SolarFold and SolarFan Use Thousands of Tiny Spheres to Charge Your Gadgets

Image via Engadget Two new foldable solar chargers from AmbienTech have hit the market. But…They look a little odd, right

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Call for Entries: The 2010 James Dyson Award

Designers, engineers, inventors, and crafty gadgeteers, it’s time to get the brain juices percolating and submit for the 2010 James Dyson Award .

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Call for Entries: The 2010 James Dyson Award

Gary Lauder on the Social and Environmental Impact of Stop Signs and Roundabouts (Video)

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MIT Scientists Discover a Way to Generate Electricity with Thermopower Waves in Carbon Nanotubes

Image: MIT Could Store Power at 100x More Energy/Weight Than Lithium-Ion A team of scientists at MIT has discovered a new way to generate power with carbon nanotubes. In a paper titled ” Chemically driven carbon-nanotube-guided thermopower waves ” published in Nature Materials , they describe how they made “thermopower waves” flow through the nanotubes, generating a significant amount of power relative to the size of the nanotubes

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80 Rare Butterflies Released to Spend their Short Lives in the Wild

Image credit: Wikimedia Commons Until the 20th century, the Palos Verdes peninsula—a small spit of land south of Los Angeles—was the only home of the blue butterfly Glaucopsyche lygdamus palosverdesensis .

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BBC’s Inside Out Airs Expose on The Impacts of UK’s e-Waste on Developing Countries

Photo via dieselboii e-Waste is finally starting to go mainstream and the issue is making its way to television viewers. While some examples of e-waste on TV are horrifying, like the A mazing Race episode that made light of dumps and the extremely hazardous environments in which e-waste “recyclers” work, other programs are diligently chipping away at the veil between gadget ..

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Cathy Erway on The Art of Eating In: The TreeHugger Interview

Photo via Goodlifer Cathy Erway is an acclaimed food writer and sustainability activist based in New York City. Two or so years ago, she renounced the consumptive culinary culture of the big apple, and set out to eat in–for every meal

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New Charging Method Could Mean Exponentially Faster Battery Recharge Times

Photo of batteries via Moria , molecules via Technology Review Chemists have figured out a new way to charge up electronics that drastically speeds up how long it takes to fill up to full. Ibrahim Abou Hamad at Mississippi State University show off a new way to recharge lithium ion batteries that could be a huge boon for electronics across the board, but while we immediately think of how much faster we might be able to text away on our cell phones, or go snap photos with our digital cameras, the real impact could happ…

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Nokia Moving Into Kinetically Charged Cell Phones, Files New Patent

Photo via jurvetson So far, kinetic charging for cell phones has been confined to the realm of external chargers (which are only now starting to be actually useful ) and concept designs for futuristic phones . But Nokia looks to be taking piezoelectric charging for cell phones seriously

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Totally Cool and Easy to Make Recycled Plastic Bags Rain Boots

Photos: Courtesy of Louis Rigano. We’ve seen plenty of things with fused plastic bags , one of the best being the Chilean plastic bags boots we featured last year. However, few look like something that you would wear or that can be easily done.

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