Researchers discover battery-free technology which harvests power from radio and Wi-Fi signals for low-powered devices
Researchers discover battery-free technology which harvests power from radio and Wi-Fi signals for low-powered devices
Applications would result in less dependency on batteries in low-powered devices
This just in, scientists unveil "a loop of wire"
I keed, I keed. Glad to see materials science improving technologies we have for new applications.
54Tesla, himself, is giving a gentle thumbs up from his grave.
37Ooooohhh can't wait to see the idiotic conspiracy theories about this...
Also, just more shit for crystal mommies with no scientific literacy to use to try to explain "energy" to me.
9Crystal mommies 💀🤣💀🤣💀🤣
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Isn't this similar to principle behind The Great Seal Bug? I thought we knew blasting RF at a specific receiver can create energy.
8Yeah, you can also find "crystal radio" kits --- radio receivers that use only the received RF to produce sound (no external power source).
8The article talks a lot about their rectifier and im guessing that's where the 'breakthrough' is, but still I feel this is like too many of these articles where its a lot of hype for a little progress.
4This is also how passive RFID tags work, the tag harvests just enough energy from the scanning frequency to boot up a microchip and respond with its ID number.
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Cool, I can charge my car in just 2,680,000 years.
7Did they discover it in online news articles from 6 years ago?
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4Wonder if this can be used to power ZigBee smart sensors. My current battery ones last about 2 years on a coin cell
3That's really cool.
3Do you need to hazardously close to a tower for good stability? Fascinating for the future of wireless power!
2It's almost certainly going to be milliamps or microamps unless you're inches from something. This isn't for cellphones and the like but for remote sensors and the like. I also bet they'll at least have to have a capacitor to store up extra charge for chirping back only sometimes.
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