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28.12.09

Panasonic Will Market First Li-Ion Storage Battery for Home Use in 2011

The battery could power zero-emissions homes
By Clay Dillow Posted 24.12.2020 at 5:54 am 1 Comment

Bringing power storage to the people, Panasonic will bring a home-use lithium-ion storage cell to market in fiscal 2011, making it possible for homes to store a week's worth of electricity for later use. Panasonic -- along with the recently acquired Sanyo -- have already test-manufactured such a battery, which could allow for more widespread deployment of eco-friendly but inconsistent modes of power generation.

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The First Hybrid Sport Boat Cruises With More Peace, Less Pollution

By Laura Aaronson Posted 13.09.2020 at 8:51 am 0 Comments

Boaters like spray and sun in their face, not exhaust. The first hybrid sport boat, courtesy of a co-designer of the Aptera electric car, delivers cleaner thrills.

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Easy Rider: The Brammo Enertia

Electric motorcycle friendlier to rider and environment
By Matthew Cokeley Posted 08.08.2020 at 6:41 am 0 Comments

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Harley riders might have a hard time getting used to the first street-legal electric motorcycle to hit stores. It sounds more like a Prius than an exhaust-spewing hog—that is, silent. But the Brammo Enertia is meant for commuters, not Hell’s Angels. The same electronics that make it whisper-quiet also make it simpler for beginners to ride.

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Another League Under the Sea: Tomorrow's Research Subs Open Earth's Final Frontier

Armed with better batteries and stronger materials, new submersibles aim to go deeper than ever before and open up the whole of the unexplored ocean to human eyes
By Abe Streep Posted 06.08.2020 at 3:46 am 0 Comments

Flying Low: The Deep Flight II sub uses stubby wings that propel it down like an airplane goes up.  Nick Kaloterakis
By liberal estimates, we’ve explored about 5 percent of the seas, and nearly all of that in the first 1,000 feet. That’s the familiar blue part, penetrated by sunlight, home to the colorful reefs and just about every fish you’ve ever seen. Beyond that is the deep—a pitch-black region that stretches down to roughly 35,800 feet, the bottom of the Marianas Trench. Nearly all the major oceanographic finds made in that region—hydrothermal vents and the rare life-forms that thrive in the extreme temperatures there, sponges that can treat tumors, thousands of new species, the Titanic—have occurred above 15,000 feet, the lower limit of the world’s handful of manned submersibles for most of the past 50 years.

Now engineers want to unlock the rest of the sea with a new fleet of manned submersibles. And they don’t have to go to the very bottom to do it. In fact, only about 2 percent of the seafloor lies below 20,000 feet, in deep, muddy trenches. If we extend our current reach just 5,000 feet—another mile—it will open about 98 percent of the world’s oceans to scientific eyes.

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Build It: The Information Box

Satisfy your data craving with a stylish DIY display that scrolls scores, news, weather and anything else that your computer can feed it
By Dave Prochnow Posted 08.12.2020 at 3:47 am 12 Comments


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Electrics hit the Drag Strip

By Gregory Mone Posted 31.07.2020 at 4:48 am 0 Comments

A lucky and wealthy few drivers will soon be speeding around town in Tesla Roadsters, but fast electric vehicles are also tearing up amateur racetracks across the country. This past weekend, a rider pushed a lithium-ion-battery-powered motorcycle to 156 mph at the Portland International Raceway in Oregon.

The bike, known as the KillaCycle, cranks out 350 horsepower, and squeezes all that juice out of 990 laptop-like batteries made by the power pros at A123 Systems. The KillaCycle gets from 0 to 60 in just under a second. In other words, it's already catching up to the quickest drag motorcycles, which do it in about 0.7 seconds.

Yet this could just be the start. One battery expert even thinks that electrics could challenge the toughest drag-racing records within five years.—Gregory Mone

Via AP

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Best of Comdex

The show´s sagging with the PC industry, but innovation lives. Here are our picks for best in show.
Posted 08.01.2020 at 10:05 am 0 Comments

A poor economy and a stagnant industry conspired to make last November´s Comdex, the largest U.S.-based computer trade show, a shadow of its former self. But even in this repressive environment, and with Las Vegas as the backdrop, sparks of innovation flew. They just weren´t sparks of computer innovation, at least not in the traditional sense. Here are our picks for best in show.

COOLEST GADGET:
The $299 Fossil Wrist PDA (left, top), a full Palm OS PDA watch.

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