MIT crafts wireless electricity
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Blog: How many scientists does it take to turn on a lightbulb?
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Chip maker will being testing the emerging, high-speed wireless technology.
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According to an article in this month's Science Journal, researchers at Simon Frasier University in British Columbia have developed a new technology to generate electricity from the natural motion of walking. Assistant professor of kinesiology Max Donelan and other team members say their biomechanical energy harvester promises to revolutionize the way people charge the batteries that power all sorts of mobile devices, like laptops, cell phones, and emergency rescue gear.
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Photovoltaics made of nanowires could power small devices and lead to cheaper solar panels.
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Physicist Marin Soljacic is working toward a world of wireless electricity.
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Technology that can converge different wireless gadgets into a single device is discussed at a conference.
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Nanowires put more power in smaller packages, researcher reports.
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Bluetooth -- a short-range wireless technology -- is finally coming of age.
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Researchers have developed an electrical generator mounted on the knee that turns walks into watts.
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A new inkjet-printed technology enables a different kind of wireless connectivity between devices.
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Measuring the minute amount of energy needed to flip the magnetic orientation of a single atom brings researchers closer to making devices that represent bits of information with just a few atoms.
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Prototype 90-nanometer radio chip promises more power than current CMOS technology.
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MIT researchers produce a tiny water-skimming robot prototype they think could monitor water supplies for toxins or skim contaminants off the top of water.
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Scientists develop a device thousands of times smaller than a human hair that can turn radio waves into sound.
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Device boosts prospects for inexpensive quantum cryptography and quantum computing.
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German researchers claim they have figured out a way to use body heat to generate power that could eventually run mobile devices.
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Researchers are working on autonomous robots that eat to produce energy. The problem right now is that batteries are much better. By Lakshmi Sandhana.