Tag: Technology
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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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Solar Powered Micro Data Center Being Tested At Rutgers
Rutgers has installed 160 servers in an SUV-sized building, which will all be run with solar power. It is an experiment to see if this could be done on a broader scale.
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How Technology Brings Us Closer Than Ever to Wildlife
While technology has caused its share of environmental problems, there are ways we can, and are, using it to explore and appreciate wildlife and natural spaces.
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Data Center Energy Management System Can Cut Power Use by 50%
New technology developed by Swiss researchers can monitor and track the energy use of server racks as well as consolidate workloads among servers to slash energy demand.
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Leafully Wins DOE's Apps for Energy Contest
This app shows users their energy consumption as trees instead of just kilowatt-hours, helping people to visualize their environmental impact.
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The Week in Clean Tech: Smart watches, smart water meters, and smart moves for cleantech funding
Catch up on cleantech news from the week in 5 minutes.
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Top 10 Tech Stories This Week: Robotic fish hit the ocean, fun times at Maker Faire, speakers that talk to dolphins, and more!
The hottest stories in Technology from the last week. Catch up quick!
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1/3 of U.S. Homes Now Have Smart Meters
A new report highlights the quick roll-out of smart meters by utilities, stating that half of homes will have them by 2015.
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"Inexact" Computer Chip is 15X More Efficient By Making a Few Mistakes
Researchers have designed a microchip that is faster, smaller and far more energy efficient by allowing it to make occasional errors.
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Pinball Wizardry Earns Kiddies Kinetic Knowledge
A design for a kid's game has won a James Dyson Award, and for good reason. It teaches kids about kinetic energy all through a pinball-style game.
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Pollution-Hunting Robot Fish Head to Sea for Test Swim
They've gone from the lab to the ocean, and these robotic fish are stretching their fins to see how they do in gathering information on pollution.
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Wave-Powered "Dolphin Speaker" Could Let Us Talk to Dolphins
Scientists have developed a piezoelectric speaker that can playback the full frequency range of dolphin sounds, getting us closer to human-dolphin communication.
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Robot To Wash Solar Panels Among Winning Student Inventions
Students in a competition for the Department of Energy came up with some winning ideas, including an automated way to wash down solar panels for improved efficiency.
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5 Ways Cell Phones are Helping Environmentalism
Cell phones are now in the hands of more than half the world's population, which has made them one of the most accessible and effective tools for environmentalism.
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Maker Faire 2012: Make Simple Robots With Junk Drawer Stuff
Simple Bots is a fun, easy way to make basic robots out of random household items.
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Maker Faire 2012: 3D Printers All the Rage for Democratizing Creativity
Never have I seen more 3D printers in one space than at this year's Maker Faire. There's a revolution underfoot!
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Map of Life Website Will Catalog and Track Every Plant and Animal Species
This new project will show the current known location of every plant and animal species but will also track changes to populations due to things like climate change.
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Top 10 Tech Stories This Week: Tweeting water robots, viruses powering gadgets, eye implants for the blind and more!
Get caught up on the best tech stories from the past week!
