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Touchscreens have become a ubiquitous feature of modern life for people around the world. Millions of smartphones have been poked, prodded, and swiped, running down batteries constantly.
But researchers at Michigan State University have created a new kind of electric generator that could one day store the energy from touching and swiping a smartphone that may one day be used to help charge smartphones using nothing but day-to-day human motion.
The device is known as a biocompatible ferroelectret nanogenerator, or FENG. Using relatively low-cost and environmentally-friendly materials, FENG converts the energy from touching or pressing it into electricity. While similar devices powered by motion already exist, this one is thin, foldable, and relatively cheap to produce, creating a means of generating electricity that could use the energy from touch to power smartphone screens in the near future.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 13 2016, @09:05PM
Charge your phone maam? Charge your phone sir? I just washed my hands, honest. Charge your phone maam? Shine your shoes sir? I mean, charge your phone sir?
The future is gonna be wonderful! Automation will eliminate every job except blogging and phone touching.
(Score: 2) by edIII on Tuesday December 13 2016, @09:11PM
You're literally playing with the shit of the Elite's though. That's why I don't touch other people's smartphones at all. They're used in the bathroom, and studies have shown just how dirty we all are. I keep alcohol wipes on me to keep my phone clean, along with my keyboard.
I might do it for the crumbs we will need to survive the next 4 years, but I would rub my hands all over my butthole first to establish some equality. At the very least I get paid by the Man to rub shit all over their shiny equipment afforded to them by our brutal exploitation. Would you like a pretzel sir? ;)
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 13 2016, @09:16PM
What kind of shit do you think a shoeshine touches? Are you too senile to remember when shoeshines were everywhere?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 14 2016, @12:14PM
Now, phone charging is as easy as a velcro wristband and a copy of your favorite porn magazine...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 14 2016, @01:38PM
You mean the phone can be charged in only two minu--- uh, I mean, they still sell porn magazines?