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A French company entitled Luxury-Sea is using a new green technology to power its high-class MIG 675 boats that display a minimal impact on the environment.
The best thing about the new toys, besides their similarities with a five-star hotel, is that they rely on ocean water to power their engines, Pure Energy Syst... |
21 December 2011
09:22 GMT |
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The PlayStation 3 benefited from appearing one year after the Xbox 360, at least according to some game developers, who believe the Sony console can still support more impressive graphics than the Microsoft device.Current generation consoles are showing their age in front of platforms like the PC, but at least when i... |
8 November 2011
10:31 GMT |
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Current-generation consoles, like the PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360, are lagging behind the PC, as the devices are getting old and plenty of gamers, as well as developers and publishers, want more powerful platforms to bring better experiences, at least according to OnLive boss Steve Perlman.
Current-generation consol... |
8 July 2011
15:51 GMT |
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In an interesting new study, experts were able to determine that people who accede to power tend to change, and start playing a part that has been laid out by others before them. They suddenly begin to smile less, speak louder than usual, and interrupt others all the time. There seems to be a connection in the minds ... |
23 May 2011
10:46 GMT |
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When speaking of tablets, one's mind immediately travels to the media slate, that sort of device that delivers multimedia and entertainment, but Intel and Capgemini seem to be planning some different use for the form factor.Energy efficiency is an aspect of technology that has come to be highly valued, especial... |
1 February 2011
09:47 GMT |
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Working on a laptop means portability first of all. The line is drawn when it comes to AC because any battery has limited working capabilities. If you want to see how much juice is left and get notifications for low levels, Battery4Life is for you.
Whether at home, at the office or on the road, if you have your po... |
15 January 2011
11:11 GMT |
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We can't really say that the wireless charging solutions currently arriving on the market really involve absolutely no wires (after all, most of them require a charging pad connected to a power socket), but the people over at PREE Corporation (a company affiliated to GoSolarUSA) seem to have come up with a very ... |
23 November 2010
05:12 GMT |
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Investigations conducted over the past few years have sought to determine how people go about taking into account risk when making decisions. This may be simple for single people, but all dynamics change inside couples, where important decisions are taken together. In most healthy relationships, men and women discuss... |
29 October 2010
20:01 GMT |
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A new research has focused on the way people spend money, when they buy things for themselves and when they do it for others, and also on the causes of this behavior.We live in a consumerist society so we all have a tendency of buying more things that we need, but the authors of the study wandered what made people sp... |
19 October 2010
05:11 GMT |
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Any Mac owner should know what to do if his/her computer refuses to turn on. Whenever you face such a situation you don’t have to give up and take your Mac to the nearest Apple Store immediately because there a number of steps that you can take to prevent yourself being embarassed. Although some tend to let ot... |
28 September 2010
07:11 GMT |
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According to a new scientific investigation, it would appear that people who have power, of any kind, tend to be more optimistic than their peers. But, while optimism was shown to be linked with a better state of the immune system, this comes with a disadvantage as well. The team behind the new study says that these ... |
27 March 2010
08:02 GMT |
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In a new scientific study, it is revealed that people tend to rate a person's attractiveness and power levels based on the place their images occupy on a computer screen. This is especially true for women looking at men and vice-versa, researchers say, adding that these peculiar results merit more study. Details... |
27 January 2010
06:45 GMT |
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Apple has reportedly released a new Power Adapter model for iPhone and iPod owners in Europe. The powering accessory is slimmer than the model currently employed by customers worldwide. According to TUAW, whose readers made the discovery, the new adapter supports pretty much all of Apple’s iPods and iPhones, in... |
21 January 2010
09:46 GMT |
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Psychologists have wondered for a long time how it is that people have the tendency to not practice what they preach. As evidenced by countless new studies, those in a position of power, and who claim a solid moral background, tend to slip up the most, and the hardest. This is clear in the case of politicians, econom... |
30 December 2009
05:56 GMT |
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It seems that Panasonic is bent on creating a working energy storage battery meant to complement the power generation capabilities of solar batteries. The company will achieve this thanks to the technological know-how recently gained from the acquisition of Sanyo. The battery will supposedly enable Japanese and other... |
28 December 2009
05:18 GMT |
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By announcing the “Green my Apple" campaign earlier this year, Apple responded to accusations brought by Greenpeace that the company still wasn’t meeting standards imposed by the organization. As an answer, the Mac maker not only introduced its new initiative, but also launched greener products, including... |
30 November 2009
04:46 GMT |
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QuickerTek has announced the MacBook Battery and Charger Lite for owners of an Apple MacBook. Customers will gain up to five hours of additional battery power, according to the company, whose offerings include all kinds of battery chargers for MacBooks, iPhone and iPod touch. “It's [sic.] small size is d... |
