time.
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Top 6 Common Myths About Smart Meter Danger Exposed
Before you start crafting your tinfoil hat, take some time to get the facts.
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Wireless Car Charging In Action
Robert Llewellun checks out what might be the future of electric car charing. And he is very, very impressed.
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K-TOR Hand Crank Generator Puts A Socket In Your Pocket
Instead of wondering if your batteries have enough juice to see you through an emergency, why not carry an electrical socket in your pocket?
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A Modern LED Design Even Edison Would Appreciate
A new design for the LED harkens back to the shape of the incandescent bulb we all know and love.
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Use Your Houseplant to Control Your Computer
Botanicus Interacticus is a project that would like to turn your fern into a computing tool, or even a electronic musical instrument.
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ReliaTech Offers 100 Paid Internships To Boost E-Waste Recycling
E-waste is the fastest growing waste stream in the world, with rapidly advancing technology compelling people to upgrade their gadgets multiple times a year instead of once a decade.
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20 Top Tech Stories From July
The best technology stories from the last month, from our DIY features to building your own water desalination plant, to problems with Apple.
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"My Plug" Cuts Electricity Waste via Text Message
A "smart plug" from French company Orange lets users control and monitor their energy use via cell phone.
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Build an Arduino-Powered Self-Watering Planter
Looking for a sure way to keep you plants alive? Here's a DIY project for the brown-thumbed gadgeteer.
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LED Lighting System Imitates The Sun’s Healing Effect
By imitating the natural look and feel of sunlight, even in the color shifts throughout the day, this LED light design makes the electronic light source seem much more natural.
