Just imagine if your whole house could be powered by a battery. No dependence on electricity, diesel for generators, electric grids or what have you. Just a small gadget which will store all the power that a normal house needs for a week.

And yet this kind of device is already being manufactured though it is still in the testing stage. Panasonic has bought a 50 percent stake in Sanyo both companies have combined their synergies to become bigger and better. Panasonic has announced its plans to market a lithium-ion storage cell for home use around the year 2011.

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The V-trek bike is fuel cell powered and is made for people who are looking for an eco-friendly bike. Designed by Terence Teo, it is a zero emission bike which can reach a top speed of 50 km. per hour.

The bike works via the proton cell exchange membrane, which uses hydrogen and converts it to electricity to power the motor. It can store 700 liters of hydrogen in the metal canisters. An added advantage of this bike is that it can be customized to suit personal tastes.

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The Department of Transportation gave a grant of $100,000 to Solar Roadways to develop a road which will display warning to pedestrians and drivers telling them whether it is all clear or there are obstacles. If there are people on the panel, the drivers will receive a message on large LED screens telling them and they are supposed to slow down.

As the panels come with heating units, they will not get covered by snow and will still work. The panels will ‘communicate; with one another thanks to built-in microprocessors. Cars will be able to drive smoothly over and not drift.

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When celebrities join the green movement it gives the movement a boost. Now Lindsay Lohan’s mother, Dina, is launching a http://worldental.org/dental-news/lindsay-lohans-mother-launches-eco-friendly-toothbrush/1202/ which will help conserve water.

It is estimated that each person wastes approximately 2 gallons of water daily on oral hygiene. So if wastage is reduced it can help conserve a great deal of potable water. In conjunction with UTC Aqua free, Dina, is making a toothbrush with a cartridge system which will dispense liquid toothpaste. Dubbed the Lohan Freedom Brush this will help reduce wastage of 2 gallons of water per head per day.

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Alternative energy, clean, green and cheap in a small box? No more dependence on large electricity corporations, no more power failures? Too good to be true? Well, it seems to be already on the anvil and already being used by corporations like Google, eBay, FedEx, Staples, Wal-Mart and more, all of who actually use it.

K.R. Sridhar, CEO of Bloom Energy, apparently invented this device when he was working for NASA and has now modified it to work locally and commercially. It is the equivalent of a power plant in a box and, in a globe starved of power, it may prove the answer to power woes.

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Everybody generates kinetic energy when they move. Usually this energy is just wasted energy. But now inventors are looking at ways that this energy can be utilized. What better way than to recharge your gadgets?

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In an exciting development in the medical field, Steve Collins and Arthur Duo developed a foot prosthetic which actually uses energy which is otherwise lost. People, who have physical problems with the ankle, need to wear an artificial foot, which is quite heavy.

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Apple recently launched its new offering, the iPad. This tablet pc is small and light, and very portable. It is environmentally friendly, being free of arsenic, BFR, mercury and PVR. It is also highly recyclable. It weighs just 1.5 pounds, has a 9.7 inch display, and is .5 inches thin. It has a 10 hour battery life which means that it uses less electricity. The iPad’s 30-day standby battery life means that it rarely needs to be plugged in at night, too.

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If you have small children in the house, you will well know how much energy they have. It is almost impossible to keep up with small kids running around and playing. Aaron Tsui, Irina Kozlovskaya, Jasen Mehta and Sergio Silva have together designed and created Rocco, a rocking horse for children which harnesses the kinetic energy unleashed when a child rocks on it.

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The Stick POP printer has been designed by Jihun Kang, Youngho Lee, Jieun Lee & Changsu – it is in the concept stage and still not commercially available. This portable printer measures 23cm by 6cm and you can carry it anywhere with you. It offers USB connectivity and an OLED screen on top of the bar that can display printing status.

It uses slot type cartridges which seem easy enough to change. No word on whether it can print in color or not. How is it environmentally friendly you may well ask? Well, since it is extremely small it is going to use much less plastic. It is also powered by an internal battery and can be connected via USB, so it is going to use less power.

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