Sinclair is best known for the classic ZX81 microcomputer, the barmy C5 mobility scooter, and the rucksack-friendly A-Bike, but British inventor Clive Sinclair isn't done yet. His latest urban transport idea is the Sinclair X-1, a £595 ($968) battery-powered (but pedal-assisted) buggy with a large acrylic bubble.
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AUO demo touchscreen solar laptop keyboard & tablet/notebook glasses-free 3D panels
Logitech were pretty proud of their K750 wireless solar keyboard, but AU Optronics is planning to best them at the upcoming FPD International expo with a 14-inch solar-powered touch keyboard solution for notebooks. Basically a touchscreen display for a virtual keyboard, integrated into a solar panel, the new tech will go on show alongside AUO's new 10.1- and 15.6-inch glasses-free 3D panels.
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Bloom notebook concept dismantles in 120 seconds [Video]
It's a sad fact of life that, while we give plenty of thought to our gadgets when they're shiny and new, we don't tend to consider what happens at the other end of their life-cycle. An engineering class at Stanford and Finland's Aalto University think they've come up with a solution, for laptops at least, with their Bloom notebook: it can be disassembled in just two minutes, without tools and in just 10 steps.
Video demo after the cut
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Logitech Wireless Solar Keyboard K750 bypasses batteries
Logitech has unveiled its latest keyboard, the Logitech Wireless Solar Keyboard K750, and as the name suggests it relies on the sun for its power. Looking a little like an oversized solar calculator, the K750 is a 1/3-inch thick but can run for up to three months in total darkness (after a full charge, of course).
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Motorola Citrus is Verizon’s 25% recycled Android
Motorola's Droid Pro may have been the more eye-catching of Verizon's new Android handsets, but it wasn't the only model brought along. The company also announced the Motorola Citrus, a 3-inch touchscreen phone running Android 2.1 with a MOTOBLUR-inspired UI and on a 528MHz Qualcomm processor.
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Thinksound ts02+ mic Headphones Review
Being a green gadget is big business these days; you can get plenty of mileage out of using recycled packaging, donating a dollar to a penguin for every unit sold, or generally avoiding unnecessary pollution with how you transport or produce your device. Still, we do wonder exactly how much is lip-service and how much is authentic Earth-friendly consideration. Claiming to be resolutely in the latter category is Thinksound, who reckon their ts02+ mic headphones deliver decent audio performance without slaughtering the planet in the process. Check out our full review after the cut.
Motorola outs NYXgreen super-capacitor remote
Motorola's remote control team has been busy, looking at not only how they can speed up text entry when using the company's IPTV set-top boxes but how we can avoid switching AA batteries every couple of months. The former problem is easier, of course - their NYXboard slaps a QWERTY keyboard on the reverse of a regular remote - while the latter rather excitingly uses super capacitors and a fast-charging stand.
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Butt-powered sensors in under 3 years promise Toyota & Panasonic
Toyota, Panasonic and a consortium of twenty other Japanese companies are hoping to take advantage of your shuffling buttocks, with plans to create and commercialize [sub required] movement and heat powered components to reduce wiring in cars. The project - led by an NTT Data lab - believes the new technology could cut down on kilometer of power wiring to the average 150 sensors in a luxury car, though it also has applications in pacemakers and boilers.
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NEC fit Nissan Leaf speed chargers in Oregon: 80% in 30 minutes
NEC aren't just responsible for the batteries in Nissan's Leaf EV, they've also been working on the chargers too. The Japanese company has kicked off a new pilot scheme in Oregon, installing chargers that can rejuice electric cars to around 80-percent in just 20-30 minutes. The scheme follows on from a project started in October 2009, with around fifty of the new third-gen chargers being installed.
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Apple Battery Charger claims lowest “vampire draw”
Looks like we spoke too soon when we said the new 27-inch LED Cinema Display was Apple's last new product of the morning; they've also slipped out a new Apple Battery Charger, intended for use with battery-powered peripherals like the Magic Mouse and Magic Trackpad. The Cupertino company reckons their new charger is "optimized" for their own batteries, though of course it'll rejuice any AA-sized NiMH cells you slot in.
In the box is the charger itself and six batteries, with Apple claiming up to a 10-year lifespan for them. Also making the whole thing a little more earth-friendly is the fact that it apparently has the lowest "vampire draw" (or standby power consumption) of "any similar charger on the market": just 30 milliwatts, in fact.
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NEC begins Nissan Leaf EV battery mass production
NEC has begun mass production of high-capacity lithium ion batteries for electric cars, and while that might not sound interesting, if you're considering a Nissan Leaf it's NEC's power packs that will be keeping you moving. Initially production is at the company's Sagamihara plant in Japan, but in of 2013 the joint-venture started by NEC and Nissan plan to shift production to a new facility in Tennessee, USA, for EV models destined for domestic use.
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Compliant Shading Enclosure auto-cools buildings with sun-powered windows
As architects try to reduce the amount of energy spent on air conditioning, high-tech electrochromatic glass products that sandwich LCD layers and are dimmable are becoming increasingly common. Nonetheless, they still suck up power, and so that's why Brent Vander Werf's Compliant Shading Enclosure is so interesting. A series of fabric apertures sandwiched in-between layers of doubled-glazing, his system relies on bistable springs that flex according to the heat from the sun itself, opening and closing the gaps as they move.
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