{"id":112511,"date":"2020-09-04T15:24:07","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T22:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/battery-free-game-boy-runs-forever"},"modified":"2020-09-04T15:24:07","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T22:24:07","slug":"battery-free-game-boy-runs-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/battery-free-game-boy-runs-forever","title":{"rendered":"Battery-free Game Boy runs forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-RhCrdu7kDg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A hand-held video game console allowing indefinite gameplay might be a parent\u2019s worst nightmare.<\/p>\n<p>But this Game Boy is not just a toy. It\u2019s a powerful proof-of-concept, developed by researchers at Northwestern University and the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in the Netherlands, that pushes the boundaries of battery-free intermittent computing into the realm of fun and interaction.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of batteries, which are costly, environmentally hazardous and ultimately end up in landfills, this device harvests <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/energy\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">energy<\/a> from the sun\u2014and the user. These advances enable gaming to last forever without having to stop and recharge the battery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hand-held video game console allowing indefinite gameplay might be a parent\u2019s worst nightmare. But this Game Boy is not just a toy. It\u2019s a powerful proof-of-concept, developed by researchers at Northwestern University and the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in the Netherlands, that pushes the boundaries of battery-free intermittent computing into the realm [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1509],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}