A decentralized, solar-powered energy cloud of wireless charging and shared storage should be the next internet-scale ...

As we continue to look ahead to the new year, here is our editor Richard Wilson’s suggestion for five technologies to watch in 2009… Picocells are the mini indoor basestations which will be used to ...

Scientists are working on harvesting WiFi signals now, to convert them into usable energy. That means we could power our electronics wirelessly, by simply being within the range of a WiFi. Our ...

Energy harvesting is all the rage at the moment. I'd like devices that convert waste energy into electricity. If I could, I would fill my house with all sorts of high-tech Rube Goldberg-esque machines ...

[Photo: Georgia Tech] These days, it seems like there are more electromagnetic signals in the air than oxygen, what with television, radio, 4G, Wi-Fi, and satellites all streaming wirelessly around us ...

While it's become a necessity of modern life, Wi-Fi is also an energy hog, draining the batteries of all those connected devices surrounding us. That may change with the recent demonstration by ...

A Canadian company has just announced a new thermostat with built-in Wi-Fi, with the hopes that more homeowners will program their thermostats and reduce energy costs. Ecobee says it created its Smart ...

I am pretty nutty when it comes to energy efficiency. It upsets me to know that if the morons who built my house had used the latest information available at the time, my house would require almost no ...

Imagine satellites in space, perpetually powered by invisible beams of energy transmitted from Earth. This could soon be a reality with the emergence of wireless power beaming technology. This ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — If you are contemplating a new Wi-Fi enabled thermostat, Austin Energy has added another option that can save you some money. Honeywell Inc. has been added to the utility company’s ...