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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Tags: Ackerman, Bust, Cell Phone, Crystals, Eco Friendly, Fridge, Generating Electricity, green energy, Harvester, Kinetic Energy, Laser Pointer, Lazy People, mobile phones, Moving, New Scientist, Nokia, Nokia Phone, Patent, Patents, Phone Calls, power, Tentative Steps, Transitions
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Destined to become a local news hit this week ("Next, something you don't know about hotel room doors could shock your... or get you killed. But now, sports!"), this video of a portly, if happy, man named Barry Wels unlocking a hotel room with what amounts to a weird slim jim is just outrageous...
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Tags: Government Tool, Hamas, Hamas Leader, Happy Man, Heck, Hotel Locks, Hotel Room, Local News, Moving, Pop, Room Doors, Security, Slim Jim, Slim To None, Sports, video, Weird
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Hand-held electronics are marvels of miniaturization. The ones that existed before I was born, even more so. Anyone who played Blip might be interested to know two things. First, despite being titled “The Digital Game”, it was in fact 100% mechanically driven. Second, the game was, as you may have claimed many times, actually...
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Tags: Back Buttons, Blip, Bounces, Circuits, Computer Electronics, Digital Game, Game 100, Gears, Good Folks, Headline, Led Screen, Mad Scientist, Marvels, Mechanical Arm, Moving, Original Tv, Patent, Player Mode, Pong, Retro, Single Player, Swing
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If you look round the many different job sites around the country, one of the most preferred machines that youwill find on those job sites s the slip steer. Why is this? The provision of all of the different skid steer attachments that are built to work with this machine, like the...
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Tags: Agricultural Purposes, Animals, automotive, Avery, Back Breaking Work, Equipment, Farm Tractor, Fashion, Fortune, Hay Bales, Job Site, Job Sites, Moving, Pallets, Provision, Skid Steer, Skid Steer Attachments, Skid Steer Forks, Tools, Versatility
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