News tagged with refrigerators

Next up: Smart homes

You've got a smartphone and maybe a smart TV, and may have heard that smart refrigerators are in the works. Next up: the smart home.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 28, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A robot learns how to tidy up after you

(Phys.org) -- Sooner than you think, we may have robots to tidy up our homes.

Electronics / Robotics

created May 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Now that you have a smartphone, it's time for a smart home

You've got a smartphone and maybe a smart TV, and may have heard that smart refrigerators are in the works. Next up: the smart home.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Safer air-conditioner refrigerant helps reverse rapid ozone-layer losses of past decades

If the approaching summer has you calling for an air-conditioning repair, you'll have a personal experience with one of the world's most successful global environmental efforts.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 04, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Materials inspired by Mother Nature: A 1-pound boat that could float 1,000 pounds

Combining the secrets that enable water striders to walk on water and give wood its lightness and great strength has yielded an amazing new material so buoyant that, in everyday terms, a boat made from 1 pound of the substance ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Mar 25, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (33) | comments 21 | with audio podcast

Low temperatures enhance ozone degradation above the Arctic

Extraordinarily cold temperatures in the winter of 2010/2011 caused the most massive destruction of the ozone layer above the Arctic so far: The mechanisms leading to the first ozone hole above the North Pole ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Google sees Android enhancing home appliances

Google's Android software is best known for powering smartphones, but executive chairman Eric Schmidt sees a future where it could also help devices communicate at home.

Technology / Software

created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Quick-cooking nanomaterials in microwave to make tomorrow's air conditioners

Engineering researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new method for creating advanced nanomaterials that could lead to highly efficient refrigerators and cooling systems requiring no ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

LG fridge chills cans, bottles in just minutes

South Korea's LG Electronics, a leader in smart appliances, has hit on a solution to a common frustration -- how to chill canned or bottled drinks in less than half an hour.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 6

Thinner thermal insulation

(PhysOrg.com) -- Insulation panels that are both thin and effective are expensive. At present these high-end products are built into energy-saving refrigerators. Innovative components and production techniques ...

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 4

Curtailing open grocery refrigerators' energy loss

Open refrigerated display cases holding eggs, cheese, drinks and more are a favorite of supermarket chains. Despite the easy access they offer customers, the inefficient energy-guzzlers cost retailers a huge ...

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 28, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

There is a solution to energy-gulping always-on TV boxes

So your TV show's over. You pick up the remote and press the button. Everything's off, right?

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jul 13, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Roman ship carried live fish in tank

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new report published in the International Journal of Nautical Archaeology shows that Roman fishing ships may have used a pumping system to supply oxygenated water to an onboard fish tank. ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jun 06, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 2 | with audio podcast report

Anesthetic gases heat climate as much as 1 million cars

When doctors want their patients asleep during surgery they gently turn the gas tap. But Anaesthetic gasses have a global warming potential as high as a refrigerant that is on its way to being banned in the ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 03, 2010 | popularity 2.9 / 5 (8) | comments 11

Physicists propose quantum refrigerator

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Bristol in the UK have proposed a refrigerator that consists of just a few quantum particles -- qubits.

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Sep 01, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 2 | with audio podcast report