By Evan Ackerman
At the end of last month, Nokia filed a patent for a “piezoelectric kinetic energy harvester” for mobile phones. If they get it to work, it will enable mobile phones to charge themselves. Brillliant! Why didn’t I think of that?
I’ll tell you why I didn’t think of that. It’s because a “piezoelectric...
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Nokia are looking to file a patent for a mechanism that would allow phone batteries to recharge themselves when out and about by collecting the kinetic energy generated by movement. It'd work like this: the heavier components within a phone...
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By David Ponce
Unveiled on December 15th at the Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change, the Copenhagen Wheel is an MIT project that aims to “to promote cycling by extending the range of distance people can cover and by making the whole riding experience smoother so that even steep inclines are no longer a barrier to...
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By Chris Scott Barr
When you hear the term wristwatch, you generally think of a timepiece that you wear on your wrist. Well someone is looking to change that definition. There isn’t a whole lot of information on his design, but I am going to assume for now that it is only a concept. The...
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