Power Walking with Energy Floors

The average footstep produces about 8 Joules of energy. Dutch company Energy Floors is converting those footsteps into electricity.

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Touchscreens in Electronic Devices
The main components of the ubiquitous touchscreen interface.

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Google's Loon Uses Solar Power to Connect the World

Google wants to bring the internet to the world using a network of balloons carrying solar-powered electronics.

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Solar-Powered Wheelchair Wins Design Challenge

In a great blend of project-based learning and service learning, students at the University of Virginia won the “Change My World in One Minute” competition by designing and building a solar-powered wheelchair. They're donating the finished wheelchair to a cerebral palsy sufferer and donating the remaining prize money to United Cerebral Palsy. 

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Intel Launches Next Generation of Microprocessors
eDRAM, Iris Pro and the new Haswell devices.

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World's Quietest Wind Turbine

Small wind turbines tend to be noisy and ineffective at low wind speeds. Will the Eco Whisper silence the wind power critics?

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Wind Power Goes Retro

Artist and designer Merel Karhof created factories that harness the wind to run machines directly from the wind’s mechanical energy - no electricity required.


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A New Spin on Energy Storage

An innovative flywheel design may put a new spin on energy storage.

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Applications Processors – The Heart of the Smartphone
Smartphone APUs combine the best of both SoC and SiP technology.

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Cryogenic Energy Storage

Highview Power Storage has a cool way to store energy: cryogenics. 

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Power Choices for Smartphone Designers
Flexible form factors and new battery chemistry.

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New development board runs Arduino, Linux and Android
UDOO is a new development platform designed to be compatible with Arduino, Linux, Android and the Google 2012 SDK. Its designers state that their goal was to bring together the best of Arduino and the Raspberry Pi in one platform. You can in fact plug Arduino shields into the UDOO and they will function just as if they were connected to an Arduino.

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Hydropower Energy Harvesting

A new hydropower turbine promises to produce more electricity from "low-head" water conditions.

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Vaavud Wind Speed Indicator for Smartphones
With no electronic components whatsoever, the Vuuvud uses the magnetometer found inside many smartphones to determine the wind speed and direction.  

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Printable Solar Cells

An inexpensive printing process makes flexible solar cells that can be laminated onto almost any surface.

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A Down-To-Earth Wind Turbine

SheerWind's INVELOX design captures, accelerates, and concentrates the wind, sending it to a gound-level turbine, allowing it to generate more electricity at lower cost. 

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The Guts of Thinner Smartphones
What physics limits how thin smartphones can be?

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PowerWINDows

PowerWINDows is not a Microsoft product, but a potential wind energy system designed for urban environments.

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Off-Grid Street Lighting

This off-grid street light gets all of its power from two solar panels, a helical wind turbine, and a battery back-up.

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Will the Q10 save BlackBerry?
BlackBerry launched their newest smart phone this week. Will the Q10 bring BlackBerry back?

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