8 July 2009
08:56 GMT |
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A MacBook Pro user writing over at MacForums claims his laptop caught fire during an over-night backup session. Apple instructs Mac users to leave their notebooks running with the MagSafe adapter plugged in while long backup sessions take place. The user reveals this is actually the third MagSafe adapter his MBP has ... |
21 May 2009
06:02 GMT |
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In order to help reduce the carbon footprint associated with computers worldwide, Google co-founded the Climate Savers Computing Initiative (CSCI) to teach and educate users on how to build a “greener” future. How? By using power management tools on their personal computers and buying more efficient machi... |
10 March 2009
08:25 GMT |
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Global warming, the term that has become so worrying as of late, represents an obvious imbalance between the energy flow and the energy generation in the global climate, which is a result of humans' greenhouse gas emissions and increased releases of heat caused by the energy usage process. The latter concept has... |
8 December 2008
17:51 GMT |
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You must be thinking that the poor lander has been pronounced dead several times now and you're right to some extent. The difference is that, this time, it's for good. Although hopes for any sign of communication with the brave lander were extremely low, NASA technicians still made a few more attempts to li... |
2 December 2008
04:53 GMT |
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The history and evolution of warfare has been linked to humans throughout our existence, ever since the chief of some tribe decided he wanted the territory and possessions of another tribe. Since then, records have been peppered with accounts of violent, large-scaled conflicts, involving tribesmen, mercenaries, and, ... |
13 November 2008
13:21 GMT |
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The next-gen console war has been going on for quite some time now, and the clear winner in terms of sales and market share is the Nintendo Wii. However, a fierce battle is being also waged for the second place between two other companies, Microsoft with the Xbox 360 and Sony with its PlayStation 3.The stakes are hig... |
4 November 2008
10:01 GMT |
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Researchers from MIT discovered that trees carry a small amount of electrical power, and they founded a company which would harness it and use it as a source of power.Through their newly-founded Voltree company, the scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are trying to tap on tree energy and use it ... |
2 October 2008
03:58 GMT |
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Although other sources may prove more effective in the long run, of all the natural energy providers out there wind is always the closest and the easiest one to comprehend. More and more people build their own wind-fueled energy mini-stations at home, which is compared to having your own car instead of relying on pub... |
26 September 2008
03:51 GMT |
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Whenever you leave your home for a business trip, a laptop (or notebook) is a mandatory accessory. However, most users also pack other devices as well, such as a portable MP3 player, portable printer or projector, or any other accessory that's powered via USB. So, how to accommodate all of these things when you&... |
9 July 2008
04:21 GMT |
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The summer is here, the weather is getting hotter and you've already had to switch on the A/C - however, with the recent surge of all prices including electricity and... well, everything else, saving energy has become not so much a trend, as a must for most of us. And given that we're headed for a very hot ... |
5 June 2008
05:41 GMT |
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Wireless power transmission was first demonstrated as a viable way to transmit electric energy over long distances between electric and electronic devices by Nicola Tesla during the early 1900s at the Colorado Springs experiment station, when he remotely powered a set of lights in the ground. Tesla's idea was in... |
20 May 2008
06:24 GMT |
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Radial engines became widely popular during the World War II and have been mostly used to power the propellers of airplanes such as the B-25 and the B-17 bombers, or even commercial airplanes like the DC-3. Basically, a radial engine is similar to gasoline internal combustion engines, only that the pistons are dispos... |
16 May 2008
08:36 GMT |
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Yesterday MacBook owners were (hopefully) glad to hear that someone managed to roll out an external cooler for their laptops, helping reduce heat to improve system performance and comfortability. Today, the guys at Quickertek have something for MacBook Air owners, too: a MacBook Air External Battery which, according ... |
14 May 2008
05:19 GMT |
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Why does money make one feel powerful? The answer to this question can be found in that profit and power have the same brain nucleus: the striatum, that is already associated with reward. These are the results of brain-scanning researches, published in the journal Neuron, for the first time looking for a connection m... |
29 April 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Gonorrhea, together with syphilis and HIV, make a "love triangle" of the most famous sexually transmitted diseases. Indeed, gonorrhea, caused by the Neisseria gonorhoeae bacterium, affects 62 million people, aged mainly 15 to 29, are represents world's second most widespread STDs after the infection with Chlamyd... |
15 April 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Biologically, men are designed to be more active sexually, because of the higher quantity of testosterone in their bodies. And except some remote cultures, like in Tibet or Southern India, where polyandry (a woman can have several husbands) is practiced, this does happen. But the annual Durex Sexual Wellbeing Global ... |
8 March 2008
05:21 GMT |
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Check this! Researchers over at Georgia Institute of Technology say that T-shirts with built-in nanotechnology may soon power up your mp3 player. Imagine not depending on power sockets at home or at work to power up your iPod! As it always goes, a mechanical process converts into energy, and this time it's the m... |
