Battery-free Cell Phone

by bill - 2017-07-16 02:57:00 ( in education, tech, phones) [php version] rebuild

Cool! This would (eventually) remove the need for environment-destroying battery factories

"We've built what we believe is the first functioning cellphone that consumes almost zero power," said co-author Shyam Gollakota, an associate professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the UW. "To achieve the really, really low power consumption that you need to run a phone by harvesting energy from the environment, we had to fundamentally rethink how these devices are designed."

Read, listen or watch the rest here: Washington.edu