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more about #electricity more comments → SkipErnst: The rope appears to be going directly into that poor hamster's ... uh ... let's just call it a design fail, shall we? more » SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!!: Thats Animal Decal cruelty. more » MaQ: An idea: If there was a system of magnets, beneath cars, and a system of inductors embedded in the roads, just by vehicles driving around, as they d... more » Hiphopopotamus: Take that, Earth! more » icy_one: I think that Oxford, Ohio has a similar system, coils under the road to heat the streets in the winter. more » DorkRawk: Seriously? Who gives the University of Houston money for research in snow removal? I used to live just outside Houston. Do you know how we got rid ... more » FriarNurgle: Glad I won't spin out on the ice when I have to swerve to avoid all the cute furry animals and not so cute but just as furry homeless bums sleeping on... more » Hello Mister Walrus: What about Mr. Plow? Mr. Plow - that's his name. That name again is Mr. Plow. more » Mayor McRib: Ditch the electricity and go with energy obtained from landfill waste, or better yet, geothermal heat. more » Curves: I cant see this in wide spread use, but there are certain high accident/risk areas that this might be practical, dispite energy consumption. (Do you ... more » asavitzk: FYI, at 5PM EST this unit will be on Amazon's Black Friday deals page. more » triggerx: So the original Kill-A-Watt's purpose was to help you save electricity, and the new one was designed to help you use more electricity (kill more watts... more » whootowl: I love my Kill-A-Watt. The Earth loves my Kill-A-Watt. Just today, I discovered my bloody PC has been consume 160 Watts while in SLEEP MODE. It's t... more » Kaiser-Machead: I can't wait until Optimum Online sends mechanical spiders to fix our cable boxes and repair lines outside the buildings. more » tharden33: This is just the prototype. The final version will look like an anime character that repairs power lines with samurai swords and odd creatures. #power... more » -
#decals
Decals Show You The Hamster Powering Your Wall Sockets and Toilets
These decals serve as little reminders to switch off, and consider just how much energy you're consuming. I'm sure we could all do with some of these for our wall outlets. More » -
#snow
Self-Heating Roads Clear Snow With Ease
Like a big, black, bitumen electric blanket, "self-heating" roads are being worked on at the University of Houston, Texas, which will hopefully eliminate the need for salting trucks or ploughs during heavy snowstorms in the US. More » -
#killawatt
Kill-A-Watt's Updated Graphical Version Has Programmable Timer
The original Kill-a-Watt was a barebones, if efficient, way of monitoring how much energy an appliance used. But what if you want more features? Like a timer or programming. Here it is. More » -
#robots
Say Hello to Your New Local Power Guy
Helmeted workers in cherrypickers, or precariously tethered to a high voltage lines, are as much a part of our power infrastructure's aesthetic as towers and transformers. In the next few years, these iconic silhouettes will become a little more... mechanical. More » -
#outlets
Rotating Outlet Solves the International Outlet Smorgasbord
We know that every country has its own plug, and that isn't going to change anytime soon. But this spinning outlet is a pretty elegant solution to that problem. More » -
#gizexplains
Giz Explains: Why Every Country Has a Different F#$%ing Plug
Ok, maybe not every country, but with at least 12 different sockets in widespread use it sure as hell feels like it to anyone who's ever traveled. So why in the world, literally, are there so many? Funny story! More » -
#boats
The 27-Foot Nimbus E-Power Is The World's First Commercially Available Electric Boat
Our quest for green energy has taken to the high seas with the Nimbus E-Power. Despite being fueled by electricity, it manages a respectable top speed of 27 knots and a range of 20 nautical miles on a 4-hour charge. More » -
#books
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Persistence, Jury-Rigging, and Ingenuity Against All Odds
We seldom post about books at Gizmodo, but if this story of a self-taught Malawian boy using junkyard parts to build windmills and bring life-changing electricity to his village doesn't make you misty-eyed, then you must be one cold-hearted bastard. More » -
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#science
So, This Is What Those High Voltage Danger Signs Mean
Remember kids, never plug your head in a high voltage capacitor. On the other side, watermelons are fine and fun. More » -
#pewpew
This Is What 400,000 Volts Looks Like Applied to Film
Hiroshi Sugimoto applies electrical charges to film using a 400,000-volt Van De Graaff generator, and the results are downright stunning. More » -
#concepts
Clock Celebrates Your Excessive Energy Use on the Hour
While the Energy Aware Clock ticks away the hours of your day, it's also graphing your power usage patterns in electric blue. More » -
#energy
Super-Tough Solar Panels Could Make Every Road Into a Power Plant
Roads do two things well: Carry cars, and soak up sun. What if, instead of just getting really hot, roads could generate electricity with that sunlight? That's exactly what Solar Roadways—and now, the Department of Energy—has in mind. More » -
#imagecache
This Is Why They Make Travel Adapters
Future Darwin Award nominee or desperate genius? Maybe both. But shoving things into what looks like a UK 220V outlet is probably not going to end well. Just ask the guy in this retro UK electrical hazards PSA: More » -
#shopping
Energy Star Guidelines Lag Behind World in Clarity and Purpose
In the US, we're supposed to be the worldwide masters of consumerism. But as pointed out by Pop Mech, our Energy Star guidelines are not just inaccurate, they fail to compare one product to any other product. There's no context. More » -
#science
Happy Birthday, Nikola Tesla!
Nikola Tesla, the granddaddy of electricity, was born on this day way back in 1856. If only he were alive to see what kind of goofy crap we were doing with his namesake coils! More » -
#imagecache
Photography Through Electrocution
Robert Buelteman takes electrifying photographs, but he doesn't even use a camera. Instead, he places flowers directly onto film and shocks them with 80,000 volts. More » -
#design
Node Power Outlet Makes Power Strips Almost Useless
Rob at Boing Boing Gadgets thinks that Node—a power outlet that can accept several cables safely—may be the power outlet of tomorrow. I completely agree with him. More » -
#tesla
Recreating Tesla's Wireless Power Experiments
If you have a thing for Tesla coils (and who doesn't really) you will be interested in this experiment/history lesson about wireless power put on by Omega Recoil at this year's Maker Faire. More » -
#google
Google PowerMeter Begins Rollout, Gives You One More Metric To Obsess Over
Google PowerMeter, an online widget that monitors your home's power usage in real time, is one of those ideas that really should've caught on by now. Well, it's starting to! More »
