K3: The Power of the Sun and Wind now within your reach!

The K3 is ” a “tribrid” device since it can be charged by wind, sun or electricity from an AC wall outlet.
A fully charged K3 can charge a mobile phone over five times and an iPod/MP3 player over 10 times. Just one hour of sun and wind provides 30 minutes of talk [...]

Toyota’s 3g Prius Has Solar Panels, Remote Control Air Conditioning

“The most energy-efficient Prius yet–50 mpg compared to 46 mpg for the 2009 model–comes with an optional solar panel on the roof to power cabin vent fans. Since the remote control-powered air conditioner is electric, it can run even when the car is off–so a quick trip to the store doesn’t have to mean an [...]

Prefab: Clayton i-house

“Low-E windows, solar augmentation, high-efficiency appliances and superior insulation. The solar panels on the roof don’t supply all the home’s needs, but they do cut electricity consumption in half. There’s also a tankless water heater and a cistern that collects rainwater from the roof for use in gardening, car washing or other outdoor uses. Floors [...]

Atom CPU on Credit Card sized Mainboard

“Toradex have begun sampling their latest COM Express module, just 84 x 55mm in size,
which uses Intel’s Z5xx Atom processor range. The Toradex Robin (shown here on the right, to scale – but not actual size – with its Toradex Woodpecker sibling, announced last year) has seven USB 2.0, gigabit ethernet, a microSD [...]

Blue Earth” Solar Powered Cell Phone By Samsung

Could this be the first solar powered phone ever? “In addition there’s an “eco walk” function that lets the user count their steps with an in-built pedometer, calculating how much CO2 emissions have been reduced (and therefore how many trees have been saved) by walking as opposed to taking the car”… Via <pocket-lint>

Prefab Kodiak Steel Homes

“A Kodiak Steel Homes kit offers several advantages over more typical approaches to homebuilding. Its superior materials and fully-engineered design make it more durable, economical, and environmentally responsible”…

Palm Pre review – better than the iPhone?

The previous post about the new Pre_Palm OS gets an update as the reviews are finally in and mostly positive.
Below is a video good video overview….>

Solar Powered Robotic Lawn Mower

“utomower Solar Hybrid is the world’s first fully automatic lawn mower that is partly powered by the sun. Brilliant for your lawn, great for your conscience, better for the planet. The product uses considerably less energy than any conventional mower. That’s because in addition to a charging station, it comes with a large integrated solar [...]

Prefab: The Floating House

“Locating the house on a remote island posed another set of constraints. Using traditional construction processes would have been prohibitively expensive; the majority of costs would have been applied toward transporting building materials to the remote island. Instead, we worked with the contractor to devise a prefabrication and construction process that maximized the use of [...]

Prefab and Portable Living-Best of 2008

To those who harbor dreams of hitting the open road or shacking up in a tiny modernist prefab cabin in the wilderness: this roundup is for you. Tiny homes, trailers, and prefabs are hot right now

Palm’s New Mobile OS Nova= Something Huge?

‘m fundamentally convinced we’re onto something huge,” says Mike Bell, a 16-year Apple engineering star who joined Palm last year. “Some of the stuff we’re working on here is mind-blowing—better than anything I’ve seen before

Pandora UMPC & The evolution of the Smartphone Platform

“It is designed as an ultra portable open source computer with gaming
controls, it is very small, around about the same size as a DS. It can
easily fit in your pocket. It is by far the most powerful handheld in
the world both in terms of raw CPU power and 3D graphics capability, it
will be able to [...]

Good for You, Good for the Planet

“Good for You, Good for the Planet’s Jorge Alonso Garcia says that nearly “100%” of electronic devices remain on standby mode after they’ve been turned off. “This is so that they can be quickly turned on again,” he explains.So What Does the Device Do?
100%Off, the device designed by Good for You, is a microprocessor which [...]

New High-Speed Internet Society with Satellites

JAXA | Overview of the “KIZUNA” (WINDS)

“The “KIZUNA” is a communications satellite that enables super high-speed data communications of up to 1.2 Gbps to develop a society without any information availability disparity, in which everybody can equally enjoy high-speed communications wherever they live.
Using an antenna for South East Asian countries, we are aiming to achieve [...]

Thinner Than Paper OLED

“If you thought OLEDs were thin already, researchers at the Universal Display Corporation (whose factory we visited last year) have made a flexible display that’s positively anorexic. The ultra-thin metal foil screen is less than 50 micrometers thin, which means it’s even thinner than a sheet of A4 paper. The UDC folks also claimed that [...]

Solar Cynergy: LED/Solar Landscape Pavers

SOlar LED lights form Solar Cynergy..you can drive over these! See the product specs below:
” All RSC Solar LED Series are made of Polycarbonite Resin and PC/ABS
Working Temp: -4 degrees to 158 F
- Made in Japan
- NO Battery! (capacitor technology)
- 10 Year Warranty, 25+ year life
- Uses quality Nichia LEDs
- Weather resilient!
- Drive over [...]

CherryPal: A Green PC with No Moving Parts

“utilisation of the online cloud environment provides improved user protection as computer hardware is no longer exposed to attacks from malicious viruses and hackers, which is a feature further bolstered by the company’s industry-exclusive and patent-pending hardware and software encryption.. from $249″…. <More>

A Modern, Green House for $100,000!

GreenByDesign had an interesting post on a company called PostGreen who is attempting to build a house for $100,000 called the 100K house it is a little on the small side and not strictly a prefab. Also, the 100k budget covers “the hard construction budget only. The price of the land and all soft costs [...]

Baumraum Prefab Tree Houses

Via FreshHome
“Here’s a good question. What you get when an architect, a landscape architect, an arbologist, and a craftsman get together and work on something new? An amazing prefab treehouses dubbed Baumhauser”….<More>

SpaceBox Prefab: Cheap Beach Side Home?

“Spacebox is uniquely suited to seaside or beach environments. The waterproof GRP exterior and lightweight composite construction open up a range of exciting possibilities.
Colours can be selected to suit local requirements.
Spaceboxes can be located individually in the following ways:
* traditional leisure-home format similar to a static caravan;
* several interconnected Spaceboxes forming a multi-room home; or
* [...]