What if your window blinds could power your home in addition to shading its rooms? That’s the idea behind SolarGaps’ new solar blinds. These smart blinds designed to track the sun can be controlled ...

Regular window blinds already help people to save electricity – by keeping incoming sunlight from heating a room up, they reduce the need to run an air conditioner. SolarGaps, however, take things a ...

Opening the blinds has never been so helpful. On display here at CES in Las Vegas, SolarGaps turns the actual slats of your window coverings into solar panels. SolarGaps blinds will be smart enough to ...

If you live in an apartment, it’s difficult to have solar panels: Your landlord decides what goes on your roof. But a new design makes solar panels more accessible to those without a roof of their own ...

Opening and closing your blinds is such a trivial process that you may never have thought about automating it, but it can make your home more energy efficient and secure. A new device called the ...

29-year-old electrical maintenance technician Lisa von Benecke hopes to launch her solar-powered blinds in South Africa this year. Von Benecke recently told Rapport she got the idea for the blinds ...

The next big product for green energy might not come from a high-tech laboratory. It could be from a next-door neighbor tinkering in his basement. A Duluth-area man is hoping he’s come up with the ...

ArchDaily Products Blinds / Mosquito Nets / Curtains Solar Cell Powered Window Blind - Fixscreen Solar A solar cell mounted on the front of the box ensures autonomous control of the screen and ...

A new type of window had been developed and tested that produces electricity and simultaneously controls heat and light for indoor comfort. This was done by researchers from the ZIEZO project, led by ...