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ReZAP Battery Engineer can charge non-rechargeable batteries
At my home, I have a lot of devices that live by rechargeable batteries. However, those rechargeables are very expensive.
Not only that, but I still have a lot of dead batteries which do nothing but get tossed and destroy the environment. I don’t even buy these things anymore, and I can’t imagine why anyone does. What if I was able to recharge these guys?
This is exactly what the ReZap Battery Engineer is designed to do. Not only can it charge both regular and rechargeable batteries up to ten times, but it can charge four cells of varying sizes at the same time. In case you are wondering, it is capable of doing AA, AAA, AAAA, C, D, and 9-volt kinds.
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Danish hotel lets guests generate power for their meals
For those who want to earn some free meals at your hotel stay might want to look into this hotel in Denmark.
Apparently, Crowne Plaza Hotel will reward a guest who goes on the exercise bike for about fifteen minutes. This is enough for the guest to pedal out 10 watt hours of electricity. I’m not certain how much that is good for, but if a guest is willing to sweat it out that long, he or she gets a $36 meal voucher. Again, I’m not certain how much that is good for. (For all I know, the meals at this hotel could cost $75.)
You’ve got to admire this hotel’s unique way of giving their guests a break while power is generated. Now, if these bikes were put in the gym rather than outside the hotel, then you’ve got a marriage of physical fitness and green power!
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Honda electric scooter EV-neo coming to Japan
This is the electric scooter, or e-scooter, from Honda known as the EV-neo.
This is a vehicle that is more green than grass. The main selling point is it allows the user to recharge the battery from ordinary household power outlets. That is good enough for about 30 km on the road, for a single charge.
The battery is a lithium ion battery from Toshiba, and it takes about 20 mintes to charge the battery to eighty percent capacity using a 200 Volt power source.
According to my source, it is the equivalent of a 50cc gas-powered motorcycle.
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Nomadic Plants, cyborgs that can save the planet
I realize that what you are looking at looks like a still shot from a science fiction film, and I wish to say that this was complete science fact.
These Nomadic plants are designed by a Mexican artist named Gilberto Espaza. I’m not certain whether or not this is something that actually works, but the idea is that the Nomadic plant is a self-contained cyborg that can hold plants and micro-organisms. It is a microbial fuel cell for power, and it can drink polluted water.
That’s right, polluted water. Somehow it can use the water to nourish the plants and microbes, and they power the microbial fuel cell. Don’t ask me how it can filter out the pollutants, but maybe plants don’t need unpolluted water like we do.
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Solar Impulse, first completely solar-powered plane, has its first flight
This mechanical phoenix that you see here is the Solar Impulse, and this completely solar-powered plane just completed its first flight this morning.
The flight lasted 87-minutes long, and soared to 5,500 feet. During that time, it only achieved a top speed of 44 miles per hour. According to the pilot, Marcus Scherdel, “the aircraft’s control-ability matches our expectations”.
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BioLite Camp Stove cooks and generates electricity
This BioLite was originally created for developing countries, but in addition to those areas this would come in very handy for hardcore campers and hikers. The main function of this is to function as a very lightweight and efficient little stove. For that it works excellently, but it also can use all of its leftover heat to power up your gadgets.
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Solar-Powered Dress
Gadgets seem to slowly be making their way into the fashion world. Sure, they aren’t really something you see everyday out on the sidewalk, but they are starting to be created a little more. I’m still not sure that I want an electronic dress, but it would be another way to make sure all of your small gadgets stay charged. Whether or not something like this would ever catch on enough to be produced is strongly debatable though.
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OLED Wallpaper creates an interesting lighting effect
I realize that this still shot here looks like it was taken from a music video, but it is to demonstrate the power of OLED wallpaper.
OLED wallpaper is something that LOMOX is working on, and the OLED lighting is designed for providing ambient lighting to any room. I’m guessing that it can be put on a low-light setting for the day, and high in the day. It better be good enough to read by.
The good news is that OLED wallpaper takes less power than ordinary lightbulbs. It requires a low operating voltage of about 3 to 5 volts, so it will probably reduce your electric bill.
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