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Pioneer SC-LX85 – Low CO2 Amplifier

By Stephen - [19/1/2013 - 12:21] - 1 - Environment Home Entertainment

Japanese manufacturers, including electronics manufacturers are world leaders in the push for more eco-friendly products. We have been impressed with the various products being released in the Japanese market that use less electricity,[...]

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Water saving shower head fills water droplets with air

By DigInfo TV - [16/12/2012 - 09:54] - 1 - Environment Household

TOTO is releasing an interchangeable shower head which features their Air-In Shower technology and uses 35% less water than a conventional shower head. “Ordinary water-saving showers use less water by having smaller holes, but we[...]

Water saving shower head fills water droplets with air

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Green House outs the GH-LED10WBW a new LED based lantern that runs on salty water

By Daimaou - G.G-B - [7/9/2012 - 01:41] - 9 - Environment

Here you are the latest “Green” gizmo from Green House (no pun intended) the GH-LED10WBW LED Lantern! This rather “bland” LED light hide an ingenious system that let it runs on salty water (Salt + Water) instead[...]

Green House outs the GH-LED10WBW a new LED based lantern that runs on salty water

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Panasonic Establishes First Energy Solutions Development Centre in Asia Pacific

By Pnauts - [16/7/2012 - 07:47] - 0 - Environment

On the 3rd of July, Panasonic Asia Pacific announced the establishment of the Panasonic Energy Solutions Development Centre Singapore (PESDCSG) and provided updates on its Punggol Eco Town public residential housing test-bed project. I[...]

Panasonic Establishes First Energy Solutions Development Centre in Asia Pacific

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Nissan LEAF Battery Used to Power Homes

By DigInfo TV - [18/6/2012 - 08:42] - 1 - Electric Vehicle Environment Household

Nichicon is planning to begin sales of the Vehicle to Home System “EV Power Station” in July. This system enables the user to draw power from a large-capacity battery in an electric vehicle and use it in the home after bein[...]

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Daikin Industries demos Water resistant coating for mobile phone circuit boards

By Daimaou - G.G-B - [19/4/2012 - 04:48] - 1 - Science

Daikin Industries is developing a coating, mainly for use on the circuit boards of mobile phones, that’s resistant to water and moisture, environmentally friendly, and dries as a thin film. This coating enables circuit boards to [...]

Daikin Industries demos Water resistant coating for mobile phone circuit boards

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Toshiba demonstrates revolutionary Copier that prints using erasable toners

By DigInfo TV - [10/3/2012 - 10:46] - 2 - Environment Printer Scanner

Toshiba Tec is developing a revolutionary copier system that can erase printed text from regular copy paper. The printer uses a special erasable toner, and when the printed page is passed through the color erasing device, the printing [...]

Toshiba demonstrates revolutionary Copier that prints using erasable toners

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Nissan Adds New Features to the 2012 Leaf in the US

By Daimaou - G.G-B - [25/7/2011 - 03:18] - 2 - Car Electric Vehicle

Nissan announced last week in the US its new 2012 Leaf with improved features and, unfortunately a higher price as well. On sales starting from today, your new leaf will pack from standard a cold weather package with a battery warmer a[...]

Nissan Adds New Features to the 2012 Leaf in the US

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Sony and Daiwa House Brings Power Saving Game Concept to your House

By Daimaou - G.G-B - [7/7/2011 - 03:19] - 0 - Press Conference Environment Household Software

Today Sony CSL (Sony Computer Science Laboratory) and Daiwa House demonstrate at Daiwa House D-TEC Plaza a new entertaining concept to help people to better manager their energy consumption as well as their Home appliance. Thanks to a [...]

Sony and Daiwa House Brings Power Saving Game Concept to your House

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Panasonic Develops Thermoelectric Tubes for Compact Geothermal Electricity Generation and Waste Heat Recovery

By Daimaou - G.G-B - [4/7/2011 - 10:18] - 0 - Environment Science

Harnessing thermal energy in not something really new, but sadly such thing is still far from being mainframe, but Panasonic announcement may one day change things forever. The concept here is very simple, converting energy from conven[...]

Panasonic Develops Thermoelectric Tubes for Compact Geothermal Electricity Generation and Waste Heat Recovery

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Sharp begins to test “Ultimate Power Saving” House in Osaka

By Daimaou - G.G-B - [13/6/2011 - 01:13] - 0 - Environment Household

Starting this June, Sharp will start a series of test of its eco technology including but not only solar panels, Eco Powered Equipment like fridge, LED Lights, AC and other Power Monitoring and management system on a real size House bu[...]

Sharp begins to test “Ultimate Power Saving” House in Osaka

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[Computex 2011] Acer receives honors in design and innovation

By Tom LESKIN - [3/6/2011 - 12:34] - 0 - Desktop Laptops Phones Tablet-PDA

Acer recently announced that it had a total of six winning entries at this year’s Computex Taipei design and innovation awards, organized by iF design. Products that are honored with these awards stand out by excellent design with eval[...]

