Category Archives: Gadgets and Tech
The Efergy eLite is an energy power monitor to help you measure your electricity usage. It easily connects to the power meter and gives wireless readings with its handheld unit kept up to 200 feet away. It shows how much energy you have been using and how much money you have already spent on it. Great thing, this. Way too much energy is being wasted and these are great for people who actually care to make a difference. It cannot however, export its data to the PC for graphing and visualization.
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Lenovo has announced the launch of its two new workstations with the added feature of being green. At the Game Developer’s Conference Lenovo announced the new the ThinkStation S20 and D20. They both use 50 percent recycled content. In the ThinkStation D20 workstation, nearly 30 percent of the recycled content comes from post consumer recycled content, which is equivalent to the weight of approximately 19 plastic drinking water bottles. The workstations also have the GREENGUARD certification meaning they meet standards for more than 2,000 chemical tests. The workstations also meet the Energy Star 5.0 criteria taking effect in July.
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Sharp has now unveiled its new eco-friendly LCD television range in Japan. There will be three in the series of the new AQUOS including the 40”, 42” and 52” Full high-definition panel. The sets will be fully loaded with HDMI, 120Hz. The new range is made to reduce power consumption drastically with an improved backlight and overall power consumption system capable providing 175kWh per year for the 52 inch set, 145kWh per year for the 46 inch set and 120kWh per year for the 40 inch model.
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Every time you smile for some shutterbug, you need to worry about the side-effects of the procedure that follows, which is photo-printing. Almost everything that we do these days needs to be monitored with a green meter. A simple task of photo printing is also not so green. But Rick Colson of EcoVisual Communications has found a cleaner alternative to this too. The company has just launched America’s first 100% green, 100% sustainable photo “lab” at www.greenphotoprint.com. This new firm is the first to offer an exclusive combination of totally green, museum-quality, archival photographic print services. Greenphotoprint replaces the traditional non-eco-friendly toxic, petroleum-based, silver-based and tree-derived materials with papers made from 100% recycled cotton, VOC-free water-based inks, and mounting substrates made from soy and 100% post-consumer recycled paper. Such a non-toxic printing is not only safe for our health but also saves our environment by reducing carbon emissions as well as the burden on landfills.
Thanks Rick Colson
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Since IT is a field most delved into by the present day generations, to keep a balance between the technology and conventional styles of living, more options are being unveiled by huge technology firms. ZOTAC has just launched the low-power, eco-friendly ZOTAC GeForce 9800GT Eco. It features 112 stream processors and 512MB GDDR3 memory technology and is also 40 percent more power efficient. The 9800GT Eco has a 256-bit memory interface, a shader clock and memory clock which run at speeds of 1375 MHz and 1800 MHz respectively. It supports Nvidia’s CUDA, PhysX and PureVideo HD technologies, is SLI ready and uses a PCI Express 2.0 interface and supports resolutions up to 2560×1600 and is compatible with DirectX 10 Shader Model 4.0 and OpenGL 2.1.
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Time and again we have followed Google on its mission of promoting green living. There are times when Google has been misinterpreted but we have also reported about their noteworthy green steps like the free web service, dubbed PowerMeter. Back then, in Feb, the idea of PowerMeter was only conceived but now things are shaping up for commercial use too. Dan Reicher, Director for Climate Change and Energy Initiatives Google has confirmed that the company is in talks with utilities companies in the United Sates, Europe and Asia to make the product available shortly to general consumers. Since this program promises to help homeowners to save up to 15% of energy, I am sure many of us will not miss this energy-saving, bill-reducing free web service.
[Yahoo]
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The rise in temperature has a direct impact on our electricity bills…..both soar faster and make us break out in cold sweat.The culprit is power guzzling air-conditioner. But here is a green way to beat the heat and the escalating bills! A multifunction solar system Chromasun from Australia is the latest entry into solar powered air conditioning. It contains photovoltaic and solar thermal technology that harvest light and heat from the sun. The makers say that this device can has 75 per cent efficient in converting electric power into solar thermal system. It contains mirrors, receivers and a concentrator and silicon solar cells. This system generates electricity from the cells and the waste heat is used to increase the temperature of water or oil in a sealed tube to 220 degrees celsius.
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To compete with the LG HFB-500 and Iqua Vizor SUN, Scosche has launched a solar-powered Bluetooth speakerphone for cars. The SolChat adheres to the car’s windshield and collects sunlight to charge the internal lithium ion rechargeable battery. It comes along with an USB charging cable, car adapter so that you can charge at night and on days with insufficient sunlight, windshield suction-cup mount and a sun visor clip. Once you set up a pairing between the cell phone and SolChat it connects automatically once you enter your car and turns on the speakerphone and turns off automatically once the pairing is broken. The speakerphone also has voice-announce technology which will alert the driver of incoming calls. The price of the SolChat is $100.
[Cnet]
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Starchaser Industries developed an environmentally friendly rocket engine. They are conducting a full test firing using grant funding of £130,730 from the North West regional Development Agency (NWDA). This is for the sakes of developing a unique eco-friendly rocket engine that will find eventual use as a safety system aboard commercial space rockets. This hybrid rocket engine will utilize green propellants and the technology can be used aboard space launch vehicles as recovery systems to ensure the safe retrieval of astronauts in the event of an emergency situation. The project uses hydrogen peroxide as an oxidiser combined with solid fuel made from waste materials such as used car tyres.
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Playing with the small slates using chalks or those slate pens are always the better memories of childhood. Now however with the world zooming into the futuristic mode, an Indian researcher and his colleagues at the Rice University has discovered the I-Slate. This is a solar-powered, WiFi, stylus-controlled tablet PC that uses probabilistic CMOS technology designed by Dr Krishna Palem and his team. This was introduced at the IEEE’s 125th Anniversary event and can download lesson plans and help children with their math. The prototypes will start making the rounds in India coming spring.
[Engadget]
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