{"id":201728,"date":"2024-12-16T10:27:37","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T16:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/innovative-device-could-power-electronics-using-body-movements"},"modified":"2024-12-16T10:27:37","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T16:27:37","slug":"innovative-device-could-power-electronics-using-body-movements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/innovative-device-could-power-electronics-using-body-movements","title":{"rendered":"Innovative Device could Power Electronics using Body Movements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/innovative-device-could-power-electronics-using-body-movements3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new technology that can generate electricity from vibrations or even small body movements means you could charge your laptop by typing or power your smartphone\u2019s battery on your morning run.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University of Waterloo have developed a tiny, wearable generator in response to the urgent need for sustainable, clean energy. It is also scalable for larger machines. Their paper, \u201cBreaking Dielectric Dilemma: Polymer Functionalized Perovskite Piezocomposite with Large Current Density Output,\u201d is published in the November edition of Nature Communications.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a real game changer,\u201d said Dr. Asif Khan, the project\u2019s lead researcher and a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Waterloo. \u201cWe have made the first device of its kind that can power electronics at low cost and with unprecedented efficiency.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new technology that can generate electricity from vibrations or even small body movements means you could charge your laptop by typing or power your smartphone\u2019s battery on your morning run. Researchers at the University of Waterloo have developed a tiny, wearable generator in response to the urgent need for sustainable, clean energy. It is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1512,17,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-mobile-phones","category-sustainability","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201728","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}