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disco_tracy sent in a story about some fancy new power technology designed to tap energy from sound waves. Although the cell phone concept grabs the headline, they also talk about harvesting noise from traffic.
Geez if I could hook up a storage battery and wire it to my wife I could go off grid.
Just make a phone that, while making a call, recharges its battery from the motion of the car. You've got a lot more energy to work with there than just sound energy, especially if you can derive energy from sudden stops.
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If only data centers could be powered by forum posts like this. Theres an unlimited supply to draw from.
SORRY I'M YELLING, MY BATTERY IS LOW!!!
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So those people on their phones 24/7 (I realize that's a bit of a 90s comment right there, but you know who I mean) will only be rewarded with MORE battery power? They already won't shut up. Damn it.
finally a device that actually might start working again when you yell at it.
From TFA - "Just as speakers transform electric signals into sound, the opposite process -- of turning sound into a source of electrical power -- is possible"
I never would have guessed that. Maybe now they can make something capable of turning sound into electrical impulses. I will patent that idea I think - and call it an anti-speaker. Or an audioelectictransmogrifier for short.
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Shhhh. Your going to confuse average joe-sixpack even more. The editors must have assumed that their tripe would pass the standard jargon filter. Does anybody have a regex for finding all the jargon in some text, so you can subsequently replace it with stuff this guys says?
I am sure six-pack wouldn't notice.
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I suppose we could go around wrapping dead scientists in copper wire...?
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to patent the magnetic coffin.
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my chainsaw has 118dB @ 1m (it's a big one). Great, i don't need to charge my phone, just carry the battery-free sound-harvesting phone and a 7.3kg chainsaw, and gun that while i make a quick call to the ear clinic complaining about deafness.