The Greener Gadgets Design Competition, hosted by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), handed out its winners for most innovative designs last Thursday. Ten finalists were selected out of the hundreds of designers that applied with first place going to AUG/Living Goods Program. This concept is a smart phone app that scans bar codes of produce [...]

In a recent press release sent out by AT&T, the company stated that in its, “commitment to environmental sustainability,” they would be reducing the amount of packaging used and updating materials to be more environmentally friendly. Paper will be reduced by 60% and plastic by 30%. Packaging will also now utilize non-toxic materials and increase [...]

Nuclear batteries have been in use for military and aerospace applications, but are typically far larger. A team at the University of Missouri says that the batteries hold a million times as much charge as standard batteries. They employed a liquid semiconductor to capture and utilize the decay particles. The team’s solution uses a liquid [...]

Greenpeace International has released its annual “Guide to Greener Electronics” where it ranks leading electronics companies on their policies towards toxic chemicals, recycling and climate change. This year, PC makers made up the bottom of the list, Apple floated somewhere in the middle and cell phone makers got the highest marks. Below is the list [...]

The Financial Times Climate Change Contest had some amazing inventions competing for the $75,000 first place prize from Hewlett-Packard. Among the contestants were: Mootral, a feed supplement for livestock that reduces the methane they emit by 15 per cent. And Deflecktors, wheel covers that make delivery trucks more fuel-efficient by reducing drag. One of the [...]

With the Greener Gadgets Conference finally starting tomorrow in New York City we thought we’d give a brief preview of some of the 50 green gadget designs that have been entered in the conference’s design competition. The winner will get $3,000 to go towards helping make theirs a reality. You can see a complete list [...]

The fourth quarter of 2008 saw a record high number of patents filed for clean energy technology. An intellectual property law firm that conducted the survey on the clean energy tech patents showed that in total, there were 928 clean energy patents approved. Of the total clean energy technology patents granted since 2002, Honda had [...]

There are plenty of great renewable energy sources being investigated and improved upon from solar power and wind farms to tidal energy. But there is another field of study that we eco tech nuts are keeping our eyes on, and that’s the practice of capturing and using energy that is wasted in larger systems. Intel [...]

This year’s Consumer Electronics Show seemed to have an official theme of environmentalism. With every company hawking their latest green wares it felt like the tech industry had major some major leaps forward in reducing its environmental impact. But how many of these eco-friendly gadgets were having a real impact and how many were just [...]

One of the biggest pains in the butt for renewable energy technology has been the storage of energy. But if ReVolt Technology (I know, the name is hilarious) is correct, zinc might provide the most eco-friendly, effective and low-cost battery out there. The Swiss company received their second round of funding today with a $14 [...]