Articles on Power

Eco-friendly PS3 Slim runs on half the power of the PS3 - Aug 28, 2009

Crave Sony heralded the new PlayStation 3 Slim as more energy efficient than previous models, but that's an easy feat considering the older PS3 "Fat" models were some of the most ... Read story »

PS3's standby and off modes, (virtually) separated at birth - Jun 12, 2009

Crave As useful as information found on the Internet can be, at times, it's also frustratingly myopic, resulting in moments when you have to take matters into your own hands. Recently, my ... Read story »

NEC announces new energy-efficient monitors - Oct 2, 2009

Crave Energy-efficient computer monitors are seemingly the new black. With each new press release vendors never fail to mention how much power their products use, or more specifically, don't use. Nothing ... Read story »

Darth Vader succumbs to Hello Kitty power - Aug 13, 2009

Crave The horror, oh the horror. Pink Gundams. Hello Kitty Imperial Stormtroopers. What next? How about Darth Vader in pinkish white with a Hello Kitty badge? One can almost hear the ... Read story »

OLED chair lights up when you rock - Oct 24, 2009

Crave A rocking chair with an integrated OLED lamp would in and of itself be cool enough to feature here on Crave, but the Murakami Chair is different. The power to ... Read story »

Outlet Wall solves all your power needs - Jun 28, 2009

Crave The Outlet Wall is a great idea. It actually looks good and is totally an exercise in function meeting fashion. If I ever get around to remodeling my place I ... Read story »

Check out your electrical consumption with this power strip - Apr 29, 2008

Crave Ever wondered how much power is being consumed by your LCD TV or desktop PC? Well, now you can find out exactly how much electricity your appliances at home are drawing ... Read story »

Juice up your laptop, literally - Oct 21, 2008

Crave Traditional chargers may soon go the way of modem ports as fuel cell batteries become a reality. Where once such technology resided in huge power cells which were double the ... Read story »

Onzo home electricity monitoring kit - Apr 15, 2009

Crave The Onzo on a refrigerator. Monitoring energy use seems to be catching on in popularity these days, given the trend of conserving electricity to benefit the environment. We recently had a ... Read story »

First Solar and Sempra plan thin-film solar plant - Jul 29, 2008

Crave First Solar is teaming up with Sempra Generation to build in the Nevada desert what could become North America's largest thin-film photovoltaic plant. The 10-megawatt project would be located 40 miles ... Read story »

Solar power for toxic waste sites? - Oct 6, 2008

Crave Interactive EPA maps for Google Earth expand on the data shown here. The agency says 850,000 acres it has cleaned up, among 15 million contaminated acres total, are exceptional destinations for ... Read story »

CES 2009 Report, part 3--wireless charging and pico projectors - Jan 27, 2009

Blogs I think most of CES 2009 visitors became interested in wireless charging technology after seeing Powermat's solution. Wireless charging technology isn't a new concept to us. It was developed a few ... Read story »

One-handed unplugging - Dec 24, 2007

Crave Here's a clever idea from Korean designer Yoo-Kyung Shin. This power strip has levers on each power outlet to facilitate unplugging. Usually, when we remove plugs from power strips, holding it ... Read story »

Power strip may keep fire marshal away - Feb 14, 2008

Crave OK, so a power strip might not seem very crushworthy, but how many of us have cursed conventional versions over not providing adequate space for a multitude of bricks? In fact, ... Read story »

Hotswapping notebook batteries - Feb 6, 2008

Crave We are not sure what will happen to this technology when hydrogen fuel cells hit portables, but for now this is one fantastic concept which addresses a key issue of using ... Read story »

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