http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/ Engadget Comments for Nokia wants patent on self-regenerating phone batteries, piezoelectrics and much magic involved 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/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/Mar 8th 2010 4:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/Mar 8th 2010 4:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/Mar 8th 2010 4:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/Mar 8th 2010 3:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/
What did you call me? Did you just call me "blob?"]]>Mar 8th 2010 7:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/-1 for quoting a sucky movie?]]>Mar 8th 2010 12:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/Mar 8th 2010 3:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/Mar 8th 2010 4:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/
A waste of typing, I'm afraid. For an example of this done properly, see Subtle's comment here:

http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/asus-prepping-high-end-eee-pc-s-series-for-september/

Nearly two years on and it still cracks me up. Gets my vote for 'best comment ever'.]]>Mar 8th 2010 5:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/Mar 8th 2010 5:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/
Just sayin'.

love,
SPPT]]>Mar 8th 2010 7:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/You really want people to do research on a character that has appeared in God-knows-how-many mediums over the years for a quote as lackluster as that?

And all that so we can think you're funny and up-rank your comment which really has nothing to do with the article about kinetic charging and more to do with the fact that Wolverine is in the pic above?

Why?
]]>Mar 8th 2010 9:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/09/nokia-hopes-to-one-up-touchstone-harness-wireless-power-for-am/ and voila! Goodbye wired chargers, hello independence!]]>Mar 8th 2010 3:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/Mar 8th 2010 3:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/
Nice dig.

It's what I'd call about bloody time. How slow do these tech companies want to dribble out the obvious to us.

Here's an idea, harvest the waste energy from the air exhaled from the users mouth as they talk into the mic vent with nano windmills.

Or another. Draw energy from the users body heat as they touch the phone, or even a heat exchange between the ambient air and the device, or not just the movement but the friction against the device's skin as it rustles in our pockets. Of course the good ol' casing skin integrated solar and perhaps nano tubes that pick up the minute rushing of air as you move it to your ear. I could go on..

Use all of them to harvest energy, individually minimal but altogether...

Our tech is so lame.]]>Mar 8th 2010 4:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/
..and altogether minimal.]]>Mar 8th 2010 5:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/
So says the Guy still plugged into the Matrix... ]]>Mar 8th 2010 10:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/Mar 10th 2010 5:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/
Have you seen Karl Pilkington on the Ricky Gervais show?

Listen to how Gervais portrays his ideas.
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-february-22-2010/ricky-gervais

How do you convert heat energy into electricity? The same way power plants do, right? Please look up how these work. Your "solutions" sound like million-dollar ideas.

I've got an idea, why don't doctors just cure cancer instead of treating it? That way, we wouldn't have to pay researchers so much money to image tumors.

PS, watch for a paper on novel tumor Imaging using near-infrared dyes. Here's a spoiler, Cy5.5 requires higher doses (higher toxicity) and is less tumor-specific than a soon-to-be patented dye.]]>Mar 10th 2010 10:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/

Anymore..]]>Mar 8th 2010 3:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/
Really because apple has 5.]]>Mar 8th 2010 4:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/
"Patent office doesn't except patent applications for perpetual motion machines."

... without a working model.

"With the exception of cases involving perpetual motion, a model is not ordinarily required by the Office to demonstrate the operability of a device. If operability of a device is questioned, the applicant must establish it to the satisfaction of the examiner, but he or she may choose his or her own way of so doing."

They will issue a patent for perpetual motion machine if you include a working model with aplication. Its the only patent that still needs physical demontration.]]>Mar 8th 2010 5:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/Hello sir I am a lawyer for Apple. We have actually patented having any knowledge of our patents. By having knowledge of our patents you have violated one of our patents.]]>Mar 8th 2010 8:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/Really, I never knew such a patent exis-- oh crap, now I'm violating it! That patent is iNgenious!]]>Mar 8th 2010 10:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/Mar 8th 2010 4:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/Mar 8th 2010 4:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/Mar 8th 2010 4:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/Mar 8th 2010 4:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/Mar 8th 2010 5:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/Mar 8th 2010 4:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/Mar 8th 2010 4:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/Of course, it was a dig at a certain company with a pending lawsuit which uses all the opposite terms to what I've stated above :)]]>Mar 8th 2010 4:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/Mar 8th 2010 4:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/I'm pretty sure they already have the working prototypes by this stage, not just some pretty diagrams and a patent application. ;)]]>Mar 8th 2010 4:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/Mar 8th 2010 5:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/Mar 8th 2010 5:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/Mar 8th 2010 5:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/Mar 8th 2010 5:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/
Your name is George.

Anyway, were it Apple it wouldn't happen cos it's free.]]>Mar 8th 2010 5:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/Mar 8th 2010 6:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/Mar 8th 2010 6:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/Mar 8th 2010 6:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/]]>Mar 8th 2010 6:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/Those watches are self-winding mechanical watches. I'm not sure about the exact realization, but AFAIK they use small pendulums to wind up the spring which drives the mechanics inside as you swing your arms while walking.
Using piezoelectric crystals to do it is the new thing here.
(OK, I might be unaware about a similar system built into a watch, but watches usually apply solar panels on their faces to harvest power)]]>Mar 8th 2010 6:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/We are talking about things like the Seiko kinetics:
http://www.seikowatches.com/technology/kinetic/]]>Mar 8th 2010 9:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/Mar 8th 2010 10:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/
]]>Mar 8th 2010 7:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/Agreed. and anyway pinch & zoom isnt all that great, go the tap to zoom. much nicer..]]>Mar 20th 2010 3:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/Mar 8th 2010 7:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/nokia-wants-patent-on-self-regenerating-phone-batteries-piezoel/Mar 8th 2010 7:27AM