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Skinny music player concept is powered by body heat
Eco Factor: Sustainable music player doesn’t need extra batteries. Industrial designers Chih-Wei Wang and Shou-His Fu have come up with a concept music playback device that can be attached onto the...
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Japanese scientists aim to solve energy crisis by using desert sand
Eco Factor: Silica from desert sand to be used to make solar panels for renewable energy. A team of Japanese scientists have come up with an ingenious proposal to provide 50 percent of the world’s...
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Researchers developing technology to use car engine exhaust to generate...
Eco Factor: Technology promises better fuel consumption by converting engine exhaust into electricity. Researchers at Purdue University are creating a system that harvests heat from an engine’s...
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Compostable Packaging Test: Natureworks Ingeo Corn Cups
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2,200MPG Celeritas Solar Car Wins Shell Eco-Marathon
Solar cars are rapidly becoming more and more efficient, but they’re going to have to step up their game in order to beat the Celeritas, a 275 lb vehicle that can travel 2,200 miles per gallon. The...
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Team Purdue’s Suburban INhome Takes 2nd Place in the 2011 Solar Decathlon!
We’re thrilled to announce that this weekend Team Purdue took second place in the 2011 Solar Decathlon ! Purdue’s sensible, suburban-style INhome received top marks throughout the competition due to...
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Hip Hop-Powered Medical Sensor Monitors Blood Pressure Without Dropping a Beat
Hip Hop is good for the soul – and it could be good for the body too! Researchers at Purdue University recently developed a need breed of implantable sensors that can be powered by the deep...
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Purdue Team Tackling ‘No-Sleep Energy Bugs’ That Drain Smartphone Batteries
Are you fed up with your smartphone battery draining by lunchtime? Especially when you’re not even using it? Well, a team from Purdue University have set out to tackle this problem by proposing a...
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Purdue Uni Developing Early Warning System For Solar Storms By Measuring...
A team of scientists from Purdue University say they may have discovered a new method to predict solar flares more than a day before they occur . This would not only provide advance warning to help...
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Robotic Fabric Could Be Used to Create Moving Clothing
We’ve all heard of electronic fabrics , but robotic fabrics? That’s a new one. Researchers are Purdue University are developing an electronic skin-like fabric that can move on its own, twisting and...
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Researchers transform pesky packing peanuts into fast-charging batteries
Opening a package only to have your apartment flooded with packing peanuts is an annoying experience – and a total waste of plastic. But researchers Vilas Pol and Vinodkumar Etacheri at Purdue...
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Low-cost solar absorber could supercharge solar power plants
One of the major challenges in developing solar panels has been creating photovoltaic cells which can absorb as much solar energy as possible – without overheating to the point that they begin to...
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A spectacular staircase draws you into this breathtaking daylit loft in Vienna
This renovated loft in Vienna has a sculptural staircase at its core that appears to support the entire upper floor. Design studio Smartvoll sought to preserve as much of the original space as...
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First estimate of plastic entering oceans from rivers yields shocking results
How much plastic do rivers dump into the world’s oceans ? The Ocean Cleanup decided to find out. They conducted what they say is the “first-ever estimate of plastic emissions from rivers” and the...
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Fisker is back with the $130,000 400-mile range EMotion
Designer Henrik Fisker is getting ready to jump back into the EV segment with a new electric car called the EMotion. Now that Fisker’s former EV, the Karma has been reborn under new ownership, Fisker...
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‘Instantly rechargeable’ battery spells bad news for gas-guzzling cars
Charging an electric car remains an obstacle for some people, especially in areas lacking charging infrastructure. But new battery technology developed by researchers at Purdue University could change...
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