Among the many wonderful things to come out of this year’s Greener Gadget Conference was the Greener Gadget Design Competition. Fifty green gadgets were voted for online and live at the conference to come up with a winner, the Tweet-a-Watt. The Tweet-a-Watt works like a Kill-a-Watt except that it’s also rigged to broadcast your energy [...]

The 2009 International Nanotechnology Exhibition in Tokyo is a hot bed of tiny tech. Among the items on display at the exhibition is the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology’s (AIST) sugar cube-sized solid-oxide fuel cell. The tiny solid-oxide fuel cell contains 25 tiny needle modules that are less than one millimeter each. [...]

I just installed the Greenbar toolbar and have got to say it’s a great green idea. Once downloaded and installed this handy little toolbar takes all the effort out of hunting for green blogs, websites, and feeds while also giving you instant access to your Facebook page, Twitter account and tons of handy little apps [...]

Samsung unveiled Blue Earth today, the first touch screen, environmentally friendly smartphone that runs on solar power. The solar powered smartphone can not only be charged through the solar panel on it’s back but also boasts a low energy and low carbon emission manufacturing process and a casing made from recycled water bottle plastic. The [...]

LG Display has recently introduced a brand new LCD panel that can be illuminated by sunlight instead of the backlight when using your laptop outdoors. The LCD is 14.1 inches and will be installed in select notebook PCs. The LCD panel uses backlight data signal switching technology, which means the backlight panels can be switched [...]

A startup company from California called PowerAir is building zinc oxide fuel cells. In their fuel cells, zinc is dissolved in an electrolyte solution, and exposure to the air causes zinc oxide to form, releasing electrons and generating electricity. Theoretically, the zinc oxide can be collected, reduced back to zinc metal and placed back into [...]

Japanese electronics manufacturer Funai has developed an LCD technology that doesn’t need a backlight. Regular LCDs produce images by shining a light through each liquid crystal pixel, and so the light source is mounted from behind. Funai’s technology, however, allows outside light (sunlight, for example) to enter the LCD and reflect back out. As the [...]