Solar-powered laptop charger on display at CES
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A new company NRG Dock shows off a general-purpose solar panel and battery to power electronics.
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It's being called second only to CES as the most important consumer electronics show in America. BetaNews' Ed Oswald is on the floor of DigitalLife 2007 in New York City, and he's sending back fresh photos as the show goes on. See Palm's Treo Centro 500v, HP's and VoodooPC's Blackbird 002, and the big push for HD DVD.
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3M is demonstrates a prototype of such a device at this year's International Consumer Electronics Show.
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Televisions big enough to cover living-room walls and postage stamp-sized hard drives for playing movies on mobile phones were among the gadgets unveiled as the year's big U.S. electronics show kicked off on Wednesday.
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We don't need no stinking grid--at least not all the time. These devices use the elements to charge your laptop, cell phone, and music player.
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Sun has a laudable vision of the future of utility computing, where organisations with extra processing power can sell it back to a computing grid in the same manner that homes with solar panels can sell power back to the electrical power grid.
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OLPC is experimenting with bovine-generated electricity for its low-cost XO laptop...seriously.
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Company is working on flexible display technologies.
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Exotic materials and cheaper substrates could lead to better photovoltaics.
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Madness over Macworld gathers momentum So, CES packs up for another year and everyone takes a break from the full-on, week-long frenzy. However, another big event is about to steal the spotlight as Apple is expected to announce an ultra-slim laptop at its annual show on Tuesday.â¦
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On Saturday evening, it's "Lights out San Francisco," where people will voluntary turn off lights for an hour. The aim is to raise awareness of light pollution and the energy wasted by lights left on.            Presented By     From Dell? Home!      &nbsp;&nbsp;The new Dell? Inspiron? 1520 notebook with hi-def widescreen and long-range wireless for only $799. Add mobile broadband for $150. Limited time offer. Click here. www.dell.com    Ads by Pheedo
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(InfoWorld) - Fujitsu has made progress in its development of flexible, paper-thin displays that consume very little power. The company unveiled its latest prototype on Tuesday, a 7.8-inch panel that can display up to 4,096 colors. The display, which is the same size as a sheet of A5 paper, was built into a thin case in the form of an electronic book reader. It was on display at the Ceatec show, which opened on Tuesday. The e-book reader was rigid, but the flexibility of the displays could offer an advantage in other types of applications. Fujitsu offered the example of an electronic advertising panel that could curve around the top of a train or subway car. The display area of the prototype shown at Ceatec was about four times as large as that ofÂ another prototype Fujitsu showedÂ in the middle of last year. The e-book reader was deceptively light, weighing only 180 grams -- much less than many visitors to Fujitsu's booth expected before they took it in their hands. Its light weight comes largely from the use of a plastic substrate for the display, rather than a glass substrate like those used for LCD (liquid crystal display) panels. Pages could be turned with the push of a button. The screen refreshes in several sweeps, from left to right, and the time taken to redraw the image depends on its complexity and the number of colors, said Fumiyuki Hashimoto, a Fujitsu spokesman. A complex image takes around 4 seconds to refresh, while a simpler, eight-color image can be drawn in about a second, he said. The prototype e-book reader included a USB-connector and an SD memory card slot. Fujitsu is still developing the display and doesn't have any commercialization plans at present. The prototype has one other major advantage over existing panels -- it doesn't require constant power to keep the image on the display. That means portable products can be made to have a much longer battery life.
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Today, notebook computers are being used in an increasing number of applications in both consumer and commercial environments.  This paper  discusses the technologies necessary to meet the demands of these applications and what Fujitsu is doing to meet the varied display requirements of its customers.
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A new jacket with built-in solar modules can charge the batteries of mobile devices while on the go.
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Solar Data Centers, a Web-hosting company, plans to power its servers on electricity generated by solar panels.
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New at CES: the 45-millimeter LG60 LCD, an ultramobile PC, and mobile broadcasting device.
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Methanol-powered processing CES Toshiba didn't make much of a fuss about its UMPC, claiming the smooth-cornered handheld PC was intended to demo technologies the company develops to potential manufacturer customers. One such technology: fuel cells.â¦