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07-09-2017, 09:17 AM
Researchers create a 'battery-free' mobile phone
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Your future phone may never need to be charged.*
That's the exciting implication of new research out of the University of Washington, where researchers have created a mobile phone prototype that doesn't require a battery to operate.
SEE ALSO: Elon Musk sticks to Twitter bet to build world's biggest lithium-ion battery (http://mashable.com/2017/07/06/tesla-south-australia-contract/)
The astonishingly efficient prototype (http://batteryfreephone.cs.washington.edu/) requires just 3.5 microwatts of juice, and it employs an in**vative approach to avoid the need for a battery cell. Instead, it uses ambient power from radio signals and light — its onboard solar cell is "roughly the size of a ***** of rice" — to transmit a signal back to a base station 50 feet away.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/07/08/battery-free-phone-research/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Your future phone may never need to be charged.*
That's the exciting implication of new research out of the University of Washington, where researchers have created a mobile phone prototype that doesn't require a battery to operate.
SEE ALSO: Elon Musk sticks to Twitter bet to build world's biggest lithium-ion battery (http://mashable.com/2017/07/06/tesla-south-australia-contract/)
The astonishingly efficient prototype (http://batteryfreephone.cs.washington.edu/) requires just 3.5 microwatts of juice, and it employs an in**vative approach to avoid the need for a battery cell. Instead, it uses ambient power from radio signals and light — its onboard solar cell is "roughly the size of a ***** of rice" — to transmit a signal back to a base station 50 feet away.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/07/08/battery-free-phone-research/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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