Posted on Tuesday, March 09 2010 @ 0:40 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
Engaget
reports Nokia has filed a patent for a piezoelectric kinetic energy harvester, a technology that has the potential to capture energy generated by the phone's movements and use it to recharge your battery.
Working along the same principles as kinetic wristwatches have done for a long time already, Nokia's idea is to capture the energy generated by the phone's movements and to refashion it into beautiful, clean-as-a-whistle electric power. By allowing the heavier internal components to move on rails within the phone as part of a "force-transferring assembly," the Espoo think tank has figured out a way to capitalize on all the small forces of acceleration and rotation that we subject our phones to on a daily basis.
