Green Technology on TFTS - Page 2

At CES last month, the American arm of Japanese camera giant Casio unveiled their newest creation, the Casio Green Slim projector, which, they claim, is the world’s first high-brightness mercury-free projector. Casio’s measure of a high-brightness projector is anything over 2,000 lumens, and with the new Green Slim coming in …

Panasonic bought tech competitor Sanyo for $4.4 billion last year, not just for their camcorders or their lithium-ion batteries (Sanyo being the world’s #1 producer of lithium-ion batteries) but for Sanyo’s experience in green technology. Sanyo’s eneloop brand of gadgets is marketed as Earth-friendly, low-power consumption models, but Sanyo also …

Electric car manufacturer Tesla has secured $465 million in federal funding to expand its vehicle offering and production line.  The $465 million low-cost Energy Department loan will help build a Southern California plant for the forthcoming Tesla Model S, as well as a powertrain facility in Palo Alto, California.

Folks from GreenPeace took some time off from their whaling war with the Japanese vessels and looked for a few moments to the tech industry and have rated some a new set of notebooks. Making the list are Acer’s eco-friendly Aspire 3811TZ and the 3811TZG models as they don’t feature …

NEC may be a very minor brand in Europe and the US, but in their native Japan, they’re a major player in the technology space. NEC’s new Mate ME is an enterprise-aimed workstation PC that boasts a 30% energy cost reduction compared to previous iterations of the Mate ME.

Silver PAC has announced a new smart thermostat with a detailed graphical display to manage both home temperature and energy consumption.  The Silver PAC SilverSTAT 7 provides a lush, graphic display of temperature and energy use data with a wireless connection for mobile management of your home’s climate.

One of the big products that ASUS is showing off at CES is their new Bamboo line of notebook computers. The first one, U53, features a “nature-inspired” bamboo design that looks great and, according to ASUS, will help the environment as the bamboo parts are replacing plastic in a production …

LED traffic lights are a great way for cities around the world to save on energy costs, but from what we’re hearing although they use 90 percent less energy, they’re not as efficient compared to traditional incandescent light bulbs when heavy snow strikes the way it did in many places …

CherryPal has gone for the low-low-end of the tech market, with their new netbook named ‘Africa’. The Africa has a very limited set of specs, and can’t even run a full version of Windows, and instead offers a Linux OS, or Windows CE.

The American car industry may be in trouble, but they’re still trying new things. Last week at the LA Auto Show, American car giant Chevrolet gave a press conference on the Chevy Volt, their all-electric car, and revealed a quick PowerPoint slide that the carmaker was developing a mobile phone …

Oregon Scientific have released two new +ECO Weather Stations which, along with embracing eco-friendly solar power courtesy of detachable solar panels, offer atomic clocks as well as offering indoor and outdoor temperature readings and LED backlit displays.