by Alfred Poor | June 28, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News
I own a classic Timex watch. It cost me less than $30, and it runs for a few years on a single, inexpensive, coin cell battery. The most difficult aspect of living with this watch is finding someone to change the battery for me when it runs down. This watch tells the...
by Bruce Brown | December 11, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
The Laws of Thermodynamics remain in force, and there still ain’t no such thing as a free lunch (TANSTAAFL). But Fujitsu’s recently developed sensor with Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) support may have folks wondering. What Fujitsu is billing in true W. C....
by Jim Ware | October 23, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
Cool new printable thermoelectric generators transform body heat into electricity. Printed on paper or cloth, these generators can power wearable devices such as sensors. Thermoelectric generators are nothing new. Until now, though, they were made of inflexible...
by Kimberly Houston | October 5, 2017 | Fitness, General News, Health
Smartwatches promise to make our lives easier and more efficient, but there’s a drawback. While traditional watches can run for months or even years, the battery life on most smartwatches is typically one to three days. A watch that harvests energy from outside...
by Kimberly Houston | October 4, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
What if every day, ordinary materials could transform human motion into electricity to power lights, electronic devices, and used for other important applications? Physicists at the Clemson Nanomaterials Institute (CNI) at Clemson University have developed the...