Solar and natural lifestyle » Eco http://maati.com/blog Latest in solar powered products, organic and eco products Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:13:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 eBook- now solar powered http://maati.com/blog/ebook-now-solar-powered/ http://maati.com/blog/ebook-now-solar-powered/#comments Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:52:06 +0000 Maati http://maati.com/blog/?p=48 Well, eBooks are not to be another one of those energy guzzling gadgets anymore.

I love to read books and loves the smell of paper and holding that book in my hands. At the same time, there are times when I wish I had a particular book in hand or could immediately start reading a book as soon as I see it online.

There are times when I want to share or mark stuff- and those things are not easy in the paper books.

Ah if only eBooks were not this energy guzzling electricity (rechargable) battery operated devices.

Well there is Hope.

Enjoy

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LG made some advancements and has announced the launch of a prototype for a solar eBook reader.

And no it will presumably not be bulky or heavy.

As reported here:

The thin-film solar cell featured in the e-book measures 10 centimeters in width and length, it was developed to perfectly fit the 6-inch display panel for e-book currently mass produced by LG Display. The solar cell measures 0.7 millimeter in thickness and weighs a mere 20 grams, the less thickness of a credit card and the weight of a fountain pen.

A bit of a downer, in my opinion, is the charging time and battery life. You need to charge for 5 hours for a full days reading. But LG says it is going to be more efficient as technology progresses. Optimism also shared at Wired by Charlie Shorrel


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View more documents from Melvin Pereira.

A great presentation pulled from slideshare- on Green Business Practices- and how they actually help businesses rather than take an altruistic route. 

Enjoy!

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A stackable fridge! The idea apparently started with the need to have your own refrigerator space (!) for people who stay in hostels or share a fridge with roommates.

We think the idea is immensely scalable and soon every family will need one. Of course, even in one family, people have different cars, different handphones, different TVs! So one refrigerator but with different stacks is just what the doc ordered.

But the killer concept is that it would save such a lot of energy- just by grouping the refrigerated products. Use only the stack that is needed- keeping the rest stacks cooler and not letting cool air escape.

Flatshare Fridge is a design concept by Stefan Buchberger, a design student at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna.

We leave you with some cool photos

Cool.Eh? More details at Toxel and Inhabitat.

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