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IoT-ize Your Old Gadgets With a Mechanical Hijacking Device

Cars That Think

But doing so is wasteful, whereas the MHD potentially gives a smart new life to many old things. But for the vast majority of people, a DIY approach isn't practical, and buying something that works out of the box and comes with a friendly app seems like it would be worth a cost premium.

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Looking to get in a hybrid for cheap? Used Toyota Prius 1.5 HSD 2004-2009 Review

Green Car Congress

It was time to buy our first car. I started to read up on the Prius and started looking at cars to buy in a week’s time, so the paperwork would be ready for my wife to use the car from the following week. I was nervous as this was the first time that I was buying a car, so the experience was new to me. He was surprised!

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Energy Harvesting for Wearable Technology Steps Up

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In the future, DIY may not even be necessary. If I measure your heartbeat in picoseconds, that would be a waste because your heart doesn’t beat that quickly,” he says. Kinefox is open source, with files published on GitHub. For one project, “we asked medical doctors, ‘How much data do you need?’ They said, ‘We don’t know.

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Green Cars Part 4- Compressed Air

DIY Electric Car

Conventional cars work by exploding fuel and air in a chamber to exert force on the pistons, but what if rather than using an explosion to provide that pressure on the piston, you just stored your ‘fuel’ at a constant high pressure. That’s the concept behind the air car , and it looks like a pretty promising technology.

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Solar Energy - A Way To Cut Down On High Energy Costs

DIY Electric Car

Solar energy , the renewable energy source which has been in news for the last several years has made quiet inroads into many homes, factories, businesses, into our cars and appliances and much more. But, yet it is a rather misunderstood energy. It was expensive to commercially exploit solar energy few decades ago.

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Lotus and Harmon partner up to add sound to hybrids

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For drivers that just cant do without the sound of internal combustion, a separate system inside the car can pipe in a new soundtrack thats meant to mimic the rising and falling sounds of an engine. The rich sounds of our in-car systems will be complemented by this technology, opening new opportunities for deployment and enjoyment." "The

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Electric Vehicles Open-up New Business Opportunities

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Electric two-wheelers, rickshaws, cars, etc. Jezza Motors – E-Rickshaw manufacturer Ather Energy – Electric Scooter manufacturer Strom Motor s – Electric Car manufacturer. The electric car from Strom Motors, the Strom R3 is a three-wheel electric car. Along with electric cars.