Tag: Solar Gadgets - Page 7
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Polluting Two-Stroke "Mototaxi" Goes Solar
What's worse about the two-stroke engines still common workhorses in motors of all kinds - the pollution or the noise? In Lima, Peru, plagued by air pollution, it's probably the former.
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Sun Boxes: Solar Powered Music
Musician and composer Craig Colorusso presents the Sun Boxes, " an environment to enter and exit. It's comprised of twenty speakers operating independently each powered by solar panels. There is a different guitar sample in each box all playing
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Plastiki Ship Makes its Way Across the Pacific
Last month, on March 20, 2010, the Plastiki set sail with its skipper Adventure Ecology founder and environmentalist David de Rothschild and his intrepid crew of five. They are sailing across the Pacific Ocean to Australia on
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First Manned Solar Plane Takes First Test...Hop
We first mentioned the Solar Impulse solar powered plane back in 2005 as the solar plane with plans to circle the globe in 2011. Now they're back in 2009 with a manned solar aircraft that on Thursday at 12:11 EST took
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ShadePlex Fabric Solar Panels Provide Flexibility and Fun
Sounds like something little suzie homemaker would come up with - put fabric on solar panels and offer different colors so customers will like them for their aesthetic appeal. Actually, maybe this idea isn't too far off the
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Buy a Solar Cooker and Offset 1 Ton of CO2
Image via: Solar Cookers International Solar Cookers International has come up with a new program just in time for the holidays that allows you to give a gift, help out someone less fortunate, clear the air of harmful emissions AND offset one ton of
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Readers, Send Us Photos of The One Green Object You Just Can't Live Without!
Are you a sushi fan slave to a sustainable seafood pocket guide--we hear Fabien Cousteau's a fan--or do you use a Kill-A-Watt to combat your fear of wasted energy? Prove it! We want to
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Solar Birdhouse: Giving Birds the Edge Over Mother Nature
Sooo, birdhouses these days are made from a variety of materials: plastic, recycled plastic, composite, wood, reclaimed wood, recycled milk jugs, you get the picture. And, oftentimes birdhouses today come with upgrades and new gadgets,
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Green Holiday Gift Guide: The Green Geek (Slideshow)
The right gadgets can save your techie money, time, and energy. The wrong gadgets, on the other hand, slowly decay into a tangled mess of wires, plastic, and electronic materials in the junk drawer. Trust us: These items curated for the green
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Green Gift Guide: The Green Geek
Giving gadgets may be a quick and easy way to satisfy all the techies--and closet green geeks--on your list, but shelling out for anything that plugs in just for the sake of that holiday-morning electronic glow can have a heavy cost on your wallet and on
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The Sexiest Solar iPhone Charger by Regen
The sleek design of the Regen ReNu offers customers a solar panel charger, that looks like well a solar panel, but also looks like it would blend into the background of a modern, chic, loft apartment. Styled similar to many
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Las Gaviotas: A Sustainable Community Cut Off From the World Almost 40 Years Ago
It sounds like something out of a fairy tale or a children's book, a community deep in the wild jungle of Colombia, cut off from society almost 40 years ago. Then, after the rest of the world turned their back
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Solar-Powered Mailbox: Visible From Half a Football-Field Away
Upon first thought, this seems like a silly invention. Who needs a solar-powered mailbox anyways? Then again, if you've ever been lost in the dark looking for a house in the middle of nowhere, you might appreciate an
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Green Robots Destined to Be Our Overlords (Slideshow)
A future populated by robot armies working tirelessly to complete our most mundane jobs is a staple of science fiction. Increasingly, however, engineers, inventors, and scientists are developing robots that could make such a vision a reality. Many have
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Green Robots Destined to Be Our Overlords
A future populated by robot armies working tirelessly to complete our most mundane jobs is a staple of science fiction. Increasingly, however, engineers, inventors, and scientists are developing robots that could make such a vision a reality. Many, and no
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Mobile Device Roundup: Charging Up Without the Grid
The Stanford researcher Dean Eckles thinks that mobile devices and the apps embedded within are becoming extensions of our minds, and could grow to be the primary lens through which we look at the world. But unlike our brains--which can be fed on
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Solar-Powered Bags: A Bright Idea for Africa?
Can an urban hipster's trendy tote also serve the needs of poor Africans? AfriGadget's Erik Hersman is traveling through Ghana, Kenya, and Uganda, meeting with motorcycle
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Survey: Is a Solar Charger Built Into a Phone Just Eco-Bling?
In the past few days we've seen a couple of cell phone offerings with integrated solar panels, with the Google Android getting the solar power makeover most recently. Now I'm entirely for more applications for solar power charging, but as someone whose
