Simpatico Homes constructs eco-friendly, modern houses out of factory-built modules. The inspiration? Joseph Eichler. SmartPlanet's Sumi Das takes a tour of a prototype.

New Avenue Homes founder Kevin Casey is rethinking how we live by focusing on multi-generational living. SmartPlanet catches up with Casey on one of his construction projects.

Innovative building technology is one hope for the future in Haiti, where more than 500,000 people still live in temporary camps two years after a devastating earthquake.

IBM's 5 in 5 predictions say harvesting energy from human motion will power homes and ocean power will leap ahead but even dramatic advances will still fill only a portion of our energy needs.

roundup With its redesign, Twitter shows it wants users' experiences to be the same, regardless of where they access "Home." Plus: a new approach to photos, and branded pages, too.

Researchers are looking at the concept of "data furnaces," which they say could offer low-cost home heating in exchange for housing a miniature computer server farm.

The Solar Decathlon 2011 highlights the latest green building technology while using energy-efficient design and solar panels to make net zero-energy homes.

Millions of Canadians will have only cellphone service by the end of the year as they increasingly replace their land-line telephones with cheaper wireless, suggests a new study.

Gigabyte may have done something for people seeking all-in-one PCs, but HP is the one that really smashed into and through expectations with its massive new range of such items.All-in-One systems may not be as cheap as similarly-powered regular desktops, but they do have a higher space efficiency and, ...

The automaker shows a prototype of Nissan Leaf to Home, which uses the electric car's charging port to power a home in blackouts or to reduce peak power.

The report claims the FBI had warrants to search two homes in Long Island, N.Y. early this morning. They searched another in Brooklyn.

Federal agents searched two homes in Long Island, N.Y., and another in Brooklyn early this morning, Fox News reports.