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Flashlight powered by body heat

A finalist in Google's online science fair, 15 year old Canadian Ann Makosinski, has created a flashlight that runs solely on the heat of the human hand.

The light industrial & commercial EV business will exceed $20b by 2023

IDTechEx projects that 119,000 electric taxis will be sold giving a $1.8 billion global market. Most of the commercial electric vehicles, including the taxis, are and will be pure electric. That will even be true of large commercial vehicles, notably e-buses, set to exceed a $20 billion market as early as 2018 and dominated by demand in China.

Amazon has acquired Liquavista from Samsung Electronics

Reuters reported last Monday that Amazon has acquired Liquavista NV from Samsung Electronics Co to help the world's largest Internet retailer develop new displays for mobile devices.

World's first mass production of electric 3-wheelers

Japanese startup Terra Motors has officially shown its three-wheeled electric tricycle prototype in Tokyo. It is designed to be affordable for emerging markets in large quantities.

Tactus Technology Inc.

Tactus Technology Inc is a venture-backed company.

Industry leaders team up for electric energy initiative

Ford Motor Company announced a strategic collaboration that will demonstrate how a typical American family can significantly reduce their electricity bills and CO2 footprint by integrating home appliance technology with a plug-in vehicle to achieve an energy-efficient lifestyle.

Solar powered robot will search for water ice at the moon's poles

Astrobotic Technology has completed assembly of a full-size prototype of Polaris, a solar-powered robot that will search for potentially rich deposits of water ice at the moon's poles.

Two partners trial Plugless Power wireless electric vehicle charging

Google and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power join Evatran's Apollo Program, the first Program to test and demonstrate wireless charging capability for passenger vehicles.

Student creates energy harvesting roof material

Wang's innovation was to design a system that had a potential to be widely implemented in order to harvest and store the weather energy.

Researchers build first metatronic circuit

Optical engineers at the University of Pennsylvania have created the first computer circuit where logic is performed with light instead of electricity

Google and DOE create EV charging location network

As electric vehicle charging infrastructure becomes a key consideration for governments aiming to progress the wide spread adoption of EVs, innovative, smart solutions are becoming imperative. Google and the U.S. Department of Energy lead a collaboration to increase the ease with which EV motorists can locate their nearest charging stations.

Nexus S, 4 inch Super AMOLED touch screen with curved design

Nexus S offers the latest version of the Android platform, Gingerbread, 4" Super AMOLED touch screen with curved design, Near Field Communication (NFC), front and rear-facing cameras and 1GHz application processor

GE and venture capital partners invest $55 million in new technology

GE and its venture capital partners have announced a collective investment of $55 million in leading power grid technology companies as part of the $200 million "GE ecomagination Challenge."

Honda ranked greenest among automakers

Honda has been named America's "Greenest Automaker" for the fifth consecutive time by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS). The award is earned by the company with the lowest combined score of its smog-forming and greenhouse gas emissions (primarily CO2) in its U.S. automobile fleet.

The exit from China

2010 is turning out to be the year of the great exodus from China.

Electric vehicles in India - Part one

There are already many manufacturers of traction motors in India and a huge nascent market for everything automotive. In the next twelve months at least ten new electric vehicles will enter production in India, from buses, rickshaws and bikes to forklifts.

IDTechEx RFID Knowledgebase passes 4000 RFID projects

By a big margin. the world's largest database of RFID projects is the IDTechEx RFID Knowledgebase. It has just surpassed 4000 projects in 111 countries. Containing technical details, descriptive text, 770 company RFID slide shows and audio, ...

365 Energy Installs First Coulomb ChargePoint

365 Energy has announced the installation of the first Coulomb ChargePoint® Networked Charging Stations in Dublin, Ireland.

Competition fierce in e-reader market

Competition in the e-reader market is fierce and one company in particular is attracting unwanted attention.

Barnes & Noble launches world's largest eBookstore

Barnes & Noble, Inc., the world's largest bookseller, announced the launch of the Barnes & Noble eBookstore.