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“Invisible” Styled Solar Panels Are A Thing Thanks To Solar City & Startups

Prateek Jose   • 3 min read

Who says solar panels need to be ugly and clunky? Elon Musk and other entrepreneurs are making renewable energy stylish and sexy with these green-energy materials that look like standard building supplies such as tile, slate, glass, and stone.

SnapMunk WTF: Julian Assange, DeepMind AI, Fusion Reactors, Face Recognition

SnapMunk   • < 1 min read

Welcome to WTF, the new weekly tech news web series from SnapMunk. Join Eric & Devin as they take you through this week’s biggest stories.

This Luxury Tent Goes Up Anywhere And Only Costs $100K

Devin Greene   • 3 min read

The Autonomous Tent Co makes semi-permanent structures that can be disassembled without leaving a trace. Two days to build, $100K … and you’ve got a kind of glamping that puts a cabin in the woods to shame.

Water-Cleaning Energy-Generating Smart Bricks: A Dream Tenant For Smart Homes

Benjamin Mann   • 3 min read

Smart bricks may be the smartest future of the smart home market, thanks to a team of scientists out of the University of the West of England. These “living” bricks will do things like clean water, reclaim phosphate, generate electricity and facilitate the production of new detergents.

10 Minutes with Robin Chase, Co-Founder of Zipcar, Buzzcar & Veniam

Benjamin Mann   • 8 min read

Robin Chase, co-founder of Zipcar, Buzzcar and Veniam – and obviously, a beacon of transportation technology – talks to us about who she is, why she is, and where everything is headed.

What’s The Startup Status In Renewable Energy?

Daniel A. Guttenberg   • 5 min read

Here’s what’s going on with clean, renewable energy when it comes to startups in the world of geothermal, solar, wind, and hydropower. You know – earth, sun wind, and water – the most renewable resources around.

LEAOS, The First Self-Sufficient Solar Panel eBike

Charles Costa   • 3 min read

This electric bike with integrated solar panels comes from Leaos Solar, winner of a 2015 Red Dot Product Design Award. With a top speed of either 25 km/hr or 45 km/hr (depending on the model), automatic and manual transmission, and high performance design, this eBike is generating some buzz. The question is whether it will pay off with funding.

Vegas Street Lights To Be Powered by Pedestrian Footsteps

Prateek Jose   • 3 min read

Startup EnGoPlanet has created street lights that can run on solar energy and kinetic energy, the kind created by people walking. They may be a perfect solution for pedestrian-friendly cities like Las Vegas, saving energy and dollars, while also offering unique features like seating areas and smartphone charging stations.

Startup Funding Roundup – 3/6/15

SnapMunk   • 3 min read

It has been yet another impressive week for entrepreneurs raising financial funding to back their endeavors. From mobile app startups […]

Startup Funding Roundup – 2/13/15

SnapMunk   • 3 min read

From a nearly $600 million dollar valuation for a pre-launch startup to investments in sectors like solar and life sciences, […]