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

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The main components of the ubiquitous touchscreen interface.

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

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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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eDRAM, Iris Pro and the new Haswell devices.

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

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Smartphone APUs combine the best of both SoC and SiP technology.

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

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Flexible form factors and new battery chemistry.

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

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

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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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What physics limits how thin smartphones can be?

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

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

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