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Genius Unveils World’s First Battery-Free Wireless Mouse

Genius Unveils World’s First Battery-Free Wireless Mouse

Genius just took a big step forward for computer peripherals by launching the world’s first wireless battery-free mouse. The mighty mouse eschews wasteful AAAs and heavier lithium-ion batteries in

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Scotland to Build Two-Blade Offshore Wind Turbine with Helicopter Landing Pad

Scotland to Build Two-Blade Offshore Wind Turbine with Helicopter Landing Pad

A unique, two-blade wind turbine that features a helicopter landing pad will soon be rising off the eastern coast of Scotland. Scottish energy minister Fergus Ewing announced this week that the Scottish

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Paul Cocksedge Recycles Vinyl Records Into Low-tech Music Amplifiers

Paul Cocksedge Recycles Vinyl Records Into Low-tech Music Amplifiers

London-based designer Paul Cocksedge has transformed old vinyl records into ingenious low-tech amplifiers that give your smartphone’s volume a solid boost without the need for wires or electricity.

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Apple Unveils New iPhone 4S Instead of iPhone 5 – Is It Green?

Apple Unveils New iPhone 4S Instead of iPhone 5 – Is It Green?

Apple CEO Tim Cook just officially unveiled the iPhone 4S – instead of the much-anticipated iPhone 5 – at today’s live keynote in Cupertino – and although the next-generation

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MIT Unveils Artificial Leaf That Creates Hydrogen Fuel from Sunlight

MIT Unveils Artificial Leaf That Creates Hydrogen Fuel from Sunlight

MIT researchers just officially unveiled a device that uses sunlight to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. The device builds upon a breakthrough hydrogen producing technology developed in 2008, and

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10 Solar-Powered Designs to Charge Your Life

10 Solar-Powered Designs to Charge Your Life

From smartphones and e-readers to laptops and tablet computers, today’s high-tech devices put a wealth of information and utility at our fingertips – however it can be a real challenge to keep

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The Current Chameleon Helps Kids Monitor Their Real-Time Energy Usage

The Current Chameleon Helps Kids Monitor Their Real-Time Energy Usage

It’s hard to get today’s kids pumped up about anything that doesn’t feature a flashing screen or a fun shape. So to shift those young eyes from the latest video game over to the merits

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How Green is Apple?: A Half-Bitten Look at the Past Decade

How Green is Apple?: A Half-Bitten Look at the Past Decade

Computer giant Apple doesn’t have the best record when it comes to being green. Known for using hazardous materials, dodging questions about sustainability, and contributing to an ever-growing pile

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Germany May Build First Wind Power-Storing Coal Mines in the World

Germany May Build First Wind Power-Storing Coal Mines in the World

It’s a classic story line in sustainability: dirty tech goes green. We’ve seen coal mines transformed into geothermal energy stores and dirty plants become gorgeous green buildings. Now, for

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Solar-Powered Plastikoleum Tower Recycles Plastic Back into 900 Barrels of Oil a Day

Solar-Powered Plastikoleum Tower Recycles Plastic Back into 900 Barrels of Oil a Day

When the people behind the Land Art Generator Initiative heard about inventor Akinori Ito’s machine, which converts plastics back into oil, they came up with an even more interesting concept.

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MIT SOFT Rockers: Solar-Powered Charging Stations Double as Lounge Chairs

MIT SOFT Rockers: Solar-Powered Charging Stations Double as Lounge Chairs

MIT SOFT Rockers are clean energy charging stations that double as rocking outdoor lounge furniture. Unlike conventional ‘hard’ urban infrastructure, The SOFT Rocker leverages its environment in a

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Clean-Tech Venture Capital Jumps 54% in First Quarter 2011

Clean-Tech Venture Capital Jumps 54% in First Quarter 2011

There’s no doubt about it, Silicon Vally is in another bubble, and this time, clean tech is getting its piece of the pie. Clean-tech venture capital funding jumped 54% in the first quarter of 2011,

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Brilliant LED Backpack Lets Night Cyclists Signal to Drivers

Brilliant LED Backpack Lets Night Cyclists Signal to Drivers

Riding a bike at night can be an exhilarating experience – the air is cleaner, there are fewer distractions, almost no cars, and the streets are yours! However night cycling can also be dangerous

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SAE World Congress Goes Green: Alternative Fuels, EV Tech, and Award for Chevy Volt

SAE World Congress Goes Green: Alternative Fuels, EV Tech, and Award for Chevy Volt

This year’s SAE World Congress in Detroit has gone green, honoring the design of electric vehicles such as the Chevy Volt and focusing on technologies that bring better efficiencies to new and

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Philadelphia’s Crane Arts Building Now Home to Area’s Largest Solar Power Array

Philadelphia’s Crane Arts Building Now Home to Area’s Largest Solar Power Array

Philadelphia’s Crane Arts Building is now home to the area’s largest photovoltaic solar array. Installed by Solar States, the array will provide a clean source of renewable energy to the arts and

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Vote for Your Favorite Sustainable Ideas in the Wild Energy Design Competition

Vote for Your Favorite Sustainable Ideas in the Wild Energy Design Competition

Hey green design aficionados! The Wild Energy design competition to find creative ways to power New Zealand’s land of lush green national parks, rivers and deep blue oceans has received a ton of

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President Obama’s State of the Union Calls the Clean Tech Future Our Sputnik Moment

President Obama’s State of the Union Calls the Clean Tech Future Our Sputnik Moment

In President Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech last night, he called our current quest for green technology our generation’s “Sputnik moment”, urging the nation to see other

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Top 6 Most Popular Green Design Stories of 2010

Top 6 Most Popular Green Design Stories of 2010

This past week, we brought you the top green architecture, technology, art, energy, product and transportation Inhabitat stories from 2010, but now it’s time for the main event – the top 6

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Google Invests in Backbone for East Coast Offshore Wind

Google Invests in Backbone for East Coast Offshore Wind

We’ve always had a sneaking suspicion that Google is close to taking over the world and they just keep adding fuel to our conspiracy theories. What now? Well, they’ve just invested in a $5

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Our Top 5 Gadgets for Green Guys

Our Top 5 Gadgets for Green Guys

Our ‘Sustainable Style Sundays’ usually features a fashion or two for the ladies, but this weekend we’re switching it up with a nod to the fellas. We all know a guy (or 50) who’s

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Top 5 Green Gadgets for Guys

Top 5 Green Gadgets for Guys

Our increasingly connected world has borne a booming crop of gadgets, however today’s guy can be easily beleaguered by unnecessary or poorly-conceived tech — which all too often finds its way

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Ireland Can Generate Three Times its Renewable Energy Needs

Ireland Can Generate Three Times its Renewable Energy Needs

According to a new book, Ireland has the potential to produce three times the country’s energy needs using renewable resources. The book, Green & Gold – Ireland a Clean Energy World

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