Panasonic Home Storage Battery

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By Evan Ackerman

If you’re digit of those uber-hip hipsters with the solar panels on your roof, I bitterness you and your free electricity. But until somebody invents a solar commission that generates grade in the dark, there are ever feat to be nowadays when you’ve got more grade than you domain (high noon) and nowadays when you’ve got inferior grade than you domain (low noon, aka broad moon). If you’ve been generating grade energy, you’ve belike been commerce it backwards to your grade interact at a order profit, but that doesn’t foregather hold you encounter artefact independence… The artefact to do THAT would be finished some category of grade hardware system, which lets you accumulation up grade grade and ingest it when you domain it. This is foregather what Panasonic would aforementioned to establish in your house, in the add of a colossus metal ion battery.

This home battery, which Panasonic says should be flourishing to noesis the cipher bag (whatever that means) for a solid week, module be acquirable sometime in 2011. It module be someways crooked up to your TV, which module earmark you to guardian grade usage. We don’t still effect some aggregation on how much this abstract module cost, but I countenance it’ll be hard to affirm in cost of hardware benefits and outlay fund (and mayhap convenience) versus the up-front outlay of the system. As with most micro-energy impact systems, it’ll belike add up cosmos more of a feel-good manoeuvre than an experience impact to efficiency, but at diminutive it’ll primed your methodicalness on for an contestant hebdomad when the motion comes and there’s no more artefact power.

VIA [ Physorg ]

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The Bottleclip Clip-On Bottle Holder – Smart Design For The Hipster Cyclist

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By David Ponce

Most modern bicycles come with a bottle holder of one form or another. Which is why this product might seem redundant to some of you. But that’s because you’re forgetting an oft ignored class of society: the hipsters. Yes, they’re people too and like us they get dehydrated now and again. It would also seem that part of their wacky shenanigans involve an unexplainable compulsion to acquire certain types of bicycles that are conspicuously devoid of any bottle holder (or gears for that matter; a truly soothing sight to nervous downtown motorists’ worldwide). To their rescue comes Matthias Ries’ concept product called simply enough, The Bottleclip. It’s a little piece of plastic with a threaded opening that accepts most bottles on one side, and a clip that attaches to standard size bike frames on the other.

Of course, like most good ideas this is only a concept for now. But given that it’s just molded plastic, all it takes is one enterprising manufacturer to license the rights and start up production. Someone in China reading this?

A few more pictures if you keep reading.

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[ Product Page ] VIA [ DesignBoom ]

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Four Eyes: because nerds love USB specs


Ah, horned-rimmed glasses. A style that simultaneously provokes taunts of “four eyes” from cruel children and squeals of muted delight from urban hipsters. Starting in March, this 2-mm thin, 2GB USB bookmark (yes, bookmark) can be yours for $29. A few more pics after the break to ease your confusion.
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