... moons, amazing solar eclipses, UFOs (?) plenty of unidentified stuff anyway, and recently we were part of the biggest stargazing event in the world here in Australia.
Note that apparently some 3000 new ...
German car manufacturer Mercedes-Benz has debuted a new concept for a hydrogen-powered SUV, and it's pretty crazy. The Vision G-Code is as striking as any concept, with a squat profile and space-age interior, ...
Eton has a bit of a thing for music plus solar power. We're not complaining though. Its latest eco-powered music machine is the rukus Xtreme, and brings potentially non-stop daytime jams to the great outdoors ...
... c vehicle made mostly from carbon fiber. Green vehicles proved they could go the distance as a 65-year-old man embarked on a 1,200-mile journey in a solar-powered tricycle, and a crop of green-roofed bus ...
Keeping your USB-powered gear powered up while camping in the woods or hiking the Appalachian Trail can prove quite a challenge. Solar chargers and backup batteries can help, sure, but when you're alread ...
... erside Park, Rockaways, Summerstage in Central Park, Randall's Island, Governor's Island, Union Square, and Hudson River Park over the next few weeks. Each solar-powered pole, designed locally by Pens ...
... solar powered balloon. One of the Google[x] moonshot projects, there are a couple of videos embedded after the break explaining the issue, and the
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No, we're not joking. Google is seriously proposi ...
... oid 4.1 slate centers on a light-up, 6-inch e-paper screen that both extends the battery life to 20 hours and makes the 5 hours of solar-powered recharging sound reasonable -- theoretically, Earl never n ...
It may be fun, but sending NASA scientists on snowmobiles to survey ice floes isn't the most productive use of their time. That's why the agency has sent GROVER to do the job instead. The solar-power ...
... similar problems. Let's review their Solar Powered Dog Electric Fence Model 605.
There are several types of perimeter fences that will contain your dog. Probably what attracted me most in t ...
... ng tiles that generate power from runners in the Paris Marathon. Meanwhile at the International Space Station, astronauts are installing a new type of 3D-textured solar cell that will soak up 16 sunri ...
A 39-year-old retired Chinese soldier by the name of Sun Jie is showing everyone what self-reliance is all about. Despite all sorts of adversities, the diligent husband and proud Shanghai security ...
... o, Nigeria, and South Africa.
Another part of the push is a pilot project Microsoft is working on with the Kenyan government and Indigo Telecom which combines solar powered base stations using TV white sp ...
... designed for use in battery or solar-powered devices like remote sensors, WiFi repeaters, robots and so on. Europeans currently have
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Looking for a slimmed-down Raspberry Pi with a single USB port ...
... or defective silicon wafers, which could save the solar industry billions of dollars. And the California Public Utilities Commission announced that California installed an impressive 1 GW of solar pow ...
Luci is Mpowerd's "little solar lantern with a big impact" and for the price and light produced -- 1200 lumens -- it does seem to fit the bill. But what really makes this lantern so fantastic, is th ...
... with ClientMate (Freeware for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, MAC, VMware or Solaris OS) to perform multi-servers shutdown.
Testing We tested both units but as they are very similar in capacity we mainly fo ...
Last October we reviewed the environmentally friendly Solar Sound bluetooth speaker from Devotec. The Solar Sound 2 is the latest revision of this green music machine.
Read on for our full ...
... heck – 15 bucks, we said... You can even power this device with a solar charger they sent along with this unit. More about that one later. I hooked it up to my HD2 and a solar charged battery and there ...
Here’s one of these oxymorons: a solar powered torch – but thanks to a rechargeable battery it doesn’t only work during the day... !
Well, the idea is great, the execution less so. ...
... of the charger is the 4 white LEDs. Under the yellow acrylic cover on top of the unit is a spring loaded clip with two adjustable charging pins. On the opposite end to the LED is a "solar ...
... with some basic survival tools - you know, just in case - might just be a reasonable proposition.
Read on for our take on Eton’s Solarlink FR150 and Microlink FR500 survival crank radios.
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... e eXplorer can all be used to directly recharge the gadgets. All the connector tips will fit onto the solar-slave, the retractable USB cable and the universal mains charger.
The various metho ...
The Qstarz Super 99 Bluetooth Solar GPS Travel Recorder, or BT-Q1200 for short, is a Bluetooth GPS but with couple of important differences:
* it has built in solar power cells
* it is a stand ...
... me of their gear, notably a couple of solar GPS receivers. The Speed Meter is a well built unit, aesthetically rather pleasing (after all it is just a stick-like device!) and comes complete with ...