15 February 2008
07:11 GMT |
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Is your boss a butt-head? In this case, don't try to change this, at least as long as he/she feels powerful, as revealed by a new research published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. "Powerful people have confidence in what they are thinking. Whether their thoughts are positive or negative tow... |
15 February 2008
06:11 GMT |
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Everyone on the web has been both trash-talking and praising the MacBook Air for its features and what it stands for. The Air's battery makes up for a lot of the negative aspects surrounding it, such as the fact that Air owners need to have it sent in for a replacement, and that it doesn't last half as long... |
7 February 2008
06:36 GMT |
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One of the most unsatisfying aspects concerning the MacBook Air is, without a doubt, the lack of a user-replaceable battery. Of course, that can change, since AppleInsider claims that you don't need any special tools (or knowledge) to do the swapping yourself.More than that, it can be done in a matter of minutes... |
24 January 2008
09:06 GMT |
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For millennia, people had been making ships of wood. Than, around 1790, the first iron ship was made. People thought iron would sink, as it is denser than the wood. But the floating capacity depends on the ratio between weight and volume. No matter the weight of a ship, it will float if its volume is large enough. A ... |
23 January 2008
08:24 GMT |
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Now we know why even Ronaldinho or Shaq can miss easy shots: spontaneous fluctuations of brain's electrical activity are to blame. A team at Washington University, in Missouri, US, discovered that fluctuations in the brain activity made subjects to subconsciously exert a little less physical power when pushing a... |
10 October 2007
05:09 GMT |
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OCZ Technology Group just announced the launch of a new power supply unit, the OCZ Technology Group, which is now readily available from the online store PC Power & Cooling. The new power supply unit is aimed at providing users with a very strong and durable solution for those power users that require industrial grad... |
3 October 2007
06:23 GMT |
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High quality, high output power supply units sell very well these days as more and more computer users are going for extreme hardware setups that need a lot of power in order to operate in a stable manner. As the demand for more customized and more complex power supply units rises, companies like Silverstone are dete... |
26 September 2007
04:09 GMT |
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HIPER is one of the computer hardware companies that's specialized in power supply units with high efficiency ratings and multiple options and protection systems. As the HIPER built PSUs, the shorthand for power supply units, are aimed at the high end computer systems with a lot of energy requirements, the compa... |
21 August 2007
11:19 GMT |
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In a reality flooded by Harry Potter and science fiction movies, levitation has turned into a fact. The same physicists that showed last year that invisibility cloaks are feasible, now have turned to levitation. The team at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, has made an 'incredible levitation effects' ... |
20 August 2007
14:06 GMT |
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A research team from the German Fraunhofer Institute developed an electronic system that is capable of working with no apparent power source apart from the energy generated by the human body. This kind of power generating system could have a lot of applications in the mobile computing industry alone, where battery li... |
20 August 2007
11:34 GMT |
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The Universal Serial Bus or USB for short is a very popular port today as there are maybe a million computer hardware parts that connect to the host system using it. Among those parts, or better said peripherals, there are mice, keyboards, external storage devices, webcams flash memory sticks and so on. The USB port ... |
18 August 2007
06:33 GMT |
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As the date for the release of the world's first native quad core processing unit approaches, a number of less than pleasant details surface. As the official launch date is less than a month away, it looks quite improbable that out of the box fixes that do not need the user's interventions for those problem... |
16 August 2007
11:13 GMT |
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Among the most important energy consumers in the whole IT industry, the data center has a very special and near the top place, their projected energy consumption being said to double until 2011. So a new set of specifications and guidelines have been drawn up in an attempt to minimize energy waste and electricity bil... |
11 August 2007
06:39 GMT |
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As the world takes heed of the global warnings more and more industries are turning around searching for additional technologies that could boost energy savings and minimize power consumption while maintaining a decent level of efficiency. One such technology, almost forgotten, that has now a new field day is Zigbee,... |
10 August 2007
10:08 GMT |
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The Green Grid is an association of several high-tech companies, most of which are active in the computer hardware manufacturing segment, that was created as a group that could lay the base for industry wide accepted practices, metrics and technologies that should help improve data center energy efficiency.Since its ... |
10 August 2007
05:36 GMT |
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Most hardware manufacturers and vendors, from processors to hard disk drives manufacturers, are claiming that their products are going green, which means better energy efficiency while keeping performance at a high level. While this may very well be the truth, the high power to performance ratios are not enough to st... |
6 August 2007
05:42 GMT |
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