battery-free mobile phone technology
Interesting news reaches us from sister-site MediaMentalism of new technology being developed by Intel that could lead to the development of mobile phones and other mobile and portable gadgets that don’t need batteries. Intel are working on a series of sensors that can capture energy from the environment.

The sun is an obvious example of where this energy comes from, but other examples that Intel are looking at include the motion of a trackball on a mobile phone and even the energy from a mobile phone basestation.

More info over at MediaMentalism.