BATTERY-FREE ELECTRONICS BREAKTHROUGH COULD RADICALLY REDUCE E-WASTE IN LANDFILLS

Researchers have unveiled a ground-breaking system that allows electronic devices to run without batteries for “an infinite lifetime”.

Computer engineers from Northwestern University and Delft University of Technology developed the BFree energy-harvesting technology in order to enable battery-free devices capable of running perpetually with only intermittent energy input.

The same team previously introduced the world’s first battery-free Game Boy last year, which is powered energy harvested from the user pushing the buttons.

The engineers hope the innovative BFree system will help cut the vast amounts of dead batteries that end up as e-waste in landfills around the world.
It will also allow amateur hobbyists and those within the Maker Movement to create their own battery-free electronic devices.
“Right now, it’s virtually impossible for hobbyists to develop devices with battery-free hardware, so we wanted to democratise our battery-free platform,” said Josiah Hester, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineeri

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BATTERY-FREE ELECTRONICS BREAKTHROUGH COULD RADICALLY REDUCE E-WASTE IN LANDFILLS

Researchers have unveiled a ground-breaking system that allows electronic devices to run without batteries for “an infinite lifetime”.

Computer engineers from Northwestern University and Delft University of Technology developed the BFree energy-harvesting technology in order to enable battery-free devices capable of running perpetually with only intermittent energy input.

The same team previously introduced the world’s first battery-free Game Boy last year, which is powered energy harvested from the user pushing the buttons.

The engineers hope the innovative BFree system will help cut the vast amounts of dead batteries that end up as e-waste in landfills around the world.
It will also allow amateur hobbyists and those within the Maker Movement to create their own battery-free electronic devices.
“Right now, it’s virtually impossible for hobbyists to develop devices with battery-free hardware, so we wanted to democratise our battery-free platform,” said Josiah Hester, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering.

Awesome insights!
"BFree Energy."

This is a quantum leap and an
example of a disruptive technology.

Marvelous step. Metaverse will surely be interesting