The University of Michigan has come up with a novel idea. Apparently they had asked themselves “Why can’t we power our own cell-phones and other devices?” Playing with the regenerative braking systems that are in some Hybrid vehicles they came up with a knee brace that captures the kinetic energy released as we walk.
This could [...]

With a 6 Million dollar grant from the Department of Energy, Berkley Labs, with the help of a couple other Institutions, is working on extending the life of Lithium-Ion batteries.
What they are doing for the first time is to study the batteries at a microscopic level. The demand for lithium batteries lasting 10-15 years is [...]

Zap is a California based company that is riding the current trend to produce more and more alternative fuel-based vehicles. Zap which stands for Zero Air Pollution® has recently announced the ZAP Alias and the Zap-X Crossover SUV. They have joined up with Lotus Design in order to create some interesting new designs. The ZAP-X [...]

In the continuing search for more energy sources the Australian company CSIRO has managed to make bio-fuel out of various types of trash. Using forest thinnings, waste paper, crop residue and garden waste they have worked out a technique to convert this into fuel. Granted this is still in the test mode and will be [...]

General Motors is banking on rising gas prices and Americas love of trucks in order to sell their new hybrids. GM is stating that they have increased gas mileage by 25% without losing performance in the 2009 GMC Sierra. They are using the touted two-mode system that they developed for the 2008 Chevy Tahoe, GMC [...]

As our society tries to get less and less dependant on oil, we need other forms of power to be reasonable and renewable. It needs to have the power that we need when we need it, yet at the same time it can’t cost & arm and a leg. Too many body parts are being [...]

Today I’m going to complain a bit. Now I’m sure there are some brains out there working on this, however I’m in the mood to complain. I know how enamored we have become to our portable music I myself remember my Sony Walkman cassette player. Then I upgraded to the portable CD-player now I am [...]

Some intelligent people at the Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre have come up with an interesting way to monitor people that have had head trauma. It is a portable EEG (Electroencephalography) system that looks somewhat like a stereo headset with miniature solar cells on it. They have managed to make a hybrid power supply by using the [...]

I know I have been talking quite a bit about nanotubes in the last couple months. The truth of the matter is that we seem to be on the verge of a technological battery revolution. There are many companies researching carbon nanotubes in conjunction with batteries as these wonders have an amazing potential for what [...]

Since Sony has been declared the winner in the High Definition format war, there are many companies scrambling to add this awesome new toy to our computers and laptops. Anyone that had the first generation of Blu-ray drives on their laptops knows that if you were going to play a Blu-ray disc you had better [...]