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  LG, Samsung develop solar-powered mobile phones

• Google invests $US280m into solar projects

  By AAP | 16 June, 2011 09:31

  Google has said it is investing $US280 million ($A265 million) to help finance home solar projects in the internet giant's largest effort yet to promote clean energy.

• Gadgets harvest renewable energy

  By Agam Shah | 09 June, 2010 05:32

  Experiments are under way to harvest free energy through motion and the environment, which could lead to devices such as mobile phones that can be recharged without electricity. One Laptop Per Child has experimented with charging XO laptops through solar power, foot pedal and pull-string. Nokia last week released a kit that draws energy from cycling to recharge phones.

• Samsung to invest $US21 billion in solar cells, LEDs, more

  By Dan Nystedt | 11 May, 2010 15:51

  Samsung Electronics plans to invest a massive amount of money to develop new businesses ranging from green energy to healthcare, such as solar cells and biopharmaceuticals.

• IBM explores cheaper solar cells

  By Joab Jackson | 11 February, 2010 06:52

  IBM has found what it claims to be a less costly way to build solar cells.

• Computer modeling helps build sun-powered stadium

  By Dan Nystedt | 16 July, 2009 04:55

  When the 8th World Games opens in Taiwan on Thursday, the event will inaugurate a bold new stadium designed not only to power, cool and water itself, but also to withstand the tropical island's typhoons and earthquakes.

• PG&E hopes to capture solar power from space by 2016

  By Sharon Gaudin | 15 April, 2009 04:37

  California utility Pacific Gas & Electric Co. is looking to outer space to find a new source of solar power to generate cheaper and cleaner electricity.

• LG, Samsung develop solar-powered mobile phones

  By Martyn Williams | 13 February, 2009 11:56

  LG and Samsung will both unveil next week mobile phones that you definitively won't want to keep in your pocket. They have developed prototype handsets that are recharged by solar panels built into the case.

• LG, Samsung develop solar-powered mobile phones

  By Martyn Williams | 18 February, 2009 10:41

  Throw away your charger for good!