By Inhabitat : Tidal energy made waves around the world this week as Inhabitat reported that Verdant Power was awarded the first license for an East River power project in NYC, while across the pond the UK announced plans for a gigantic 27 gigawatt Marine Energy Park and a new SeaRaser tidal power plantthat could be the world's cheapest method of producing electricity. We also watched President Obama set forth a green blueprint for America in his State of the Union Address, despite going Read more [...]

"On the one hand, mobile devices release us from being tethered to one place. For instance, one no longer needs to be connected to a modem to browse the web, thanks to smartphones that are Wi-Fi enabled. On the other, such mobility is of no use if one does not have mobile facilities for charging the devices. Mobile chargers are common, but what if you were on a trek through the Amazon and the battery in your device ran out of charge? If you are willing to pay around $300 (£200), you Read more [...]

DLNA TUTORIAL It wasn't too long ago that the only way to get movies, music and photos from your computer to your TV was to shell out $2,000 on a home media centre PC. Then came networked PVRs, media-playing games consoles and, lately, TVs and Blu-ray players that can plug into your network and play content without any intervention on your part. Indeed, today's consumer electronics devices offer more flexibility when it comes to computer content than ever before – and it's all possible thanks Read more [...]

Life is fraught: social interaction, inflation and fashion all conspire to ruin your day. Even the simple act of firing up your PMP can send you to the floor in tears if you discover your earbuds are in the wrong way, forever ruining the beautiful stereo trickery of The White Album. Fortunately, Japan's Science and Technology Agency has beavered away at this most first-world of problems with its Universal Earphones Project. One earpiece holds a proximity sensor, which if it's pointing Read more [...]

Ever wondered about how that GPS on your smartphone works when it cleverly locates you? GPS satellites broadcast a repeating signal which emits its location and the current time. These signals are synchronised between satellites making use of highly accurate atomic clocks. The signals arrive at your GPS receiver at slightly different times because, although they all travel at the speed of light, some satellites are closer to you than others. It all sounds great in theory but sometimes the Read more [...]

This has to be one of the coolest gadget/elevator a car enthusiast can have for their prized possession. I don’t really consider it a garage it’s more of an elegant looking lift to say the least but it gets custom built into your driveway and it can hold a car on top of the lift and a car on the bottom of the lift, to get a better picture of what were saying when the lift is down and a car is parked on the lift it will raise in the air to allow accessibility to the car at the bottom. This is Read more [...]