Nanotechnology might result in eternal battery life

06/22/2011, Sounds like a dream? Well, to be honest, just how much juice do you expect the entire day’s worth of taps on your touchscreen is able to generate? Surely those alone aren’t enough to power the display even, but if [...]

Piezoelectrics find use in vehicles

11/23/2009, Boffins are finding a way to use piezoelectrics on vehicles in order to convert kinetic energy into electricity, and this could mean piezoelectric devices being mounted on the roof or tail of a car or on an airplane fuselage, where [...]