[Computex 2011] Acer receives honors in design and innovation

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Honda Signs E-KIZUNA Project (Honda Smart Home System) Agreement with City of Saitama

By Daimaou - G.G-B - [24/5/2011 - 10:06] - 0 - Electric Vehicle Environment

Honda announced yesterday that they finally signed an agreement with the City of Saitama in Japan for the cooperation in Co2 reduction testing with Honda’s Mart Home System. This agreement will fist allow a really test drive of the usa[...]

Honda Signs E-KIZUNA Project (Honda Smart Home System) Agreement with City of Saitama

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Fujitsu releases a new smart Power Strip with Power consumption meter

By Daimaou - G.G-B - [22/3/2011 - 08:10] - 0 - Environment Household

Fujitsu has introduced earlier this month in Japan a new smart power strip and Gateway, the FX-5204PS and FX-5250GW that once connected to a PC via USB 2.0 or Via Ethernet, can give you your exact power consumption on each socket as we[...]

Fujitsu releases a new smart Power Strip with Power consumption meter

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[CEBIT 2011] Samya, a big player in ecological & solar powered supplies

By Ike - [7/3/2011 - 08:19] - 0 - Environment Peripherals

Solar cell panels and battery packs might not strike you as a new technology or original, but they are important technologies which are getting improvements every year. One of these manufacturers present at CeBIT, was the Taiwanese bas[...]

[CEBIT 2011] Samya, a big player in ecological & solar powered supplies

[FC Expo 2011] Tokyo Gas and Panasonic new Ene-Farm in the flesh

By Daimaou - G.G-B - [4/3/2011 - 02:56] - 0 - Environment

Early February Tokyo Gas and Panasonic launched their new and improved Ene-Farm Home Fuel Cell solution that will bring, at a cost, the Fuel Cell Fairy to any house in Japan (Here for more details on the Ene-Farm), and during this week[...]

[FC Expo 2011] Tokyo Gas and Panasonic new Ene-Farm in the flesh

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Sharp Develops Intelligent Power Conditioner That Enables Electric Vehicle Batteries to Be Used as Storage Batteries for Home Power

By Daimaou - G.G-B - [22/2/2011 - 03:59] - 2 - Environment

Sharp has developed the Intelligent Power Conditioner that enables batteries in electric vehicles to be used as storage batteries for the home. With electric vehicles (EVs) expected to see widespread use in the coming years, this techn[...]

Sharp Develops Intelligent Power Conditioner That Enables Electric Vehicle Batteries to Be Used as Storage Batteries for Home Power

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Tokyo Gas and Panasonic to Launch New Improved “Ene-Farm” Home Fuel Cell

By Daimaou - G.G-B - [10/2/2011 - 11:30] - 1 - Environment

Panasonic and Tokyo GAS has joined forces to develop and commercialize a new “Home fuel Cell” solution name Ene-Fram. Based on the simple yet complex fuel cell technology, the Ene-Farm” fuel cell co-generation systems generate el[...]

Tokyo Gas and Panasonic to Launch New Improved “Ene-Farm” Home Fuel Cell

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[Video] Honda Starts Lease Sales of the EV-neo Electric Scooter

By Daimaou - G.G-B - [16/12/2010 - 11:14] - 0 - Environment

Introduced earlier this Year, the EV-neo is Honda’s first electric Scooter, and after many hours, days and month testing and building this next Gen Scooter, Honda has decided that it was about time to launch its little EV-neo in the wi[...]

[Video] Honda Starts Lease Sales of the EV-neo Electric Scooter

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Japan Post to Import Italian Electric Bikes for Delivery Routes?

By Akihabara News Team - [15/12/2010 - 05:14] - 0 - Environment

The deadtree Asahi and Nikkei newspapers reported last month on Japan Post’s decision to import Italian-made electric motorcycles to deploy on their postal delivery routes. This follows a 2008 decision and announcement that the r[...]

Japan Post to Import Italian Electric Bikes for Delivery Routes?

Green House Announces New LED Lightbulbs

By Akihabara News Team - [15/12/2010 - 12:56] - 0 - Environment

Green House’s recent trend of new products with an ecologically-conscious spin sees another addition with the introduction of new LED lightbulbs, the Hikario. It only pulls 7.7W and fits in any old E26 bulb socket, and are rated [...]

Green House Announces New LED Lightbulbs

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Sharp Tokai Challenger Solar Panel Car: Photos!

By Akihabara News Team - [13/12/2010 - 02:00] - 0 - Environment

Remember the solar panel-covered car built by Sharp and Tokai University that we covered over a year ago? We got photos! Mosey your way down to the gallery. Looks sort of like a tamer, calmer, and ecologically friendlier Heavy Raider to me.