Panels

Professor Shanhui Fan and postdoctoral scholar Wei Li with a prototype device used to test a system that passively cools a building and generates electricity from solar

Energy

Hybrid rooftop device to harvest solar energy and passively cool buildings at the same time

Researchers have paired a cooling system that draws thermal heat from a building and beams it into space with a solar panel, designing a system with the same rooftop footprint that ccould generate electricity and passively cool a building at the same time.

The Néphélios, the world's first solar powered airship

Aircraft

Solar blimp: Projet Sol'r to take on the English Channel

Projet Sol'r volunteers and engineers are putting the final touches to the world's first solar powered airship prior to an attempted Channel crossing

Home Entertainment

LG HD 3D monitor with twice the brightness of existing 3D LCD panels

LG has announced a full HD 23-inch 3D LCD panel with twice the brightness of conventional 3D LCD panels.The new 3D LCD embeds most of the 3D technologies directly into the panel, enabling 3D viewing with low-priced polarized glasses.

Panasonic's prototype 8.8mm thin 50-inch plasma

Home Entertainment

Panasonic shows slimline prototype plasmas

Panasonic is demonstrating two 50-inch prototype plasma displays that employ improved NeoPDP panels to deliver triple luminance efficiency and reduced power consumption in a panel that measures just 8.8mm (around 1/3 of an inch) thick.