http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/02/researchers-develop-tiny-autonomous-piezoelectric-energy-harves/ Engadget Comments for Researchers develop tiny, autonomous piezoelectric energy harvester http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/02/researchers-develop-tiny-autonomous-piezoelectric-energy-harves/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/02/researchers-develop-tiny-autonomous-piezoelectric-energy-harves/Jan 2nd 2010 7:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/02/researchers-develop-tiny-autonomous-piezoelectric-energy-harves/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/02/researchers-develop-tiny-autonomous-piezoelectric-energy-harves/
Zombies don't move around fast enough.]]>Jan 2nd 2010 9:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/02/researchers-develop-tiny-autonomous-piezoelectric-energy-harves/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/02/researchers-develop-tiny-autonomous-piezoelectric-energy-harves/
Depends, if there's a hunter than your fucked..]]>Jan 2nd 2010 9:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/02/researchers-develop-tiny-autonomous-piezoelectric-energy-harves/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/02/researchers-develop-tiny-autonomous-piezoelectric-energy-harves/Jan 2nd 2010 7:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/02/researchers-develop-tiny-autonomous-piezoelectric-energy-harves/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/02/researchers-develop-tiny-autonomous-piezoelectric-energy-harves/
Exceot for when watching movies and not using the board XD but others MMO's could power their own PC's.]]>Jan 2nd 2010 8:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/02/researchers-develop-tiny-autonomous-piezoelectric-energy-harves/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/02/researchers-develop-tiny-autonomous-piezoelectric-energy-harves/Jan 2nd 2010 10:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/02/researchers-develop-tiny-autonomous-piezoelectric-energy-harves/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/02/researchers-develop-tiny-autonomous-piezoelectric-energy-harves/Jan 4th 2010 1:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/02/researchers-develop-tiny-autonomous-piezoelectric-energy-harves/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/02/researchers-develop-tiny-autonomous-piezoelectric-energy-harves/Jan 2nd 2010 7:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/02/researchers-develop-tiny-autonomous-piezoelectric-energy-harves/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/02/researchers-develop-tiny-autonomous-piezoelectric-energy-harves/Yes. and inb4 middle-aged idiots saying 'blah blah perpetual energy has been around for yonks'.
Name one place that it's used efficiently and commonly.
This thing looks promising.]]>Jan 2nd 2010 8:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/02/researchers-develop-tiny-autonomous-piezoelectric-energy-harves/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/02/researchers-develop-tiny-autonomous-piezoelectric-energy-harves/It sounds like neither of you understand what perpetual motion/energy is...]]>Jan 2nd 2010 9:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/02/researchers-develop-tiny-autonomous-piezoelectric-energy-harves/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/02/researchers-develop-tiny-autonomous-piezoelectric-energy-harves/
It HAS been around for years...idiot!]]>Jan 2nd 2010 9:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/02/researchers-develop-tiny-autonomous-piezoelectric-energy-harves/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/02/researchers-develop-tiny-autonomous-piezoelectric-energy-harves/you are a tool
just put two of these together and call it one object, thus it shall power itself]]>Jan 2nd 2010 12:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/02/researchers-develop-tiny-autonomous-piezoelectric-energy-harves/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/02/researchers-develop-tiny-autonomous-piezoelectric-energy-harves/Jan 2nd 2010 8:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/02/researchers-develop-tiny-autonomous-piezoelectric-energy-harves/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/02/researchers-develop-tiny-autonomous-piezoelectric-energy-harves/
And how exactly do you plan to generate enough energy to power your phone with this gimmick? By banging it on your head constantly?]]>Jan 2nd 2010 8:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/02/researchers-develop-tiny-autonomous-piezoelectric-energy-harves/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/02/researchers-develop-tiny-autonomous-piezoelectric-energy-harves/Well.. that could work too.. I was thinking more on the lines of just carrying it around on your person would help charge the phone (way in the future)..

In any case, the world could definitely use "ingenious" thinkers to come up with "smart" solutions like the one you suggested.. :)]]>Jan 2nd 2010 8:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/02/researchers-develop-tiny-autonomous-piezoelectric-energy-harves/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/02/researchers-develop-tiny-autonomous-piezoelectric-energy-harves/
Simple. Masturbation!

