Black and Decker LightsOut IR Gadget Turns Lights Off to Conserve Energy

Black and Decker will be releasing the LightsOut, an IR gadget that turns out lights when it stops detecting movement in front of it’s sensor.

Philips Simplicity designs green street lamp

Philips Simplicity has unveiled their Light Blossom, a self-sustainable street lamp that is filled with energy-efficient LEDs. It powers itself via solar panels located on top of the lamp.

Marvell Chip

Marvell has released chips for PC and notebook that determine the amount of power an application will need and will optimize accordingly.
Optimizing power cuts down on power consumption and, of course, global warming-causing greenhouse gasses. It seems such a small thing - our PCs adding to global warming, but the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) [...]

Night Vision Keyboard

iKey has come up with LED backlit keyboards that are compatible with night vision goggles. They do stuff like this for the military, but it is also applicable in law enforcement and emergency medical operations that need and use night-vision.

Chemical Power

Though a long way from being commercialized, the new battery developed by Sony generates electricity using glucose, which is chemically broken down with enzymes. Apparently, you can power small electronics endlessly through a supply of glucose solution which you pour into the battery (I’m sure airline security will love that). While glucose-powered batteries are more [...]

Reee Chair

See this chair. Looks like a regular chair, feels like a regular chair and its even designed like a regular chair. What’s the big deal? This particular chair is made out of 100% recycled computer game console casings. A pli design it’s called the Reee Chair.

Awesome

1.3 Megawatt Solar Stadium

Switzerland is going green
The world’s largest solar stadium located in Bern, Switzerland began operation this week. The Stade De Suisse has 10,738 solar cells from Kyocera with an overall output of 1.3 megawatts of power. That equals 350 four-person households.
The additional bonus is reducing CO2 emissions by 630 tons annually.

Verdant Computing

Green Technology is a hot topic these days and the tech companies are scurrying to cash in on it. I am not deluding myself that they care about the environment, but rather, that they are going with the tide.
Regardless, Verdant Computing is making it easier for the average person to find environmentally-friendly tech purchases without [...]

Electric Car War

Toyota has stumbled in the all-electric car race and now GM thinks it sees the finish line.
Because battery-safety problems, Toyota is delaying the plug-in, lithium-ion-based model until 2011.
Meanwhile, GM has just solidified a deal with Massachusetts-based A123 Systems to produce flat lithium-ion batteries for use in their future plug-in electric vehicles, like the Chevy Volt. [...]

Apple’s Failure to Meet New Guidelines

On July 20th, Energy Star’s new specs for computers went into effect. While some product lines of all manufacturers fall short of these new standards, a few do comply - except for Apple which does not have a single item in compliance.
Only about 125 computers meet the new requirements and can be seen here in [...]