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Is Charging Your Gadget Overnight Waste Of Energy?

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

[caption id="attachment_422" align="alignright" width="283" caption="A six gadget charger"][/caption] Many times we leave our gadgets Mobile phones, PDAs, MP3 players, Cameras, Laptops etc with charger plugged in overnight. Lets check if this is a major waste of energy.. What happens if you leave the mobile phone plugged in all night? According to measurements from ...

Technology In 2008, Some Important Trends And Events

Thursday, January 1st, 2009

A number of technologies have exploded throughout 2008, improving and influencing our daily life. Here is a quick look at some of the technology events that happened during 2008. Big Bang Experiment: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, intended to collide opposing beams of ...

Skin-tenna: Antenna That Uses Skin To Transmit Signals

Friday, June 20th, 2008

Researchers at Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland, designed a wireless antenna that channels signals along human skin could broadcast signals over your body to connect up medical implants or portable gadgets. The new power-efficient approach could make more of established medical devices like pacemakers or help future implants distributed around ...

AMD Unveils Energy-Efficient Processor

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

AMD - a leading purveyor of advance silicon modules - has introduced a new Energy Efficient AMD Athlon X2 4850e dual-core processor. At 45 watts, this latest central processing unit enables OEMs to offer differentiated solutions and facilitates higher conductivity for miniaturization and better usability of CPU form factors. 45-watt processor ...

Research: Bacteria Capable Of Generating Electricity

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

Researchers at the University of Minnesota studying bacteria capable of generating electricity have discovered that riboflavin (commonly known as vitamin B-2) is responsible for much of the energy produced by these organisms. The bacteria, Shewanella, are commonly found in water and soil and are of interest because they can convert simple ...

Wireless Energy Transfer Possibility

Monday, February 4th, 2008

Wireless energy transfer has been thought about for decades by scientists all over the world. There were many experiments done and some are successfully till some extent. In 2007, US researchers have successfully tested an experimental system to deliver power to devices without the need for wires. The experimental setup consisted of ...

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