Nano, MEMS are advancing energy harvesting technology

Using nanotechnology and MEMS technology in energy harvesting applications is a work in progress that nevertheless shows huge potential, experts said.

Progress was in evidence at this week's Sensors Expo here, including a session on using nanotechnology and MEMS in energy harvesting applications. Panelists said companies like EaglePicher, Tadiran and Varta are capitalizing on existing lithium technologies to offer micro batteries for energy harvesting applications.

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MIT cuts the cord

In a perfect world, there'd be no wires. They clutter the view, get tangled behind desks and limit how far networks can reach. That's why the telegraph gave way to the radio. Cell phones unstrung telecommunications. Wi Fi liberated computer data.

Now even the last knotty wire that seemed destined to remain — the power cord — could be on its way out.

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Wireless energy promise powers up

A clean-cut vision of a future freed from the rat's nest of cables needed to power today's electronic gadgets has come one step closer to reality.

US researchers have successfully tested an experimental system to deliver power to devices without the need for wires.

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New tech may boost indoor mobile coverage

A new technology to boost the indoor coverage of mobile-phone networks — and a possible rival to combined fixed-mobile offerings, such as BT's Fusion — is set to hit the mass market in less than a year, a manufacturer said.

Several companies are developing so-called femtocells, small indoor base stations for third-generation mobile-phone networks, allowing operators to improve indoor coverage at a substantially lower cost than the traditional way of adding more cell towers.

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