Device made from flexible, inexpensive materials could power large-area electronics, wearables, medical devices, and more. Imagine a world where smartphones, laptops, wearables, and other electronics are powered without batteries. Researchers from MIT…
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Researchers have come up with a new solution to alleviate the environmental burden of discarded electronics
Portable electronics users tend to upgrade their devices frequently as new technologies offering more functionality and more convenience become available. A report published by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 2012 showed…
Georgia Tech’s “instant inkjet circuits” Technique makes Circuit protoype creation inexpensive
Researchers from Georgia Tech, the University of Tokyo and Microsoft Research have developed a novel method to rapidly and cheaply make electrical circuits by printing them with commodity inkjet printers and off-the-shelf…
Power-harvesting Device for charging Mobile devices by converting stray wireless signals into electricity.
Researchers at Duke University have designed a power-harvesting device which can charge the mobile devices by converting the stray wireless signals into electricity. Energy conversion rate of this device is comparable to…