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Future of Energy: Clean, Renewable, Transmittable, Free

November 23, 2011November 23, 2011 Tarandeep Singh

This could be the biggest Invention in the field of Energy in this decade, as we continue the struggle to make Energy clean and renewable. For decades, we’ve been trying to harness and convert energy from one form to another in hope of meeting our day-to-day power requirements. In winters, we use electricity to keep our home warm and cool in summers. Smarter Energystar homes improve this model but they still don’t remove the need for Power plants. NanoHoldings would change our lifes forever. The Future of Energy is all…

Solar Windows Generate Electricity, reduce Heat

April 5, 2011April 5, 2011 Tarandeep Singh

We all have been hearing about solar windows that would power our future homes. The good news is its here and it works. Pythagoras Solar has come up with new Glass windows that fit into your apartments, offices and generate electricity throughout the day. In addition they can be used to control the light and heat entering the rooms. The company is calling it the industry’s “first energy efficient, transparent and high power-density photovoltaic glass unit”. The new product could show up in curtain walls, skylights or windows. It both…

Worlds Smallest Petrol Engine fits your watch, runs for years

February 28, 2011February 28, 2011 Tarandeep Singh

If you thought batteries are greener Technology for tomorrow, let us raise the curtain over a Internal combustion engine that runs on Petrol and is more efficient that any other electrical equivalent. Scientists have built the world’s smallest petrol engine that is tiny enough to power a Watch. The mini-combustion engine can run for two years on a single dose of a light fuel. To give you an estimate of the power, it produces 700 times more energy than a conventional battery despite having a size less than a centimetre…

Google Unveils PowerMeter API for Smarter Home Appliances

March 3, 2010March 3, 2010 Tarandeep Singh

Google’s Power, Energy initiatives are taking shape. Today, Google announces Google PowerMeter API on code.google.com, for developers to integrate various products with Google PowerMeter. PowerMeter provides a great interface to monitor, track, analyze, and optimize power usage. Now manufacturers can integrate various appliances to enable advanced Energy monitoring. Google PowerMeter is a software application being was developed to help consumers track their home electricity usage. The development of the software is part of an effort by Google to invest in Green and Renewable energy initiatives The API will make “energy…

Google Energy: Expect Cheaper Electricity

February 21, 2010February 21, 2010 Tarandeep Singh

So you thought Google is bounded by limits set by internet? Ownership of new rights could push Google towards becoming a Energy provider in future. In December, Google took steps to form Google Energy, a subsidiary formed with sole purpose of buying and selling electricity in bulk. In January, the company filed a request, and yesterday Google Energy has been granted an order by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission(FERC) to buy and sell energy at market rates. Then there was the announcement that the company was developing low cost mirrors…

Nvidia Optimus - Optimize Graphics Power usage

February 9, 2010February 9, 2010 Tarandeep Singh

So you thought you had switchable GPU graphics that automatically lower power usage by switching discrete graphics, when needed? Well, not really. They have been around since years but they haven’t lived up to user expectations. Nvidia will change that with their new Optimus technology (hopefully). We are not talking about PowerMizer which only changes the clock (and that too is absent in Windows 7). It’s rather about switching between integrated and discrete graphics. Switching between integrated and discrete graphics started with physical toggles, which needed restarts, followed by Windows…

AMD unveils CPU GPU Fusion [Llano]

February 9, 2010February 10, 2010 Tarandeep Singh

Intel may still be suffering the bad side of their so-called HD GPUs, but AMD is already ready to blow them away in Laptop market. AMD has announced a new chip is called the “Llano” processor which is not just a CPU or GPU, instead, it’s a hybrid design that the chip company calls as an “Application Processor Unit,” or APU. Intel’s current offering for the laptops is pretty limited in power they offer for graphics. They offer very-basic level of HD video playback, with DirectX 9 graphics to notebooks. AMD’s…

Face Recognition: New Way to Save Power

October 11, 2009 Tarandeep Singh

Going green in Technology is in-vogue. We’ve seen a numerous number of efforts to save power, and reduce co2 emission. Here comes another one and unique of it’s kind. Hitachi has come up with a face-recognizing television that intends to save power, whenever you are not watching it. The prototype consists of a camera that looks for a face in front of it and whenever you glance away, a power-saving mode like shutting off display or reducing LCD brightness comes into picture. Though this demo features a text instead of actually saving power, but the…

The DOT and NET theory has Irony

May 8, 2009 Tarandeep Singh

Even a small DOT can stop a monster long sentence. NET refers to Internet which contains millions of routers, Billions of hosts, trillions of users, several million meters of Fibers, and 1000s Tera bytes of data flowing every second. But when both are combined, it forms DOTNET or .NET, the world’s most monopolized & monotonized crappy programming language. Isn’t that Ironical ? 😉 Tweet