PORTLAND, Ore.—Scientists have discovered a way to genetically engineer a living virus to be piezoelectric, enabling self-assembling arrays of them to produce enough electricity to power small electro ...
EnOcean creates new
Energy harvesting wireless technology education program
Micropelt raises funds to expand
Energy harvest work
EAsic claims to enable 3X increase in
Energy efficiency for supercomputer
A team from Riga Technical University, Latvia has designed a "Human Motion
Energy Harvester for Wearable Applications". The design consists of a jacket with an electrical generator. The team ...
ISO/IEC wireless standard optimised for ultra-low power consumption and
Energy harvesting
LONDON – EnOcean GmbH, a building automation company that uses
Energy harvesting and wireless control, has appointed Matthias Poppel as chief operation officer (COO). Poppel was previously European di ...
Free Webinar: New 32-bit processor for entry-level and
Energy-efficient app
Energy Micro EFM32 Gecko MCU ideal for e-paper displays
SAN JOSE, Calif.—Nonvolatile ferroelectric random access memory (FRAM) vendor Ramtron International Corp. launched a low-
Energy FRAM chip Tuesday (March 27) at the DESIGN West event here.The FM25e64 e ...
Heliatek opens organic PV factory, plans second plant
Production of
Energy from the difference between salt water and fresh water is most convenient near the oceans, but now, using an ammonium bicarbonate salt solution, researchers can combine bacterial
An alternative fuels expert firmly believes he can go coast-to-coast on l0 gallons of gasoline or less. His attempts will be March 3-8, 2012, and in 2013.
New research points to two important roles for bacteria that live in the underground fungal gardens of leafcutter ants: they help decompose leaves that ants bring to the gardens and play a major role
Rebuilding America: Design moves front and center in manufacturing debate
Rebuilding America: Design moves front and center in manufacturing debate
THE VICTORIAN government has announced a $250,000 grant to Daintree Networks to develop a new lighting control system that could slash lighting
Energy use by up to 80 percent.
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Energy-harvesting-evaluation-platform
Bluetooth low
Energy enabled iPhone applications for mobile health
The fourth version of the popular Bluetooth technology is first seen on the iPhone 4S. If you asked any user, most of them would be happy with Bluetooth 2.0.
Smart appliance shipments to exceed 24 Million units by 2017, but high prices remain a barrier
Multi-standard transceiver for sensor networks sets record for low power
Researchers have discovered the means by which a polymer known as PVDF enables capacitors to store and release large amounts of
Energy quickly. Their findings could lead to much more powerful and effi
Cree to hold 'iconathon' to hone
Energy-efficiency logo
SAN FRANCISCO – Medical electronics researchers showed advances in self-propelled implants and body area networks at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference.Stanford researchers described tw ...
Never get stranded with a dead cell phone again. A promising new technology called Power Felt, a thermoelectric device that converts body heat into an electrical current, soon could create enough juic
Bacteria normally found 30 kilometers above Earth have been identified as highly efficient generators of electricity. Bacillus stratosphericus -- a microbe commonly found in high concentrations in the
Scientists have created a "designer slime" that can double the electrical output of existing microbial fuel cells. Bacillus stratosphericus -- a microbe commonly found in high concentrations
RFID tags are becoming ubiquitous, shops, warehouses, libraries and others use them for stock and inventory control and to reduce the risk of theft. Now, a team in Dubai has developed the concept of a
RESEARCHERS at MIT claim liquid batteries could be useful as a long-life and low-cost solution for smoothing out the erratic power supplies of renewable
Energy sources.
A drastic switch to low carbon-emitting technologies, such as wind and hydroelectric power, may not yield a reduction in global warming until the latter part of this century, new research suggests. Fu
The electrostatic motor, used more than 200 years ago by Benjamin Franklin to rotisserie a turkey, is making a comeback in a promising new design for motors that is light, soft, and operates without e
Researchers are using new combinations of nano-materials to produce advances in infrared photodetection technology.
Seismic risk at the Fukushima nuclear plant increased after the magnitude 9 earthquake that hit Japan last March, scientists report. The new study, which uses data from over 6,000 earthquakes, shows t
Carbon nanotubes and graphene consist of just a couple of layers of carbon atoms, but they are lighter than aluminium, stronger than steel and can bend like spring-coils. Physicists have been studying
SAN FRANCISCO—Solar equipment maker
Energy Conversion Devices Inc. (ECD) said Tuesday (Feb. 14) it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and announced plans to sell several assets, including its ...
Researchers in California report that they have significantly enhanced polymer solar cells' performance by building a device with a new "tandem" structure that combines multiple cells with d
Top-heavy structures are more likely to maintain their balance while hovering in the air than are those that bear a lower center of gravity, researchers have found. Their findings are counter to commo
Microscopic channels of gold nanoparticles have the ability to transmit electromagnetic
Energy that starts as light and propagates via "dark plasmons," according to researchers.
Researchers have built the smallest room-temperature nanolaser to date, as well as an even more startling device: a highly efficient, "thresholdless" laser that funnels all its photons into
A technique for creating a new molecule that structurally and chemically replicates the active part of the molybdenite catalyst paves the way for developing catalytic materials that can serve as effec
Rebuilding America: Gears of U.S. manufacturing effort begin to turn
EnergyTREND, a research division of TrendForce, claims production of lithium polymer battery cells will increase by 33 percent in 2012.
A group of high school students designed, built and tested a low-cost device that monitors the buildup of electrical charge in clouds. A network of such field mill devices could be used to learn more
In a study of the harsh but beautiful White Sands National Monument in New Mexico, researchers have uncovered a unifying mechanism to explain dune patterns. The new work represents a contribution to b
Pulsars are among the most exotic celestial bodies known. They have diameters of about 20 kilometers, but at the same time roughly the mass of our sun. A sugar-cube sized piece of its ultra-compact ma
Aerospace engineers have developed a prototype device that could power a pacemaker using a source that is surprisingly close to the heart of the matter: vibrations in the chest cavity that are due mai
Two years ago, scientists released a study claiming that inconsistencies between satellite observations of Earth's heat and measurements of ocean heating amounted to evidence of "missing
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ITU approves G3-PLC as a new worldwide smart grid standard
Prepaid meter reference design enables secure
Energy credit purchase through NFC