Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto.

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Katherine Martinko is an expert in sustainable living. She holds a degree in English Literature and History from the University of Toronto. Dutch Legos fan Marcel Steeman, a regional councilor in the ...

French renewable energy provider Ekwateur is offering a plug-in solar kit for balconies and gardens that is claimed to produce between 340 kWh and 500 kWh per year, depending on solar radiation levels ...