Uncategorized

Summer gives the best diet with fruits and vegetables, especially when served chilled. So, it is a season for your refrigerator to store lots of fruits and vegetables. But, do you know, these yummy fruit and vegetables emit ethylene gas when ripen?!…

Save your written texts in your note book – not write! Here is a beautiful note book for a computer geek. Every sticker from old 3.5″ floppies is removed carefully, and converted into this tiny pocket note book. Each disk has also been formatted to…

True, every industrial process uses energy and creates waste. But, what if the process creates less waste? It would really be a relief to the environment. This is what Carpet-Burns is doing, rather in a bit more innovative way.

The company…

Here is a wonderful piece of innovation that beautifully marries visual art with energy-efficiency. This is a new vertical-axis wind turbine named quietrevolution. What makes this turbine so special is not only its beauty, but also because it is…

The trend towards environmentally-friendly technology is growing in leaps and bounds. Here is a new “green” roof made by an architectural organization for itself. Washington’s American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) building makes its…

Now the station platforms don’t seem to keep away form becoming eco-friendly or energy efficient. To replace those incandescents, LED lamps are being used in railway platforms to indicate the arrival of trains.

Thanks to DDP, a developer of…

Here comes a solution to the increasing toxic landfills created from thrown away batteries. This is all done by a wireless chip, developed by the researchers of the University of Rochester. Compared to current designs, this chip needs ten times less…

With the world booming with new cars put on the roads each day, it is really clever to bring out one that would really not struggle for space to run safely on the roads. Perhaps thinking on these lines, a team of European scientists developed a…

Holograms to cut the cost of solar modules! Yes, Prism Solar Technologies in New York has developed a proof-of-concept solar module to use holograms to concentrate light, and this lead to a cut in solar module cost by 75 percent. And this concept can…

Amid finding ways to make energy-efficient fuel, a new process to convert biomass to a mixed alcohol fuel has come to serve the consumers. This mixed alcohol fuel contains more energy compared to fuel ethanol. Thanks to Prof. Mark Holtzapple, a Texas..