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Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) wants everyone to exploit solar plates to produce electricity power. And the company has announced today that it is investing around $75 million to facilitate to more than 3,000 of them setup solar plates on their tops.

"Like everything covering the world by the millions and constantly changing shape, mobile phones are evolving. And the smaller, smarter species have taken over from the clumsy giants of yesteryear. Once upon a time Motorola ruled over a world of giant bricks. Then, Nokia dominated a dumbphone world, a rich carpet of thousands of different charging cables foresting the floor near electrical outlets, blowing away the ancient voiceboxes with texts and LCD screens and lots of other things which we swear sounded modern back then. But in 2012 it's the time of the smartphone, and Samsung have finally wrestled the crown away from the Finnish giant."

"Point-and-click adventure Lume started life as a PC game, which developers State of Play have now successfully ported over to iOS. In the game you play Lumi, a little girl who visits her grandfather only to find him missing and all the electricity cut from his house. The only clue is a note on the door, which informs Lumi that he intends to power his home using his inventions, but has had a few problems along the way. He suggests Lumi try to help him, but she'll need to solve some puzzles in order to do so."

Western car companies have extensive since popular fuel-sipping diesels over plug-in electrical automobiles, but that's all about to modify with new EV-focused applications from two of Germany's greatest manufacturers:

"Small in size, big on power: New microbatteries a boost for electronics"