| Surely everyone remembers their first encounter with silly putty. Knead it into a sphere and it becomes a super bouncy ball, hit it hard and...
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| Silicon Labs has announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Energy Micro AS. Based in Oslo, Norway, the late-stage priva...
| Even the best silicon panels collect only about 20% of available solar radiation and they require additional devices to convert the energy t...
| The ZigBee Alliance has launched a new profile that allows wireless devices, such as switches and dimmers, to be powered from energy harvest...
| Location is a fundamental service for mobile computing. Typical GPS receivers, although widely available, consume too much energy to be usef...
| MIT engineers have proposed a new way to improve solar cell performance by using special ‘funnels’ to capture photons. The funnels would be...
| Researchers at MIT have designed a novel device the size of a U.S. quarter that harvests energy from low-frequency vibrations, such as those...
| Power plants and many industrial processes produce heat as a byproduct, as much as up to 50% of the initial energy input may be released as...
| Engineers from around the world are competing for the title of the RL78 Green Energy Challenge Grand Prize winner! Renesas is challenging ev...
| High brightness LEDs and special optics allow street lamps to be spaced up to 50 meters apart -- much wider than is possible with other solu...