Tag: Energy
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Energy-saving tips for your kitchen tech
The modern kitchen is full of tech; from kettles, microwaves, and slow cookers, these are just some to name. The rise in tech has also been accompanied with the rise in a desire to save energy. You can easily make your kitchen tech more energy efficient in simple ways. Choose energy-efficient appliances If you’re looking…
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Hidden Mickey Mouse Spotted at Disney’s Solar Farm
Here’s something we hope will bring some midweek ch-ears to our readers! Disney has opened a solar farm in Florida just off the entrance road of its Epcot theme park. But what’s so special about that, you might ask? Well, what a quick glance while driving past might not reveal is that there’s a familiar…
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Wireless Power for All May Become a Reality Thanks to Wi-Fi
If any of you have ever heard of Tesla, the inventor not the car company, then you will probably know that he claimed to be able to power every hut in Africa wirelessly. His claims were not believed by everybody unfortunately and the idea was never put into practice properly. With the news this month…
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Xbox One Setup Adds Energy Saving Option
The Xbox One likes to be on a lot more than you think. the current default setting for the console is to remain ‘on’, so to speak, as long as it’s plugged in. The console doesn’t power on in order to receive files, instantly power on, and also to listen out for the ‘ Xbox…
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China Builds Hydrogen Fueled Tram
Whilst there’s still an ongoing issue of pollution in China, the country is fighting the good fight for clean energy research and development. Rather than opting to clean up existing technology, the Chinese school of though is to instead invest and focus in finding new ways of generating power and travelling around whilst still using…
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Apple To Fund $848 Million Solar Farm
Apple are about to take a leap forward into the future of clean energy, as the tech giant is set to pour a huge sum into the building of a brand new solar farm, which is expected to generate huge amounts of energy from the sun’s rays and send it direct to Apple’s premises as…
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REEL TO REAL ► Matrix Style Human Batteries – Study into “Blood Energy” Begins on Snails!
The Gadget Helpline‘s REEL TO REAL is a regular feature to the blog, aimed at tech and film fanatics, which will reveal how the sci-fi and futuristic gadgets we see on screen in movies and television are making their way into real-life. Take a seat, grab your popcorn and enjoy the show! There’s some truly…
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AIRE Mask Concept Charges Your Smartphone While You Breathe!
A Brazilian inventor has come up with an innovative new way to charge up our gadgets using a method that as natural as breathing – by actually breathing! The AIRE Mask turns lung power into electrical power, while making you look bad like Bane in the Dark Knight Rises, and a number of portable devices…
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Google Kills Off Google Wave and Six Other Products
Forget Spring clearouts, Google is making Winter clearouts the next big thing. The Mountain View Company has announced it will be ending 7 of its experimental software services, including the failed social project Google Wave. In a post written on its official blog page, Google confirmed that Wave would become read-only and signups would be…
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Cheap Televisions May Be More Expensive in the Long Run
New tests conducted by market research magazine Which? on different types of televisions available to customers seem to suggest that low-cost supermarket brand televisions consume more power and cost more money on energy bills in comparison to brand-name counterparts, meaning expensive television models may be more financially viable to consumers in the long run. The…
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Facebook sets up data centre in Lapland
Facebook has just announced that the social networking site plans to build its latest data centre in Lapland, Sweden. No, it’s not because they have been lured by Father Christmas – it’s actually an ideal climate for an energy efficient data centre. The brand new data centre will be the first outside of the US, …