Solar panels in clothing could keep us talking
524978
MOBILE phone users left talking to themselves when their battery runs out in the middle of a call could soon see an end to their frustration as scientists perfect a way to recharge electrical equipment while on the move.
414076
A new solar breakthrough could expand a subsidiary's business.
665387
Humans have become highly reliant on technology to keep us safe. But when we go off the grid, as our reporter recently did, there can be grave risks.
513606
Someday your silicon solar panels may not have to be pure bloods, if CaliSolar can perfect how it isolates impurities.
93326
Scientists are developing clothing embedded with sensors which they say will be able to monitor your health.
133571
Plus: Putting a face on technology could improve our interaction with hi-tech gadgets.
17774
"Energy was too cheap for people to take it seriously, but with the rise in energy costs and the IPCC report people see that they have to look for other solutions now"  The sun reflects from the Sonnenschiff, or Solar Ship, community center in Freiburg, southern Germany, on May 18, 2007. via The South Mississippi Sun Herald
580636
By Traci Watson  NASA is scrambling to develop alternate ways to fold up a balky solar panel that, in its current position, would halt construction of the International Space Station.
746288
Signs suggest solar power might be reaching a tipping point.
350814
Physicists have dreamt about it for decades: harnessing the fusion process that powers the sun to make clean, safe and limitless energy.Comment
451126
Scientists have invented the first spray-on plastic that can turn the sun's infrared rays into electricity.
569878
Blog: Envision Solar seeks to put solar panels on the roofs of parking structures, but financing could prove to be tricky.
39980
Three decades after former U.S. President Jimmy Carter experimented with solar panels on the White House roof, grim U.N. warnings about climate change may kick-start wider global use of renewable energy.
318674
NASA engineers pondered how best to fix a tear in space shuttle Atlantis' heat shield while a new pair of electricity-generating solar panels were unfurled on the International Space Station on Tuesday.
316464
(InfoWorld) - Taiwan's textile industry is working more closely with the island's vaunted IT sector to use technologies such as RFID (radio frequency identification) and solar panels in clothing. The Taiwan Textile Research Institute opened an exhibition Friday to show ideas that it expects to produce for department stores in the next few years. Some of the clothes addressed e-health. They use sensors to collect data such as a heart rate, blood pressure and body temperature, and then RFID technologies to send the data to servers in hospitals where doctors can track the patients' health. The institute also showed a leather jacket with 1-inch flexible solar panels sewn into the back, providing enough electricity to power a digital music player. A system could be designed that's powerful enough to run a laptop computer, but it would take a lot more solar panels -- and therefore a very big jacket, said Chang Cheng-tung, deputy chief of system integration at the institute. Jackets with solar panels will likely be in mass production next year, he said.
205569
Solar installers look to sunny Colorado for new projects.
18129
Aussie solar thermal specialist negotiating with utilities for big solar plants