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In Case You Missed It: Solar Lighting at Ikea

While the Ikea Summer 2009 sneak peek at AT LA had us lusting over the Arholma outdoor sectional, what we didn't, and should have taken a closer look at, was the solar lighting selection. We are yet t...

Solar Power for Apartment Dwellers

When we think of solar panels, two words come to mind. Big and expensive. Picture rooftops covered in black tiles or more innovative solar powered air conditioners. While most people would jump at the...

Green Idea? Solar Birdhouse

Now I'm no bird keeper. In fact the last memory I had of handling birds was as a young child thinking that my pet love birds needed to get out of their cage so that they could take a walk. An open win...

Solar Powered Cell Phones: Sustainable Phones for the Future?

Until solar panels are harnessing a lot more power out of the sun, electricity will always be a precious commodity. Solar energy is a way to take things out of the hands of the Man and back into yours...

New Cell Phones: From Idou to Solar Powered

Ever since the iPhone came out, companies have been scrambling to create a real competitor. It's not just that the iPhone rocks, it's the features that you get. Sure it has its faults, but some of the...

Solar Blinds: Stores Power By Day, Shines By Night

Here's a "bright" idea if we've ever seen one: Take your standard Venetian blinds, attach some thin solar panels on them, and let them store energy on batteries during the daytime and allow them to gr...

Kinesis K2: Using the Wind and Sun to Power Your Devices

We all know that using the sun and wind is a great way to create electricity. It's green and pure. The problem is that there aren't that many devices out that use solar and wind power. Thankfully, thi...

Solar Paper Lantern Makes Green Look Good

Covering something in solar panels, whether it's a house or some sunglasses, doesn't particularly make it look very attractive. I mean, we're talking about silicon and glass here, not leather and lace...

Solar Sunglasses: Charge Your Gadgets on the Go!

One of the renewable energies that we always have on hand is solar energy, and we all know that we don't use it enough. One of the reasons why we aren't using solar energy more is that it's usually im...

The Solar Lampion: A Great Green Lantern

Using the sun to power lamps is something that all designers and manufacturers should strive for. It just seems logical that the sun's energy should be saved in some way so that we could use it again ...

The World's Most Efficient Solar Clock

The great thing about solar clocks is that once they are up, you won't have to bring them down again to change batteries. We think that using solar power for clocks is a great idea. Seiko has just ann...

Husqvana Robotic Automowers

Grace over at AT Los Angeles reviewed an electric lawn mower not that long ago to mixed results (she liked the quiet, emission free performance, but the mower's cutting coverage was small and the batt...

Solar-Powered Lamp Silhouettes Keep Green Looking Cool

Lets play the 'Get to Know Taryn' game. Dislikes: wires, pickles and wasting space. Likes: dim lighting, the color "greige," green living made easy and silhouettes. Needless to say, when I saw this la...

Plantbot Looks Steampunk, Acts Creepy

We recently picked up some of those $1.99 bamboo stalks at Ikea. The reason for the impromptu purchase was the possibility of finding a solution to an ever-lasting problem: We want plants in the house...

DIY Smart Coasters Tell You What You Already Know

Techie coasters have been popping up everywhere. We've already blogged about coasters themed after circuit boards, floppy disks, pixelated images, Apple compatible icons, vintage records, Polaroids, a...

Prometeo: Charge Your Gadgets With Solar Power

Solar powered chargers are the latest fashion. We've seen jackets, backpacks and other devices that promise you to charge your gadgets. The Prometeo just seems more useful. It was designed for Samsung...

SunNight Solar BoGo Flashlight Lights Up Lives

Here's a home tech item designed with pragmatic and humanitarian goals in mind. Like the OLPC laptop program, where the purchase of a laptop results in the donation of another laptop for a child in a ...

How To...Build Your Own Solar Panels

When Mike Davis, an astronomer, moved to a remote part of Arizona he realized his astronomical sights were so rad in his new location because he had no light pollution. As a result, he also had no el...

Two-Faced Spark Lamp Is Gorgeous, Eco Friendly

When great technological functionality meets amazing design, Unplggd will be there. The Spark Lamp from designer Beverly Ng has a very practical application. It acts as a plant by day, soaking up rays...

Bonsai Solar-Cell Charger

In the quest of keeping all of your gadgets charged up, nothing would be quite like using a bonsai tree that uses the sun to juice them up. Vivien Muller came out with this great concept to charge you...

Using Google Maps to Map Out Solar Panels

Installing solar panels on your home is one of the smartest things you can do, but it's also costly -- even if you're using Ikea's upcoming solar sheets. Finding out after the fact that you've instal...

Greencore Solar-Powered Air Conditioner

The inherent problem with solar-powered air conditioners is that solar panels aren't efficient enough to power the power hungry machines on their own. Greencore has come up with a solution to that pro...

Hot Posts 08.17.08: This Week's Top Ten Unplggd Posts

We had some wicked posts this week. So wicked not only were you regular Unplggd-ers reading, we got a sweet plug from Real Simple. High five! After the break a list of the top ten posts of the week....

A Freeloader That You'll Want to Keep!

ATLA's Australian correspondent Jenny sent us this piece about some green tech we thought we'd share... We get plenty of sun here in Australia- even in winter. This can be handy as we’re less likel...

The ‘Soft House’ Powered by Solar Textiles

With alternative energy technology becoming more viable, we're excited about some of the concepts on the horizon. Sheila Kennedy's Soft House is designed to generate close to 16,000 watt-hours of elec...

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