Soon on your windows : invisible solar panels
What if solar panels were completely transparent ? They could be placed over windows and could enable us to have self charging smartphones. Now that’s something great.
Tagged: Smartphones
Repairing : make it do, make it last
With the economic downturn, it seems more and more people around the world are willing to throw away the throwaway economy we are living in. Repairing our gadgets and possessions is getting more important....
Engineers discover self healing circuits
To Ecogeek : “ A team of engineers at the University of Illinois have figured out how to create self-healing circuits in electronics and batteries, a discovery that could lead to longer equipment life ” ” As electronics have...
D-Light, data through illumination
To GOOD : ” One German physicist, Harald Haas, has come up with a solution he calls “data through illumination” (…) by sending data through an LED lightbulb that varies in intensity faster than...
Thank you all !
For my 700th post I would like to thank you all of you who subscribed by RSS or by Email as last week I have reached over a hundred subscribers on average. For those...
The energy cost of our electronic devices
The International Energy Agency issued a study – Gadgets and Gigawatts – on the energy consumption of the numerous mobile phones, mp3 players and other electronic devices. By 2030, they are due to consume...