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Upcoming energy efficient technologies

Upcoming energy efficient technologies
19/03/2016 | Innovation
Here’s the weekly capsule that captures upcoming green technologies. Can you imagine installing solar panels by rolling them out, as you would do with a carpet? Roll-Array promises exactly that. Their flexible solar power system can be setup in two minutes flat.   Talking of solar power...
BMW, boeing, deltec, gear, green, hyperloop, inhabitat, InhabitatWeekInGreen, partner, roll-array, science, syndicated, tesla, teslamodels, weekingreen

A necklace that monitors your diet

A necklace that monitors your diet
19/03/2016 | Lifestyle
Researchers from the University of Buffalo have built a prototype of a necklace that determines your calorific intake depending on the noises that you make while chewing and swallowing. For the tech conscious amongst us who count calories of what they eat, image recognition to count calories is so...
autodietary, diet, food, food and drink, food-and-drink, foodanddrink, gear, health, medicine, science, universityatbuffalo, wearable, wearables

Researchers combine features of geckos and ants in tiny robots

Researchers combine features of geckos and ants in tiny robots
15/03/2016 | Innovation
Using biomimicry researchers use 6 robots weighing less than half a pound each to tug a two ton car. Researchers from Stanford University may have had ants for inspiration when they designed their tiny uBots. The researchers have created tiny robots, each weighing less than half a pound, which in...
Ants, car, Microrobots, robots, science, StanfordUniversity, uTug, video

Revolutionary battery tech could replace lithium-ion batteries

Revolutionary battery tech could replace lithium-ion batteries
11/03/2016 | Innovation
Miniaturized solid oxide fuel cells could significantly boost battery durability and performance. No matter how energy efficient a gadget is, it is ultimately limited by its energy source – the ever pervasive lithium ion batteries.   That is what we thought, until now. Researchers from the...
battery, drones, ElectricVehicle, fuelcell, gadgetry, gadgets, lithiumion, nature, pohanguniversityofscienceandtechnology, science, smartphone

GE researchers crack twin problems of CO2 pollution and solar batteries

GE researchers crack twin problems of CO2 pollution and solar batteries
10/03/2016 | Innovation
In a significant breakthrough that could effectively make gas fired power plants more effective, at the very least, scientists have GE have capitalized on the company’s core strengths and have cracked the twin problems that have been plaguing the planet since decades. For the last couple of...
Battery, CarbonCapture, CO2, Coal, GE, GeneralElectric, green, science, Solar

Swiss researchers create stretchable circuits

Swiss researchers create stretchable circuits
01/03/2016 | Innovation
This technology is likely to transform wearables and robotics in the near future. What does robots and smart clothing have in common – Swiss researchers. In an invention that will create electronic circuits which can be stretched almost four times their original length in any given direction, Swiss...
Bioelectronics, Circuits, Elastic, Electronics, gallium, gold, robots, science, Stretchable, video, wearables