Solves the average geeks problems all the time!]]>Jan 2nd 2010 8:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/02/researchers-develop-tiny-autonomous-piezoelectric-energy-harves/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/02/researchers-develop-tiny-autonomous-piezoelectric-energy-harves/
I don't think you understand the large difference in power requirements of a simple wireless thermometer versus the power requirements of a modern cellphone with 3G, a large screen, music playback, ability to play movies and games, etc.

The real applicability of a device like this is to reduce cost in sensor deployments, so that one doesn't have to run wiring to each little sensor (in a large application this could be a significant cost). ]]>Jan 2nd 2010 3:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/02/researchers-develop-tiny-autonomous-piezoelectric-energy-harves/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/02/researchers-develop-tiny-autonomous-piezoelectric-energy-harves/
We find the right Youtube video of girls in shorts dancing and he charges all of our netbooks.]]>Jan 2nd 2010 4:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/02/researchers-develop-tiny-autonomous-piezoelectric-energy-harves/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/02/researchers-develop-tiny-autonomous-piezoelectric-energy-harves/Jan 2nd 2010 8:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/02/researchers-develop-tiny-autonomous-piezoelectric-energy-harves/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/02/researchers-develop-tiny-autonomous-piezoelectric-energy-harves/
hurr hurr durka durka durka....]]>Jan 2nd 2010 9:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/02/researchers-develop-tiny-autonomous-piezoelectric-energy-harves/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/02/researchers-develop-tiny-autonomous-piezoelectric-energy-harves/
i remember the old keyboard which were very tactile from early days, i can see a good usage of the exact technology there.... ]]>Jan 2nd 2010 9:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/02/researchers-develop-tiny-autonomous-piezoelectric-energy-harves/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/02/researchers-develop-tiny-autonomous-piezoelectric-energy-harves/Jan 2nd 2010 9:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/02/researchers-develop-tiny-autonomous-piezoelectric-energy-harves/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/02/researchers-develop-tiny-autonomous-piezoelectric-energy-harves/
http://mide.com/products/volture/volture_catalog.php#peh]]>Jan 2nd 2010 10:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/02/researchers-develop-tiny-autonomous-piezoelectric-energy-harves/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/02/researchers-develop-tiny-autonomous-piezoelectric-energy-harves/Jan 2nd 2010 1:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/02/researchers-develop-tiny-autonomous-piezoelectric-energy-harves/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/02/researchers-develop-tiny-autonomous-piezoelectric-energy-harves/
Imagine powering your cell phone just by the act of pushing in the keys to dial. Or powering your laptop as you type (IBM had a prototype laptop like that a few years ago). Put some of these in your sneakers, get home after a run and through inductive charging built into some mat, help power your house.]]>Jan 2nd 2010 1:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/02/researchers-develop-tiny-autonomous-piezoelectric-energy-harves/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/02/researchers-develop-tiny-autonomous-piezoelectric-energy-harves/Jan 2nd 2010 3:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/02/researchers-develop-tiny-autonomous-piezoelectric-energy-harves/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/02/researchers-develop-tiny-autonomous-piezoelectric-energy-harves/
Not sure why everyone is acting like these are mini nuclear reactors here. It's a simple little device... you're not going to be powering anything as large as a laptop. Maybe you can power the keyboard status LEDs on your laptop... that's about it.]]>Jan 2nd 2010 3:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/02/researchers-develop-tiny-autonomous-piezoelectric-energy-harves/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/02/researchers-develop-tiny-autonomous-piezoelectric-energy-harves/
it's not nuclear and insanely toxic it's piezoelectric.
also,
do you vote? If so, why? I mean you're just one vote.]]>Jan 2nd 2010 4:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/02/researchers-develop-tiny-autonomous-piezoelectric-energy-harves/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/02/researchers-develop-tiny-autonomous-piezoelectric-energy-harves/thanks for showing there are people with some minimal brains and technical knowledge still paul, it's quite exasperating to read all those nonsensical posts, and I'm only half way, next I expect someone suggesting it can power a car by putting it in a break and gas pedal..
]]>Jan 4th 2010 3:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/02/researchers-develop-tiny-autonomous-piezoelectric-energy-harves/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/02/researchers-develop-tiny-autonomous-piezoelectric-energy-harves/
Oh course, aluminum nitride is the only way to go.

Duh— Only chumps use lead zirconate titanate!
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There are just so many applications where the need to replace a battery is a hassle, even if it's only every few years. Being able to build sensors right into (e.g.) large truck tyres is a Good Thing.
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