Can Human Blood energize iPods and Cellphones?

this story intrigued meas how a body reaction and movement can generate electricity." This can be a possibility as the this body movement, beating of a human heart or simply the blood flow can be converted into electricity using nanowires made up of zinc oxide. Zinc-oxide...

Hamster-Powered Generator? Why Not

This might change the world of nanotechnology as a hamster can power a nanogenerator out of the hamster running on the treadmill."They are manufacturing generators out of piezoelectric nanowires. The latest model in fact consists of zinc-oxide nanowires connected to one...

Mosquito: Blueprint for a Painess Needle

Too clever by half! Scientists are developing a microneedle based on the proboscis of the female mosquito. The goal: painless injections. The difficulty lies in creating a needle that's thin enough to painessly...

Dance, Robots, Dance: Automated Music Personality

One problem with being a carbon-based lifeform is the imprecision of our dance moves, and our inability to provide our own lighting effects. However, that is now no longer an issue, as robots have been...

Jostling shirt fabric may power iPods and such

With this technology, a pair of young lovers embracing on a cliff during a romantic windstorm could power the dead car battery that stranded them there in the first place."BOSTON (AP) — Someday, your shirt might...

Hear This! Converting Waste Heat Into Electric Power :: Oblate Spheroid

"It sounds like magic but it is really science. The University of Utah Physics Department has developed a way for devices to take wasted heat derived from everyday processes and through converting the heat to...

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