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Low-cost Wind Turbine for off-grid power
Engineers Without Borders attended the recent Makers Fair, and brought their low-cost wind turbine along to demonstrate. Intended to provide power for LED lighting in off-grid locations, the vertical...
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Bocci flush-fitting power outlets
No matter how slick the adaptor you plug into your wall, if the socket it’s going into looks ugly then the Good Housekeeping people will never be around to photoshoot your home. Thankfully Bocci are on...
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Philippe Starck Democratic Ecology personal wind turbine
Philippe Starck may be best known for semi-minimalist furniture, tricky to read watches and a portfolio that could fill your entire home, wardrobe and garden, but the poor guy has recently been taking...
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SlashGear Review – NZXT Performance Power 800
I spent several years working as a PC repair technician, and can’t even count the number of issues people had that were attributed to their power supply. Most of the time what had happened was that...
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Lian-Li MAXIMA Force PSUs for gamers & overclockers
Lian-Li have announced a new range of high-performance PSUs under the name MAXIMA Force, promising improved power regulation and safety features. Each meeting 80 Plus certification, the supplies will...
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Protect your Home Theater investment with Panamax power management and...
No, the Panamx power management and filtration systems will not be able to reduce your excessive PS3’s fan noise or your power bill. But it will improve your overall Home-theater system by removing...
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Google and GE partner to push for ‘Smart Grid’ Electricity
Google has announced a partnership with General Electric (GE) which will see the two companies cooperate on policy and technology solutions around electricity generation, transmission and distribution....
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Furutech Powerflux Power Cord is crazy expensive
Do you ever sometimes feel less than intelligent? Perhaps you think you have a rudimentary grasp of science and technology but one day when you’re faced with something particularly complex, you feel a...
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SlugPower remote controlled power socket
The picture might not suggest it, but this is actually a very clever power socket. The work of Phil Endecott, it’s actually linked up to a Linksys NSLU2, the network storage device known as the...
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Powergorilla Battery Charger juices up your portables
If you’re like me, you’re always running out of battery life on your various gadgets during the day. Whether it’s your cell phone, MP3 player or laptop, we all could use more battery life at some...
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Corsair TX850W 80% energy efficient power supply
Corsair have announced a new 850W power supply intended for gamers and overclocking enthusiasts. The Corsair TX850W is built using industrial grade components and can operate at 100-percent load at an...
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PS Audio ships IP-enabled PowerPlay power conditioners
Remotely access power management system is not a new application in IT fields for server or datacenter services; but it’s for home-theater appliances, especially a niche market product such as power...
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Cooler Master 500W Silent Pro PSU starts car [Video]
High-end PC power supplies get asked to do a lot – you don’t think that multi-head graphics card setup runs on pixie dust, do you? – but they’re seldom taken into the garage and asked to turn a car...
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IDAPT i2 and i3 Universal Chargers
Universal chargers usually look like complicated octopus creatures, with multiple proprietary tips dangling off a cluster of cables, or maybe a single box and a bag of easy-to-lose adapters, but...
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Sony demo hybrid fuel-cell concepts
Sony has been demonstrating a number of fuel-cell concepts, ranging from portable power units to rechargers and even home speaker systems that have their own methanol power-source. Of most interest...
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Tweet-a-Watt prompts XBee router hack
The Tweet-a-Watt project was good – in fact good enough to win a competition – but there are a few obvious flaws in the first iteration of the design. Not least is the requirement to have a computer...
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Wireless charging system spans 1m gaps
Wireless power isn’t new – Palm Pre owners have the option of it with the Touchstone accessory, but it’s also used in electric toothbrushes and various other applications – but the devices in question...
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BeamBox MiLi universal charger offers twin USB power
BeamBox have taken a few minutes out of their busy pico-projector schedule to give us this, the surprisingly useful MiLi universal charger. A palm-sized block with interchangeable US, UK, Australian...
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Korea push for 1W notebook standby, 2W PC, in latest green scheme
Korea has stepped up to be the first government to mandate a maximum power consumption rate for “green” PCs and laptops in standby mode. An evolution of the country’s Energy Efficiency program, the...
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Sony Lithium-Iron batteries boost power, lifespan; promise quicker charges
Sony have unveiled a new rechargeable battery which promises rapid charging, high power and extended lifespans. The new batteries are based on Olivine-type lithium iron phosphate, which enables a high...
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