Battery-Free Cell Phone

by admin - 2017-07-16 ( education / tech / phones ) [html version]

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: First battery-free cellphone makes calls by harvesting ambient power