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Genius Unveils World’s First Battery-Free Wireless Mouse

Genius just took a big step forward for computer peripherals by launching the world’s first wireless battery-free mouse. The mighty mouse eschews wasteful AAAs and heavier lithium-ion batteries in favor of an electric double-layer ultracapacitor that requires just a quick 3 minute charge each day. The Genius DX-Eco runs on a 2.4 Ghz connection, is rated to last for 100,000... weiterlesen...

This Nice 1-Minute Video Explains the Difference Between Climate & Weather

This simple little video offers up a memorable analogy for the difference between climate and weather. weiterlesen...

Spread Holiday Joy With a Handmade Felt-Flower Brooch (DIY Tutorial)

This do-it-yourself ribbon brooch will only take 20 minutes to make!  Handmade goodness fills any gift recipient up with joy, and with found materials you can create this gorgeous, unique flower brooch that goes with anything – dressy or casual. Click ahead to check out the best last minute gift idea around! READ MORE > Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post ta... weiterlesen...

10 Green Living Books That Make Great Last Minute Gifts

Read the rest of 10 Green Living Books That Make Great Last Minute Gifts Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: book ideas, book suggestions, books, eco design, eco gift ideas, gift ideas, green design, green gift ideas, green interiors, green living, green living books, last minute gift ideas, sustainable gift ideas weiterlesen...

GM and Teijin Team Up to Develop Mass Production Techniques for Carbon Fiber Car Parts

General Motors just announced a partnership with Japanese company Teijin that they hope will lead to lighter weight and more efficient vehicles. Teijin is an advanced materials company that specializes in carbon fiber and recently released information about their proprietary process that allows carbon fiber sheets to be produced in under a minute. Traditionally, carbon fiber wa... weiterlesen...

Kristen Wiig’s Global Breathing Initiative Will End Climate Change (Video)

Q: What if everyone on the planet held their breath for one minute every day? A: We'd stop climate change. According to Kristen Wiig. And Mitt Romney. weiterlesen...

World’s First Manned Electric Multicopter Flight Achieved by e-Volo

In late October, Thomas Senkel of e-volo completed the world’s first manned flight of an electric multicopter on an airstrip in the southwest of Germany. The flight lasted one minute and 30 seconds. Of the flight, the constructor and test pilot said, “The flight characteristics are good-natured. Without any steering input it would just hover there on the spot.”... weiterlesen...

Volta Announces It Will Release New BCN Electric Motorcycle in 2012

This sexy new electric motorcycle, called the Volta BCN, is set to hit the market in Q2 of next year in Spain and promises to be the perfect ride for the urban environmentalist. The electric motorcycle world is getting larger by the minute and bikes like the BRD Redshift and Orphiro are hitting the market this year, so Volta has a bit of competition to go up against. Teaser vide... weiterlesen...

DIY: How to Make a Last Minute Salvador Dali Lobster Telephone Costume in Just 30 Minutes!

Read the rest of DIY: How to Make a Last Minute Salvador Dali Lobster Telephone Costume in Just 30 Minutes! Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: creative costume, DIY, diy costume, green costume, green halloween, green halloween costume, halloween, lobster phone, Lobster Telephone, recycled halloween costume, salvador dali weiterlesen...

Teenager Tests Human-Powered Helicopter for Aviation Record Bid

Human-powered helicopters have made headlines again and again over the last 12 months, and a team from the University of Maryland even broke the record for longest human-powered flight. However, a 19 year old teenager from UC Berkeley is now aiming to claim the American Helicopter Society Igor I. Sikorsky Human Powered Helicopter Prize by building a human-powered helicopter tha... weiterlesen...

Amazing Record Playing Bicycle Blasts Music as You Pedal

Read the rest of Amazing Record Playing Bicycle Blasts Music as You Pedal Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: dezeen bike, dutch art collaboration, dutch bikes, Feats per minute, green bike design, Liat Azulay, Merel Sloother, musical bicycle, Pieter Frank de Jong, record playing bike weiterlesen...

POOP SCOOP Robot Keeps Streets Clean by Automatically Picking Up Dog Poo

Dog poop is a blight upon city streets and parks, however researchers recently unveiled a new breed of robot capable of picking up the offensive little landmines before they find someone’s shoe. Designed by the University of Pennsylvania’s GRASP Lab, the POOP SCOOP (Perception Of Offensive Products and Sensorized Control Of Object Pickup) robot is amazingly accurate R... weiterlesen...

Flybus: New Hybrid Bus Uses Flywheel Instead of Battery to Store Kinetic Energy

Earlier this year at the Detroit Auto Show, we heard about Porsche’s hybrid race car that garners energy from a flywheel, and now a consortium called Flybus has put that energy reusing technology into a regular bus. This simple technology takes kinetic energy generated as the vehicle is breaking and winds up a flywheel that feeds energy back into the wheels when accelerati... weiterlesen...

Weekday Vegetarian: Moroccan Stuffed Tomatoes

Photo: Kelly Rossiter We've been eating tomatoes at pretty much every meal for the past two weeks, except last night when my husband cried "enough" and I made a Chinese stir fry with nary a tomato in sight. No doubt a lot of you are feeling the same way, but as I said to my Parentables editor who was bemoaning the glut of tomatoes from her garden, just think about January for a... weiterlesen...

G.O.P. Presidential Candidates Acknowledge Wind Power in Iowa by Autographing a Turbine

While it may seem to go against the usual anti-renewable energy stance that the red party is known for, this past weekend, the Republican candidates for president took a minute out of their busy schedules to sign a wind turbine. As part of the Iowa Straw Poll, the wind power signing event (organized by the American Wind Energy Association), was meant to show support for wind e... weiterlesen...

Architecture » Prefab Slapstick in One Week

by Aaron BrittI was in the process of researching a big prefab round-up story this week when I came across what might be the only prefab slapstick comedy in existence. A good three decade's before Jacque Tati's M. Hulot bumbled his way through the modern world, Buster Keaton played a luckless newlywed trying to build a kit home in One Week (1920). Build-it-by-the-numbers kit home... weiterlesen...

Life Inside a 7×12′ Portable, Tiny House (Video)

Image credit: Peak Moment TV From posting on the Tumbleweed Tiny House Company back in 2005 to announcing the birth of the first Tiny House Conference, TreeHugger has been following the growth of the tiny house movement with enthusiasm for years. But what does life inside one of these minute dwellings look like? Peak Moment TV sat down for a conversation with one tiny house dwe... weiterlesen...

JetBlue’s $4 Flights Take Off in Los Angeles & Take Down the Environment

This Saturday JetBlue is offering $4 flights between the Burbank and Long Beach airports in an effort to help residents avoid the inevitable Carmegedon that will occur with the closing of a 10-mile stretch of the city’s infamously slow 405 freeway. We thought it was a joke when we first saw mention of the promotion, but the joke’s on the environment because they have alread... weiterlesen...

In depth: Car2go goes electric in San Diego

Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Transportation Alternatives, SMART, AutoblogGreen Exclusive Electric Car2go In San Diego - Click above for high-res image gallery When you're trying to reconfigure how people think about urban car "ownership" - by which we mean stripping out the ownership part and replacing it with the idea of having access to a car whenever you need one - the powertra... weiterlesen...

Hotel Register » The Hi Matic Hotel

by Diana BuddsIn Paris's 11th Arrondissement, the Bastille district, French design maven Matali Crasset has composed delightfully unique and über contemporary design hotel for weary travelers to lay their heads. Hi Matic is part Japanese ryokan, part hostel, part technophile's dream (virtually everything is automated from reservations to check-in to check-out), and wholly a ... weiterlesen...