Now LG, don’t go disappointing me… LG is so confident in its claim to the “world’s biggest” OLED TV (technically true for now, until it’s upstaged) that it’s giving the world a peek just ahead of the Consumer Electronics Show next month. The svelte, 55-inch beauty is just shy of 0.2-inches thick (5mm) and boasts […]
Sourcemap: Rattle (and tattle on) those supply chains
Where do your gadgets really come from? The folks behind Sourcemap, a crowdsourced, open source project, hope to answer that question by cataloging where the components that make up our devices originate. It’s an effort to provide a measure of supply chain transparency, according to project founder Leo Bonanni (see his Greener Gadgets 2010 talk […]
CES 2011 Green Watch: Green Plug debuts smart power supply tech
Green Plug is paving the way for smarter, more efficient power supplies and chargers with its new Green Power Processor (GPP). The startup is billing the tiny, system-on-chip (SoC) as a solution to analog power supplies that draw a constant amount of power regardless of whether the electronics make the best use of all that […]
