One of the most promising aspects of future technologies are smart clothes, so called because they will be made up of intelligent fibers. These can be either high-resistance materials, such as Kevlar, or advanced polymers. But a group of experts has now created an even more interesting option, in the form of a very f... |
5 July 2010
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A new design, devised by Haim Abramovich, a developer at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel, may hold the key to harnessing the power of moving vehicles to create electricity, he says. Piezoelectric crystals could be used to absorb heavy traffic and convert a 1 kilometer stretch of highway i... |
11 December 2008
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The East Japan Railway Company (JR East) has announced that it will outfit the floor of its Tokyo railway station with piezoelectric devices that have the capacity to draw electricity from the steps of those passing in front of ticket booths. For now, the experiment will be fairly limited, covering a small area, but,... |
5 December 2008
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Some of you may recall that Apple shook hands with Nike in 2006 to roll out the Nike+iPod Sports Kit, a device which measures and records the distance and pace of a person walking or running through a transmitter that is mounted in the shoe and a receiver that connects to the iPod. The two companies have now announce... |
5 March 2008
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Researchers from Carnegie Institution have created a new piezoelectric material that may reduce fabrication costs and deliver high performance pierzoelectrics. Piezoelectrics are materials that have the ability to convert mechanical oscillation into electrical current, and vice versa. On Earth, piezoelectric material... |
31 January 2008
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The IMEC (Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre), a microelectronics research facility on the outskirts of Leuven, Belgium, created a new micro-device that can harvest energy from mechanical vibrations, by using micromachining technology.They even built a model that could be used to optimize the device during desi... |
23 June 2007
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That's exactly what a team of scientists observed in an experiment and then transformed into a practical device. The gadget can turn heat into sound and then into electricity and is very promising as an effective method of transforming waste heat into electricity, harnessing solar energy and cooling computers a... |
4 June 2007
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