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Medical devices powered by the ear itself

Deep in the inner ear of mammals is a natural battery — a chamber filled with ions that produces an electrical potential to drive neural signals.

Worldwide agreement strengthens EnOcean's international distribution

Premier Farnell and EnOcean have announced an expansion to their existing partnership.

Supercapacitor strategies

This article shares some of the research in the new IDTechEx report, "Supercapacitor/Ultracapacitor Strategies and Emerging Applications 2013-2025" (www.IDTechEx.com/SuperApps). We establish what is needed to create a billion dollar supercapacitor manufacturer: someone will. A prediction is provided of the coming shakeout in the industry including the number of manufacturers involved.

Progress in thermoelectric technology for the US Army

In one of its latest research projects, the U.S. Army Research Laboratory is investigating thermoelectric properties of materials on the Shadow Tactical Unmanned Aerial System, and techniques that could convert heat into energy.

Ocean Wave Energy Harvesting Systems

Electro Standards Laboratories has extended the science in Ocean Wave Energy Harvesting Systems.

Mouser takes leading role at Energy Harvesting Summit

Mouser Electronics, Inc., a top design engineering resource and global distributor for semiconductors and electronic components, has announced its major sponsorship and support of this week's Energy Harvesting & Storage USA 2012 on November 7-8 in Washington, DC.

Thinfilm consortium receives €1.4M in Eurostars funding

Thin Film Electronics ASA has announced that a Thinfilm-led consortium has been awarded €1.4M by the Eurostars Programme to commercialize display logic for smart tags.

Solar cell made entirely of carbon

Stanford University scientists have built the first solar cell made entirely of carbon, a promising alternative to the expensive materials used in photovoltaic devices today.

Bladon Jets range extenders improve

Bladon Jets is leaving 2012 with a modified and improved device as it is developed to perform satisfactorily. It is still intended to be an electricity source in rural India and an electric vehicle range extender, with investor Tata seeing it in the Tata Jaguar electric supercar in due course, though a Williams racing engine will be used initially in this vehicle.

World's First 23 inch touch panels using ClearOhm™ material

Cambrios Technologies Corporation and the CEM (Chemical & Electronic Material) division of LG Electronics (LG), have announced the world's first ClearOhm™ material-based 23" touch panel.

New technique reveals lithium in action

Exactly what goes inside advanced lithium-air batteries as they charge and discharge has always been impossible to observe directly. Now, a new technique developed by MIT researchers promises to change that, allowing study of this electrochemical activity as it happens.

Heartbeat power runs pacemaker

An experimental device converted energy from a beating heart to provide enough electricity to power a pacemaker , in a study presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2012.

Carbon nanotube forests for supercapacitors and transistors

Carbon nanotubes can be mounted upright in dense forests to maximise porous area in elecvtrodes for supercapacitors, supercabatteries and, it is thought, for some batteries as well.

Scientists build the first all-carbon solar cell

Stanford University scientists have built the first solar cell made entirely of carbon, a promising alternative to the expensive materials used in photovoltaic devices today.

Smartphones that use half the power

The new advance is essentially a blazingly fast electronic gearbox. It chooses among different voltages that can be sent across the transistor, and selects the one that minimizes power consumption, and it does this as many as 20 million times per second.

Anode material triples capacity while lowering LIB cost up to 70%

Start-up company, California Lithium Battery, has announced the record-setting performance of its new GEN3 silicon graphene composite anode material for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs).

Short supply of touch screen materials

In time for the holiday season, we see more and more launches of new touch screen consumer devices. What is clouding the situtation is a supply shortage that the touch screen industry is facing.

Researchers boost silicon-based batteries

Researchers at Rice University have refined silicon-based lithium-ion technology by literally crushing their previous work to make a high-capacity, long-lived and low-cost anode material with serious commercial potential for rechargeable lithium batteries.

Long wait for fuel cell parity

At the "Utility Vehicles and Buses" session of the eCarTec conference in Munich, Dr Ulrich Piotrowski of Daimler EvoBus revealed more about the high stakes game being played by many of the major automotive companies in introducing fuel cells as range extenders in on-road vehicles.

Panasonic may curb solar panel, lithium battery expansion

Reuters report that electronics conglomerate Panasonic Corp may curtail its expanded production of solar panels and small lithium batteries used in PCs and other devices as part of new round of restructuring, two sources at the company told Reuters.