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It seems that scientists have found another way to improve power shortage – body heat…
According to researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy and the University of California at Berkeley, recent findings point to a way of making silicon into a better thermal conductor for turning even small amounts of heat into electricity, which in turn could be used to recharge your mobile phone or a portable media player.
The secret, they say, lies in nanowires, or microscopic strands of silicon, that could channel heat energy far more efficiently than current designs for thermoconductors.
Ideally, this finding could lead to special clothing and other wearable materials that produce electrical current for batteries in mobile phones, handheld computers, or portable media players. The only problem – well, they seem designed for people living in Alaska, Iceland or Scandinavian countries…
[Via: textually.org]
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Dusan Belic
Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
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