GE unveils Yves Behar-designed electric vehicle charger

Eco Factor: Electric car charger reduces battery charging time. GE has unveiled a new smart-grid-ready electric car charger in San Francisco. Dubbed, WattStation, the charger has been designed in part by Yves Behar and is intended to become a new icon for electric car driver and hopefully encourage others to adopt a green ride as [...]

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Electree bonzai solar charger leaves you craving

You do not have much to look at a solar charger. They are etched out in standard shapes and sizes using the same gray crap strictly confining their usage to little else than ensuring sufficient charge for our ever-hungry batteries. Electree too does the same, but with grace and style. Designed by Vivien Muller, Electree is [...]

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Magic Charger: A Power Generating Rubik’s Cube

The Rubik’s Cube has existed for long as a frustrating puzzle, but if designer Zheng Weixi’s concept becomes real, the cube could also generate power. That would perhaps be a little victory for people who spend hours trying to solve the cube but reach nowhere. In terms of looks, the concept shows just two colors, making [...]

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Solar Charger Provides Light, Charges Gadgets

The Solar Pebble design offers a lot, so to say, it makes portable solar chargers really a pragmatic option. The design has been basically created as a humanitarian product for rural Africa, but its features make it fit for any place the sun shines at. The Solar Pebble is the work of Plus Minus Design Ltd, [...]

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Energizer Installing Trojan Malware With Battery Charger

Energizer’s DUO Charger is a battery charger for NiMH (nickel metal hydride) rechargable batteries. (This isn’t the same as USB batteries that have a built-in USB port on the batteries themselves.) Energizer provided a nice little desktop app for computers so that the user could see the charge status of their batteries along with [...]

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Finally, A No-Draw Charger

AT&T has just announced a USB-based telephone charger that does not pull electricity from the wall when it’s not charging a phone. I don’t know about you, but my charger is plugged in 100% of the time. That charger pulls a tiny amount of energy from the wall 24 hours a day 365 days a [...]

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AT&T’s ZERO Charger Fights off Vampire Power

The large amount of power and money we lose to vampire power is startling, and it is good to see that some serious work is finally being done in the direction to prevent this huge waste of power. While things like the Fair Energy Clock could help fight off the problem, the clock happens to [...]

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“Green” cellphone charger

After the mobile phones spread around the world designers and engineers started to think more seriously about the design of the phones, but the chargers still the same. No one wanted to redesign them, but some designers working on special solutions. This one is called the Vine cell phone charger and is someone brings it [...]

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