{"id":117628,"date":"2020-12-25T16:23:24","date_gmt":"2020-12-26T00:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/scientists-invent-a-flexible-device-that-converts-wi-fi-signals-into-electricity"},"modified":"2020-12-25T16:23:24","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T00:23:24","slug":"scientists-invent-a-flexible-device-that-converts-wi-fi-signals-into-electricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/scientists-invent-a-flexible-device-that-converts-wi-fi-signals-into-electricity","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Invent a Flexible Device That Converts Wi-Fi Signals Into Electricity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-invent-a-flexible-device-that-converts-wi-fi-signals-into-electricity3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We can probably all agree that charging cables are just the worst, and that we\u2019d love to have fewer of them in our lives. Now, a new invention might give us just that: engineers have developed a flexible device that harvests energy from Wi-Fi signals.<\/p>\n<p>And not just harvest. It can then convert it into electricity that could be used to power devices, wire-and battery-free.<\/p>\n<p>The device is what is known as a rectenna \u2014 a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Portmanteau\">portmanteau<\/a> of \u2018rectifying antenna\u2019 \u2014 which is a type of antenna that converts electromagnetic energy into direct current (DC).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We can probably all agree that charging cables are just the worst, and that we\u2019d love to have fewer of them in our lives. Now, a new invention might give us just that: engineers have developed a flexible device that harvests energy from Wi-Fi signals. And not just harvest. It can then convert it into [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117628","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}