Blackberry, Kindle team up

Blackberry has partnered with Kindle to compete with the iPad, says Infocera.com.

Blackberry will offer around 4.1 million books for free from Kindle to its avid book readers. Blackberry models which are unveiled after 8520 models will have this new application. These models are Bold 9700, Tour 9630, Curve 8520 and 8900, Storm 9530 and 9550, as well as Bold 9000.

The Kindle application has been released for US customers only. There is a good chance that later it will be provided to customers in other countries also.

Charging gadgets while on the move may soon be possible, as scientists have developed a flexible solar cell that can be built into clothing, states DNA India.

Harry Atwater and his team at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena have made the bendy cell from an array of microwires encased in a clear flexible polymer. It uses just 1% of the expensive silicon needed by a regular solar cell with the same output, and is just 5% of the size.

To begin their invention, the researchers grew a forest of micrometre-wide silicon wires on a silicon base.

On 25 February the Greener Gadget Conference will kick off in New York, writes The Green Street Journal.

At this conference, executives and entrepreneurs of the green industry will discuss the future of a greener life. The conference will also feature up-and-coming inventors and designers who will showcase their green, sustainable products for a group of panellists.

It's a feast of green innovation with ideas ranging from solar camping tents to electricity-generating rocking horses.