This may not be the newest piece of science/innovation I've heard of but it does seem to offer a very good alternative to wires plugged into sniffs. A team of scientists from the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley found that excesive body heat, especially from material embedded with thermoelectric modules, could be turned into electricity.
The findings revealed that in the future we could charge our gadgets by simply wearng them close to our body. So far the technology lacked on efficiency but the new researchers manage to increase it up to a factor of 100.
The technique involves the galvanic displacement of silicon through the reduction of silver ions on a wafer’s surface.
If you're like me and physics is not your best topic I'm sure you'd be more interested to know that in the future they may develop to creating "electrical power from just about any situation in which heat is being given off, heat that is currently being wasted".
Here are more info on how it works.
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If this works out, we might be able to move away from using water to fuel out electricity. It is after all a non-renewable resource. Of course, solar power would always work too...
Posted by: Kimberlee Morrison | January 21, 2008 6:47 PM | Permalink to Comment