How Long Should You Spend on Making Tasks More Efficient?
These days everyone wants you to hack your life in order to make your day-to-day existence more efficient. But there…
17 Ways You’re Wasting Money on Winter Heating and Lighting
Homeowners in northern states have already had to turn on their furnaces and boilers this fall. And a lot of them are…
Science reveals the most efficient way to get on an airplane
Stand-up comedians everywhere mourn as it seems they might be about to lose another bit about plane travel. Testing has…
Student's CPU Patent Could Save Your Mobile Battery's Ass in the Future
Sometimes your computer's CPU uses a lot of electricity—like when you're encoding an HD video, or playing a game.…
Halve Meeting Times With the Presentation-Sharing and Voting iPad App 'Meeting Mngr Pro'
Oh, you work in an office where everyone has an iPad? Good for you. Here's how to spend less time in meetings and more…
An Energy Monitoring Brain Makes This Building the World's First Zero Carbon Convention Center
It's not often (ever?) that a convention center is anything worth being excited about, but Ireland's new Convention…
IBM's New Processors Go Comatose
IBM's adding a new lower-low-power option to future Power processors that's one step beyond its current nap, sleep and…
Ultra Efficient Windows Turning Houses Into Death Rays
Remember how annoying it was when your neighbor blasted Katy Perry at 3 a.m.? Now just imagine if his windows were…
How to Chart Your Every Procrastination
Sure, the Sidetrack table turns your home into a near-police state, with monitors in every room. But how else are you…
Remainders - Stuff We Didn't Post (and Why)
Samsung's Bada Mobile OS to Launch in Early 2010...Google Talk Knows When You're on Android, and Likes It...California…
Sharp Triple Layer Solar Cell Sets New Efficiency Record
The gauntlet has been thrown down yet again in the solar cell efficiency arms race. This time Sharp comes up with a…
Google Claims Most Efficient Data Centers Ever
Responding to criticism for its secrecy over its data centers, Google has lifted the veil a little on how much energy…
Utah Researchers Throw Cold Water On Rosy OLED Efficiency Rates
The promise of an organic light emitting diode (OLED) is that it will eventually become a super-efficient, low-cost…
Researchers Squeeze 60% More Light Out of OLEDs With Tiny Lenses
Optics junkies at the University of Michigan have found a way to greatly boost the efficiency of OLEDs to produce 60%…
Osram Pushes White LEDS to World-Record Brightness, Super Efficiency
It's an interesting week in the world of LEDs: on the weekend we heard about ultra-cheap ones, and today Osram (yes,…
AeroCam Turbine First to be Blowin' in the Wind for Under $1 Per Watt
The "$1 per Watt" barrier may not sound as impressive as the sound barrier, but this next-gen wind turbine is the…
Rough Nano-Wires Hold the Secret to Efficient Heat to Electricity Conversion
The latest edition of Nature magazine details a new method scientists have derived for converting heat energy into…
X-Keys Give You Shortcut Buttons on Your Monitor
X-Keys are a strip of shortcut buttons that you stick on your monitor and assign macros to using software, allowing you…
Stormblade Turbine is More Efficient, Quietly Neighbor-Friendly
Nobody wants a wind turbine in their backyard, because the things are noisy and kill birds. But now inventors at…