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Posted by CmdrTaco on from the yakkity-yak dept.

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.

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  1. Infinite power by grapeape · · Score: 4, Funny

    Geez if I could hook up a storage battery and wire it to my wife I could go off grid.

    1. Re:Infinite power by MobileTatsu-NJG · · Score: 4, Funny

      Geez if I could hook up a storage battery and wire it to my wife I could go off grid.

      From what I understand about your wife, she'd use it up again before sunrise.

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  2. Great by EkriirkE · · Score: 4, Funny

    SORRY I'M YELLING, MY BATTERY IS LOW!!!

    (off-topic lowercase to side-step /. yelling filters here)

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    1. Re:Great by Anne_Nonymous · · Score: 3, Funny

      Could you speak up a bit? My battery is low too.

  3. finally a device... by Odinlake · · Score: 3, Funny

    finally a device that actually might start working again when you yell at it.

  4. Really? by pookemon · · Score: 3, Funny

    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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