March 8th, 2010, 6:53PM in Technology by Marc LequimeView Comments
This is an interesting concept – Nokia, the dwindling phone maker, are looking for ways to innovate their products in order to overcome problems such as lack of inspiration and continuous lawsuits with Apple. The way they’re trying to come about this is putting pieces in your phone that move about – similar to an accelerometer – and the force of flipping your phone about in your bag and yanking it out of your pocket, etc. could power your phone.
It works like this – the “piezoelectric kinetic energy harvester” – that means the thing that captures the kinetic movements of the phone – will turn the kinetic energy from moving your phone about and regenerate it into electricity – to charge the smaller-than-usual battery.
Not only should this theoretically make the phone a lot lighter, but understandably it’d make the phone charge by going for a jog or running around. Of course, there’s no possible way it could ever overtake charging – it’d never generate quite enough electricity. But it’s an interesting idea to charge your phone for when you’re out of battery in an emergency.
Maybe there’ll be a positive side to putting your phone in a washing machine.
[Nokia Piezoelectric via Engadget]
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