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 of [...]

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 the [...]

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 slapping [...]

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 million [...]

Fallbrook Technologies has a transmission system that they claim could considerably increase efficiency in everything from cars to wind turbines. The most amazing part of the system, which they call the NuVinci Transmission, is that it doesn’t use any gears.
Now, as proof of the potential value in inherent in the NuVinci Transmission, Fallbrook Tech has [...]

The recently formed Ze-gen has stated that is has raised $20 million in order to commercialize its melted iron technology that turns trash into power or heat.
The amazing system works by dumping construction and municipal waste into a swirling pool of liquid iron. The extreme temperature pulls carbon from the trash and breaks hydrocarbons into [...]