Solar panels shaped like tiny leaves

It seems true that the future of technological innovations rest over nanotechnology, but these tiny GROW solar panels by SMIT are remarkable. SMIT has designed it as a clean energy product and GROW is the patent pending hybrid solar and wind device. Inspired by the shape of leaves, these all panels together can perform better than their biological counterparts can, it is a solar panel but also it can capture energy from the wind and the fluttering of these solar leaves generates power. GROW is a modular and lightweight system which can be attached to any kind of building surface.
SMIT said, "We are exploring possibilities of using a leasing/take-back system for GROW so that we as the producers are ultimately responsible for its end-life and recycling."

Clothes become power house

A nanotech research team reveals its latest invention, which can make your clothes into a powerhouse. By the help of some nanowires embedded in your clothes, your outfit can generate enough power to light up your mp3 player or your cell phone or any other gadget, by just walking or dancing around.
Professor Zhong Lin Wang and team of the Georgia Institute of Technology coated Kevlar strands with zinc oxide nanowires, protecting the bushy wires with a polymer and adding gold to other fibers to act as a conductor. The piezoelectric power-generating action comes when the nanowires bend as two fibers rub together, translating bending of the material into electricity, which flows along the gold fibers.
Professor Wang says "across several square feet of fabric the nanowire fibers can generate power adding up to tens of Milliwatts, which is not a huge amount, but is certainly enough for a dribble top-up charge for your portable devices". Well the idea sounds perfect for medical and military use, but it is clearly an invention in its infancy as Wang notes, "What we've done is demonstrate the principle and the fundamental mechanism." The only flaw until now is that the nanowires are not wash proof and washing the clothes is not possible without damaging them.

Mini Nuclear reactor for home

Well not too many people get the option of owning their own power house, and also as the power prices are striking on almost everywhere around the globe, so having some alternate will be awesome. But would you like to have a nuclear reactor in your home, i don't know about you but i may love to have one and besides the name of the company who is going to offer this is Toshiba, a respected brand name.
Toshiba call its "Micro Nuclear Reactor", this is in dimension of 20 feet by 6 feet, almost a 100 times smaller than your normal power plant sized variety. Next Energy News stated that the 200 kilowatt reactor is designed to be fail-safe, totally automatic and never gets overheated. The whole process of self sustaining can last for upto 40 years producing the electricity for as low as 5 cents a kilowatt.
The Toshiba is going to implement its first reactor in Japan any time in next year, and if everything goes well then people living in US will get to use them by 2009.
So this maybe the perfect solution for power cuts and it may really even change the world in near future. Then say good bye to your power cuts.

Duracell power for Laptops

If you’re anything like me, you tend to carry around a multitude of gadgets. Naturally, when any of these goes dead while I’m away from an outlet, I tend to go into a panic. I try my best to keep them all charged up, but sometimes you just can’t help it. That’s why it’s handy to have some backup power for your gadgets.

Duracell has recently launched their PowerSource Mobile 100 unit which promises to provide more than a little extra juice to your portable devices. It features two USB ports and a single AC outlet which will let you power just about anything. This little guy isn’t like some other solutions that only powers your cell phone for an hour or so. This particular gadget will power a laptop for up to two hours, a cell phone for 18 hours (that’s talk time) or an MP3 player for up to 96 hours of play time.

Obviously, not all devices are created equally, so you’ll have to take those times with a grain of salt. One thing is for sure though, you’ll get plenty of juice out of this guy. It does however come with a heafty price tag. While it will set you back $140, it will definitely show its worth the first time your laptop dies on the road.