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Solar-powered phones still a pipedream, says Nokia

...the research project's blog. According to Nokia, the biggest challenge for solar-powered mobiles is the limited space on mobiles for solar panels - which... Read more

4 January, 2012 by Natasha Lomas

Photos: The solar-powered internet cafés connecting rural Africa

Housed in old shipping containers, the solar-powered internet cafés use low-power thin-client devices linked to a... Read more

5 July, 2011 by Tim Ferguson
Position Aware Node Provisioning for <endeca_term>Solar Powered</endeca_term> Wireless Mesh Networks

Position Aware Node Provisioning for Solar Powered Wireless Mesh Networks

Solar powered wireless mesh nodes must be provisioned with a solar panel and... Read more

1 June, 2010
Cool: On Coverage With <endeca_term>Solar-Powered</endeca_term> Sensors

Cool: On Coverage With Solar-Powered Sensors

...the dynamic node activation schedule for the utility based coverage problem in solar-powered wireless sensor networks. They assume that the utility achieved by a... Read more

12 May, 2011
Minera Yanacocha: Using a <endeca_term>Solar-Powered</endeca_term>, Wireless Network to Improve Safety, Efficiency and Profitability

Minera Yanacocha: Using a Solar-Powered, Wireless Network to Improve Safety, Efficiency and Profitability

...equipment installed at various points in the field of operation, including mobile solar-powered access points and features a centralized system that enables the management... Read more

16 June, 2010

Plane completes 17-hour flight without fuel

A solar-powered plane has completed the first leg of a journey towards Morocco... Read more

28 May, 2012
Future bike designs turn to eco-awareness

Future bike designs turn to eco-awareness

...with everything from bikes that double as shopping carts to folding bikes, solar-powered electric cycles and bikes made from recycled wood. A few of... Read more

4 October, 2010 by Leslie Katz
Juno soars on five-year mission to Jupiter

Juno soars on five-year mission to Jupiter

...5 rocket roared to life on Friday and successfully launched Nasa's solar-powered Juno space probe on a five-year voyage to Jupiter. Nasa... Read more

8 August, 2011 by William Harwood

Radio amateurs prep launch of tiny FUNcube satellite

...it will be "nearly circular" and mostly sun-synchronous, so the largely solar-powered device will be illuminated almost all the time. There are some... Read more

4 January, 2012 by David Meyer

Nasa's Curiosity rover heads off to Mars

...moments after that, at 3:46pm, the Mars Science Laboratory and its solar-powered interplanetary cruise stage separated from the Centaur, completing the launch phase... Read more

27 November, 2011 by William Harwood

China blasts unmanned Shenzhou-8 capsule into orbit

...as a means of transport between the Earth and other spacecraft."The solar-powered Tiangong-1 is a prototype space station core module that measures... Read more

1 November, 2011 by William Harwood

iPads come to Sainsbury's shopping trolleys: It's a supermarket sweep for Apple

...engrossed shoppers of their proximity to other trolleys, shoppers and obstacles. A solar-powered battery on the trolley powers the sensors and keeps the iPad... Read more

30 August, 2011 by Shelley Portet

Will Samsung buy HP's PC division?

Can Hewlett-Packard's $41 billion Personal Systems Group (PSG) stand on its own two feet? If not, who would buy it?... Read more

22 August, 2011

Photos: iPad accessories, Android apps for business and Sony's S1 and S2 tablets

...s Zubabox internet cafés. Computer Aid International has delivered three of these solar-powered cyber cafés housed in old shipping containers so far and is... Read more

2 August, 2011 by silicon.com staff

Nasa preps Juno craft for five-year mission to Jupiter

...Nasa is preparing its solar-powered Juno spacecraft for launch on a five-year voyage to Jupiter... Read more

28 July, 2011 by William Harwood

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