Nothing wards off vampire power better than a crucifix powerstrip. Alexander Pincus of Means of Production delivers with a 12 outlet cruciform surge protector that accommodates oversize adapters and provides comprehensive protection from evil, power surges, and AC contamination. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Ward off Evil Vampire Power With Crucifix Power Bar
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Photo: Flickr, CC Negawatts Strike Back The immensely popular LCDs screens that are found everywhere in the modern home (television, computer, laptop, cellphones, etc) use less energy than CRTs, the previous technology, but they are still far from being optimally efficient. Only about 8% of the light emitted by a LCD’s backlight makes its way out, and the rest is wasted. But that might be about to change thanks to a new filter that could boost that efficiency by more than 400% and allow around 36% of the light to pass through. Read on for more details…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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New Filter Could Make LCDs >400% More Efficient
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Photo via Designboom Japanese artist Akira Nakayasu’s specialty is robotic plants. He creates things like sunflowers that react to human movement, making the flower seem to communicate with the people around it. His latest work is called “Plant,” an interactive piece that was inspired by grass blowing in the wind. With 169 artificial leaves that react independently to the presence of a human’s body, such as a hand waving over it, the unarguably interesting and relatively cool piece begs the question, “What’s the point?”… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Robotic Plants Serve an Altruistic Purpose (Video)
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Images via Voltaic Systems We usually hear about new solar-charging bags from Voltaic Systems, known for its very high quality backpacks, laptop cases and messenger bags. However, the company is bringing us something new — stand-alone chargers. They have three new models available, each boasting about four times the charging power of most solar chargers out there on the market. Voltaic states they can charge a smartphone in just 4-5 hours of direct sunlight, which is a fast charge by any account. It seems we might finally have small, personal chargers that make practical sense. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Voltaic Systems Launches Slick Stand-Alone Solar Chargers
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Image via Earthtechling When we see personal chargers, they’re almost always based on absorbing energy from the sun . Once in a great while, we also hear of new personal wind-powered chargers . But we almost never hear about water-powered personal chargers. This concept device, called the Vena Microhydro System by designer Danial Hull, bridges a gap in options for the outd… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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River-Powered Personal Charger Expands Energy Options for the Outdoorsy
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I am B Artists do amazing things with garbage; we have shown whole exhibitions of it. I am B ink and media blog gave artist Faith Pearson their empty ink cartridges (do people at media blogs still print?)… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Creative Recycling: Artist Turns Ink Cartridges Into Sci-Fi Art
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Photo by Gonzalo Baeza Hernández The UK has started up its own green ranking system for mobile handsets , but Apple wants no part of it. The company has refused to allow the iPhone to be included in the system by O2, but its reasons for declining the opportunity aren’t exactly clear. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Apple Refuses To Take Part In UK’s First Cell Phone Ranking System
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Image credit: Kanu Hawaii /Creative Commons Aquaponics usually stirs up a good deal of interest and debate here. From the awesome urban aquaponics of Growing Power to industrial-scale aquaponics operations , plenty of people believe in the idea of recycling fish poop into plant food in an efficient semi-closed-loop system. And yet questions remain—I’ve asked before whether
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Can Aquaponics Pay for Itself?
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Image via Google Lat-Long Blog Google Earth’s ocean layers are incredible, and the company has made the feature of their much loved software mobile — Google Earth 1.1 for (of course) Android has just added their oceans layer. You can zoom around the sea floor, exploring the entire Monterey Bay Canyon, for example, or search through photos and videos from contributors. It’s certainly an entertaining and educational way to spend a morning train commute. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Google Earth Adds Ocean Exploration to Android App
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Wired computer labs work fine for kids. Photo by mikecogh via Flickr. Guest blogger Andrea Donsky is co-founder of NaturallySavvy.com . Wi-Fi is facing a lot of opposition from parents and teachers in Ontario. Last week, Lloyd Alter was critical of parents’ claims that Wi-Fi may pose a health threat to students at elementary schools , … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Wi-Fi in Schools: Should We Apply the Precautionary Principle?
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