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Aston Martin Cygnet city-car revealed

Chris Davies, Jun 30th 2009 Discuss [0]

Aston Martin have revealed their plans for a city-car, the Cygnet, offering environmentally-conscious motoring and 5-star Euro NCAP safety together with the brand's premium badge. Based on the Toyota iQ, the Aston Martin Cygnet will apparently be priced at under £20,000 ($33k); it'll also offer dramatically less performance than the company's DBS, DB9 and Vantage models. Read The Full Story

MDI air-powered car gets driven: $8,380 by end of 2009

Chris Davies, Jun 29th 2009 Discuss [1]

MDI have been working on their air-powered engine for years now, and Edmunds Inside Line were lucky enough to take the 2010 AIRPod prototype for a spin. Distinctively designed, the AIRPod throws out internal combustion in favor of running from compressed-air, a full tank of which - refilled in just two minutes with the right infrastructure - is good for 90-125 miles with a single occupant. Read The Full Story

Koenigsegg Quant 170mph solar electric car headed for production?

Chris Davies, Jun 18th 2009 Discuss [0]

The thought of Swedish uber-car manufacturer Koenigsegg ever actually putting their Quant concept car into production was a laughable joke back when they revealed it in March. The solar electric vehicle was billed as a "car of the future" designed to showcase NLV Solar's nifty photovoltaic and accumulator tech; now, according to one Koenigsegg insider, the firm intends to put the Quant into limited production. Read The Full Story

Sony Ericsson GreenHeart C901 & Naite earth-friendly cellphones

Chris Davies, Jun 4th 2009 Discuss [1]

Sony Ericsson have announced a pair of eco-friendly cellphones, the GreenHeart C901 (left) and Naite (right). They're each part of what's set to be an ongoing GreenHeart range, with recycled materials, minimal packaging, non-toxic paints and even an electronic on-phone user-guide rather than a printed manual. Read The Full Story

Tweet-a-Watt prompts XBee router hack

Chris Davies, Apr 6th 2009 Discuss [0]

The Tweet-a-Watt project was good - in fact good enough to win a competition - but there are a few obvious flaws in the first iteration of the design. Not least is the requirement to have a computer turned on to receive power-use stats and tweet about them; now Adafruit Industries are back with their solution, a hacked $40 ASUS router with XBee wireless capabilities. Video overview after the cut Read The Full Story

Tesla Model S Sedan official: $49,900 from 2011

Chris Davies, Mar 27th 2009 Discuss [0]

Until now the most we've seen of the Tesla Model S Sedan has been a coquettish wheel-arch and a glimpse of rump. Now the electric car company has officially unveiled their 300-mile range seven-seater, and promised production kicking off in Q3 2011. Read The Full Story

MSI Wind Nettop CS120: superfrugal plus DVD burner

Chris Davies, Mar 12th 2009 Discuss [0]

MSI have announced a new, eco-friendly version of their Wind Nettop, the MSI Wind Nettop CS120. The CS120 measures just 11.1 x 9.45 x 2.56 inches but manages to include a slot-load DVD burner, Intel Atom 230 1.6GHz processor, 160GB hard-drive and 1GB of memory (maximum 2GB). Read The Full Story

Marvell SheevaPlug: $99 Linux PC hidden in a wall-wart

Chris Davies, Feb 24th 2009 Discuss [10]

Marvell have been talking up their SheevaPlug reference design, a wall-wart power plug that actually hides an entire Linux PC. Priced at $99, inside the SheevaPlug there's an ARM-based 1.2GHz Sheeva embedded processor, 512MB of DDR2 memory, 512MB of flash storage, gigabit ethernet and USB 2.0; in fact the development kit is available now. Read The Full Story

SmartSwitch: tougher to turn when consumption is high

Chris Davies, Feb 23rd 2009 Discuss [0]

You can tell some people about being considerate to the environment until you're blue in the face, but they'll still flagrantly waste power. At that point, maybe it's time for the light switch to fight back: Peter Russo and Brendan Wypich of Stanford University have developed the SmartSwitch, a light control that gives tactile feedback as to how much energy is already being used, whenever you try to flick it. Video demo after the cut Read The Full Story

Fujitsu PRIMERGY TX120 S2 compact eco-friendly server

Chris Davies, Feb 23rd 2009 Discuss [0]

Fujitsu have announced a compact server that uses less energy than a desk lamp and offers a variety of RAID setups for home-office and small business users. The Fujitsu PRIMERGY TX120 S2 resembles a compact desktop PC, but uses Intel's latest power-saving Core 2 Duo processors paired with up to 16GB of RAM and remote ServerView Server Management control. Both the P8400 (25W) or T9400 (35W) CPUs are available, using 25-percent less power than rival systems. As for storage, the TX120 S2 can be fitted with either four 320GB SATA or 146GB 15,000rpm SAS hard-drives. Nonetheless, according to Fujitsu it's still whisper-quiet at 27dB. Read The Full Story

Samsung Blue Earth eco-friendly solar smartphone

Chris Davies, Feb 16th 2009 Discuss [2]

As well as their more mainstream devices, Samsung also announced the first in their new Blue Earth series, an eco-friendly handset made from recycled PCM plastic, which is extracted from water bottles. On the back there's a solar panel, which Samsung are saying generate enough electronic power to "call anytime anywhere". Read The Full Story

Solar-powered Nintendo DS lets you throw away your charger

Chris Davies, Feb 12th 2009 Discuss [3]

Take one Nintendo DS, a handful of solar panels, some spare time and this Instructable, and you could end up with this: a solar-powered DS that you never have to plug into the mains again. By strapping four 60 x 60mm panels - each capable of a maximum 3 volts at 40 ma power output - to the top and bottom outside casings of the DS, you can actually create a trickle-charger potent enough to avoid ever needing mains power. Read The Full Story