The city of Sakai in Japan is going to have a glittering new “green” addition in 2010, when Sharp and Kansai Electric Power build two massive solar-electric power plants there. In a bid to make Sharp’s factories more eco-friendly, the two plants will generate 10 megawatts and 28 megawatts of electricity and reduce CO2 emissions by 10 kilotons yearly. Apparently the “Sakai City Waterfront Mega Solar Power Generation Plan” will be among the biggest like it in Read more… »
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It’s been a long, leak-filled wait, but Apple finally took the wraps off its 3G iPhone. Thinner edges, full plastic back, flush headphone jack, and the iPhone 2.0 firmware — Apple’s taking a lot of the criticisms to heart from the first time around. Obviously 3G is at the forefront, but they’re also making sure it’s available all over internationally, works with enterprises, runs 3rd party apps… and does it all for cheaper. Apple claims its 3G speeds trounce the competition, with pageloads 36% faster than the N95 and Treo 750 — and of course it completely trounces the old EDGE data speeds.
Battery life isn’t getting put out to pasture though, with 300 hours of standby, 8-10 hours of 2G talk, 5 hours of 3G talk, 7 hours of video and 24 hours of audio. GPS is also a go. Apple is using A-GPS, which supplements Read more… »
The Organic Thin-Film Solar Cell has been created by Mitsubishi and Tokki Corps. The solar cells are currently prototype at the moment, but are not that far away from being launched looking at the pictures.
The first usage of this technology could be built in to an imitation plant. With the solar cells being so thin, it would allow them to sit on the leaves of a fake plant and provide a green environment in both how the plant looks in the home, but also how the plant provides electrical energy. Read more… »
iH70 computer speakers have an iPod dock built directly into the body. Why’s this useful when you’ve theoretically got your computer plugged into your computer; the same computer that already has the music library that you fed your iPod with? That’s a good question, but iHome’s probably assuming you’re taking these speakers to, say, work. Or something.
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