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Students build Curio House that runs entirely on solar power

Crave The Boston Architecture School and Tufts University are building the Curio House, a home that's designed to run entirely from solar energy. To build a home powered entirely by the sun, ... Read story »

The final frontier: Solar power from space

Crave Pacific Gas & Electric is going to great lengths--all the way to space--in its quest for renewable energy. The California utility recently said it will seek approval from regulators to purchase ... Read story »

Harnessing brainwaves with solar power

Crave With all the development of alternative energy today, it was bound to come to this: Introducing solar-powered brainwaves. Well, not exactly. But this electroencephalogram device does use sunlight as well as ... Read story »

Solar-powered air conditioner

Crave Anything that runs off solar power and keeps our planet alive another day, it gets our vote. Increased use of air conditioners has been lamblasted for producing more greenhouse gas. SolCool's ... Read story »

Solar-powered Bluetooth headset offers infinite standby time

Crave Here's another Bluetooth headset that truly does away with the cables. The SolarVoice 908 which weights 13.5g features noise reduction for improved audio clarity, Bluetooth stereo for streaming music, and ... Read story »

Solar cells for phones still not fully feasible

Crave Sharp's Solar Phone SH002 launched in June in Japan. Solar or photovoltaic (PV) technology in mobile computing devices is still impeded by performance and price issues, and is not likely ... Read story »

Popular Mechanics' breakthrough award

Crave On Thursday, Popular Mechanics magazine will unveil its 2009 Breakthrough awards. Included on the list is a series of innovators, as well as a number of products, including this lawn mower, ... Read story »

Photos: Popular Mechanics' 2009 Breakthrough Award winners

Features From wind turbines suitable for the home to bacteria-powered batteries, the magazine's 5th annual awards is chock full of innovations that could change products and technology forever.  Read story »

Hello Kitty is harnessing solar power

Crave The Sanrio Empire may have seemed unusually subdued of late, but its campaign for world domination is still very much in high gear. In fact, the threat is more sever than ... Read story »

As long as there's sun, you can talk

Crave For all the talk about solar-powered phones this year, there still aren't any that have taken the mass market by storm, or even a light breeze. Until one does come along, ... Read story »

Chromasun looking to make solar air conditioners

Crave Packing heat: a prototype of a solar collector designed to fuel industrial chillers. Fledgling company Chromasun plans to put the sun's heat to work cooling commercial buildings. Founder Peter Le ... Read story »

Scosche releases SolChat solar-powered Bluetooth speakerphone

Crave The front and back (insert picture) of the SolChat. Hot on the heels of announcing that it would be making accessories for the third-generation shuffle, Scosche has "gone green" with ... Read story »

When solar panels become affordable for all

Blogs Our sun is undoubtedly an incredibly powerful star. Apparently, it supplies enough energy to earth in 1 hour to provide all of our energy needs for an entire year! Yet, most ... Read story »

ZTE debuts solar-powered phone

Crave The Coral-200-Solar gets its power from above. Samsung and LG weren't the only companies showing solar-powered cell phones at the GSMA Mobile World Congress. On Wednesday, Chinese manufacturer ZTE launched ... Read story »

Solar sunglasses harness rays for gadget power

Crave Sunglasses, check. iPod, check. Charger, check. Actually, nix that last one. A new pair of solar-powered shades that double as a gadget charger mean one less item to toss in ... Read story »

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