Posts Tagged ‘electricity’
Green Energy
Smartphone Smart Plug Measures and Captures Each Gadgets Electricity Usage
Power companies have gone to great lengths to convert many of their tried and tested electricity meters from analog to digital. And with that has come wireless connectivity, negating the need for them to perform on site visits...
Offbeat
Watch Two Guys Exchange Lightning Bolts Using Just Their Hands (video)
Electricity should not be messed with. You learn that when you’re a kid. That’s probably why this video is so damn captivating. You’ll watch a guy in a red suit and a guy in a blue suit exchange lightning be...
Accessory Reviews
i.Sound Portable Power Max 16,000 mAH Backup Battery Review
If you want to say that the name of this battery backup — i.Sound Portable Power Max 16,000 mAH Backup Battery — is never going to make it on a business card, no contest. But with battery backups having become a cot...
Wacky
Kite-Like Tidal Turbine Provides 500 Kilowatts An Hour Of Water Power
Check this out: Researchers in England have created a new type of tidal turbine, code named “Deep Green,” that’s attached to a kite-like apparatus and tethered to the floor of the ocean by 100 meters of cable....
Contests
Rozetkus 3D: A Spring Loaded 5 Prong Socket
99% of the time 2 electrical outlets – the standard in US homes – isn’t enough to fulfill our consumer electronics’ demand for power. The resolve is to plug in one of those unsightly power strips, which...
Science
Two Australian Men Claim To Have Invented A Perpetual Motion Machine (i.e. free electricity)
Using magnetic attraction and repulsion, two Australian men have claimed to produce a perpetual motion machine that will produce infinite electricity.
Green Energy
Gadgets At A Glance: Watt’s Up? An Internet Enabled Electricity Meter
What is it: As the title says, an Internet enabled electricity meter. Plug your power sucking device in and its built-in webserver uploads power usage to the Wattsupmeters.com website. Features: Usage can be recorded at all so...
Amazon Deals
P3 International P4460 Kill A Watt EZ Electricity Usage Monitor – $35 Shipped
Price drop alert! Amazon now has the P3 International P4460 Kill A Watt EZ Electricity Usage Monitor for $60 – $25 instant savings + Free Shipping = $35 Shipped! Look to ‘more buying choices’ to get this price...
