Yearly Archives: 2008


Western Digital Hard Drives Go Green

Slashdot has a discussion on Western Digital’s new low-power consumption Caviar GP hard drives – the GP standing for GreenPower. It turns out that not only do the drives save about 10W of power over other hard drives with similar specs, but these drives are some of the quietest hard […]


Solar Plastic?

CNet’s Green Tech blog is reporting on solar company Konarka which has developed what amounts to solar-powered plastic. Flexible solar cells are not new, but this seems to take things a step further in that solar cells would be easily integrated with just about anything plastic. They are not as […]


Wired Wiki’s Airport Security Tips

Wired offers up a Wiki page on how to Fly Through Airport Security. One of the best points listed and something I always do myself is the practice of putting your wallet, keys, phone, watch and belt into your carry on bag. Anything else metal that can be easily removed […]