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'Inlet Outlet' Lets Users Give Power Back To Wall Sockets

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ever wish you could you power your home's electrical appliances with the energy you generate on your exercise bike? A new concept called an "inlet outlet" could allow homeowners to put power ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Mar 02, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (34) | comments 26 weblog

Remote control pushed aside by gesture-sensitive devices

The remote control has never been much beloved. If it's not getting lost or running out of batteries, the device - and its inscrutable buttons - is confusing some family member or acting as a totem in an argument about what ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Panasonic turns on OLED lighting roadmap, announces record efficiency

(PhysOrg.com) -- Japan-based Panasonic Electric Works (PEW) has announced an aggressive roadmap to make organic light-emitting diodes (OLED) lighting a part of the not so distant future. The company has said ...

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 02, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 4 | with audio podcast report

HP's webOS moves out of tablet foxhole into appliance mode

(PhysOrg.com) -- HP is set to spread the wings of its operating system for its smartphones and TouchPad tablet, webOS, and plant it into a wider technology space of an OS for cars and household appliances. HP’s webOS ...

Technology / Software

created Aug 18, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2 | with audio podcast weblog

'My dishwasher is trying to kill me': New research finds harmful fungal pathogens living in dishwasher seals

A potentially pathogenic fungus has found a home living in extreme conditions in some of the most common household appliances, researchers have found. A new paper published in the British Mycological Society journal, Fungal Bi ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jun 20, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Google's Android ambitions go beyond mobile

Andy Rubin, Google's top mobile-phone executive, likes to talk about everything being "Android-ized." Android has become the top smartphone operating system in the United States, but Google's ambitions for it go well beyond ...

Technology / Software

created Jun 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 4

Suit against PC renter raises privacy questions

(AP) -- You didn't pay your bill. We need our computer back. And here's a picture of you typing away on it, the computer rental company told a client as it tried to repossess the machine. ...

Technology / Internet

created May 04, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 14

Smart gadgets may one day anticipate our needs

Don't be surprised if one day your refrigerator nags you to lose weight, your phone blocks calls it figures you're too stressed to handle, and your wisecracking car entertains you with pun-filled one liners.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Jul 09, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Canada broadcaster seeks to revolutionize energy consumption

Imagine loading your dishwasher after supper and walking away, allowing radio-activated technology and your energy provider to figure out when it would be cheapest to wash your dishes.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 02, 2010 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (9) | comments 6

Ford, Microsoft to work on electric-car charging

(AP) -- Ford Motor Co. and Microsoft Corp. have signed a deal to work together on a computerized link between houses, electric cars and utility companies to help manage energy use.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Mar 31, 2010 | popularity 2.9 / 5 (7) | comments 7

Panasonic plans home-use storage cell

Panasonic Corp., which recently made a successful takeover bid for Sanyo Electric Co., plans to market a lithium-ion storage cell for home use around fiscal 2011.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (26) | comments 11

Calif. requires TVs to be more energy-efficient (Update)

(AP) -- California regulators adopted the nation's first energy-efficiency standards for televisions Wednesday in hopes of reducing electricity use at a time when millions of American households are switching ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Energy efficiency standards for appliances should include upstream costs

The U.S. Department of Energy should consider gradually changing its system of setting appliance energy-efficiency standards to a full-fuel-cycle measurement, which takes into account both the energy used to operate an appliance, ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new refrigerator could save you cool cash

Is your refrigerator eating you out of house and home? Chances are, if it's more than 10 years old, it's gulping enough energy to put a serious hurt on your wallet.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Mar 30, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Japan's Renesas ups chip outsourcing to Taiwan giant

Japan's Renesas Electronics said Monday it will boost the outsourcing of its chip production to Taiwan's TSMC, but it declined comment on reports it would cut about 30 percent of its staff.

Technology / Semiconductors

created 18 hours ago | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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