Ah, the old piggy bank. It was a great way to learn how to save your pennies when you were a kid, and there was always that satisfying smash to look forward to when you had finally saved up enough to buy that skateboard or whatever other high-priced item you wanted more than anything else [...]

And you thought the Nellis solar energy system in Nevada was intimidating. Truth be told, that 14-megawatt project pales mightily in comparison to the one being dreamed up for Arizona, and even Cleantech’s 80-megawatt endeavor in California can only bow to the 280-megawatt Solana Generating Station. According to the Arizona Public Service Company, the facility [...]

The Edge phone is designed for the style conscious fashionistas. The name has nothing to do with data speed. In fact we don’t even know what this phone is capable of because as with all fashion phones, looks rein supreme and the Edge phone makes sure you notice with its glowing glass keyboard.
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Would attractive design make you go green? Constructed to look like a flower, the Ravi solar generator has photovoltaic arrays attached to petal-like extensions. And, like a flower, it absorbs energy from the sun during the day, storing it in an internal battery — its petals glow once a battery is charged. At night, you [...]

The transparent slide shown to you here is a mobile encyclopedia. To use it just frame it over an object, such as a building, and subsequently touch on a floor of the building on the slide and it’ll zoom into it and give you the full detail of that building.

There’s certainly no shortage of rugged tablet PCs out there, but those still undecided computing options for their next trek through the wilderness now have yet another possibility to consider, with Roper Mobile Technology introducing its new Duros tablet. On the ruggedness front, this one is sealed to IP-65 levels for dust and water protection [...]

A Virginia Tech student has won the Greener Gadget Award for a clever LED lamp that gets all of its power from gravity, which is a seriously renewable resource. Working kind of like a grandfather clock that needs to be wound in order to work, the lamp has a weight that’s raised up every day. [...]

We don’t know about you, but to us, there’s nothing cuter than a warm, cuddly bunny — save for Hello Kitty, of course. Thankfully, the National Institute of Health and the EPA have teamed up to jumpstart a five-year research program that “will use high-speed automated screening robots” instead of live animals to run chemical [...]

The future will soon arrive. The House of the Future is coming back to Disneyland, and this time around, Microsoft, HP and LifeWare will be paying the bills instead of Monsanto, which originally sponsored the first House of the Future (pictured above) at Disneyland from 1957 until 1967. Instead of re-hashing today’s passé accoutrements such [...]

The tin-can style submarines made famous in The Hunt for Red October just aren’t aesthetically pleasing and designer Taizo Doi agrees. This futuristic submarine design is Doi’s work and is inspired by the jellyfish. Doi said he wanted the submarine to look like a sea creature. The design includes a 360-degree platform that allows the [...]

Some Russian scientists seem to be telling us that in three months’ time, we could travel back to the past or future. This secenario can only be seen in the movie “Back ToThe Future”, time traveling and now it says that it’d come true in the next three months.

The revolving door, now that is one heck of an invention! This door has been an active part of hotel and office life for decades and just now someone has though to turn it into a human hamster wheel. Fluxxlab’s Revolution Door takes the energy exerted by humans pushing a revolving door and turns it [...]

We’ve seen some pretty out there solar installations, but JAXA, the Japanese space agency, is about to get really far out with its latest project: a space-based solar array that beams power back to Earth. The agency is set to begin testing on the microwave power transmission system on February 20th, with an attempt to [...]

Designer Fred De Garilhe was apparently thinking more about makeup packaging and jewelry than cell phones when he designed this Chanel Choco phone concept. The slim slider collapses into a square piece of shiny glass, festooned with a latticework that suggest segments of a chocolate bar, but this one’s all lit up with fancy fiber [...]

The TicketTime concept’s purpose is to address the issue of time zones when flying, but more so I see this idea as just a downright convenience. Attached to the boarding pass is a digital watch that syncs with and knows your final destination.

While those in London can use SMS to actually find a lavatory, folks passing through Western Finland will be required to bust out their handset in order to relieve themselves in select public restrooms. In an attempt to curb vandalism, the Finnish Road Administration has implemented a system along Highway 1 which requires restroom [...]

Word on the street, or should I say, word on the web is that Israeli telecommunications company Bezeq is offering a “Clean Line” service to ultra-orthodox types. If you count yourself amongst the haredi Jews and want to block all communications that are deemed inappropriate by a council of rabbis, then this is the service [...]

Upstart MINIWIZ managed to attract our attention with its HYmini alternative power source last fall, but it unfortunately didn’t have all the specs we could have asked for or, more importantly, a price. In case you missed it, the HYmini device itself makes use of wind power to recharge the integrated battery, which in turn [...]

Touchless interface that lets your fingers stay a few inches or more away from your computer screen, without touching it, and you’ll be able to control the movement of the 3D objects in the computer.

Nano-technology - the technology that can go super tiny scale that is able to squeeze many millions or more of memory cells into one single chip set. The latest development in the computer memory chip contributed by nano-technology is a single memory chip set that can store up to 100GB. Nanochip, a company that has [...]