August 15, 2011
Since recently, I may be the proud owners of a "smartphone" expect (no, none of IPhones, because I Apple's rigid policy not even want to support and their hardware monopoly).
Frankly, I'm flabbergasted, what has happened in recent years in the field of mobile communication. My phone is actually mutated into a portable mini office with a range of functions, of which I as a journalist dared hardly dream recently: E-mails and send rechechieren the Internet, subscribe newsreader, read e-books, make high resolution photos and movies , plan routes and navigate through the country (and even with so-called augmented reality -Apps) use social networks and messenger such as Skype, online banking on the go, documents and even scan barcodes for product identification, and even speech and music recognition is now with surprisingly high hit rate possible (to dictate a text message is very handy) - and, believe it or not: you can calls with the thing too. All this finally with a single small device, at affordable prices. My joy at the start was huge.
But then came the disillusionment: namely, the there's a catch. Not to say, a giant hook. And the lies in the power supply. I use the device on the road with GPS and data network functions, run between a few short phone calls, the battery in at least 5 to 6 hours on end.
What use to me the best applications with empty battery?
It seems to me, as if we were in terms of energy still in the Stone Age. Meanwhile, could you energy but everywhere Siphon: Kinetic, for example, when we go from A to B or from the body movement at all; when we speak (sound pressure); from body heat or those who radiates the mobile phone as a loss - all energy is released and dissipated into nothingness. Surely it can not be too technologically challenging to recover these. Finally, when light (solar energy) succeeds even more or less durable.
A nightclub in Amsterdam makes before, some of the lighting and the operation of the DJ console can be powered solely by dancing as the guests. The efficiency can certainly increase significantly, without having to immediately think of horror scenarios as in the dystopian movie "Matrix", in which the whole human machinery is being exploited as an energy source.
Another invention can also hope: "A battery that has the same performance brings to the Lithium-ion version, however, is charging in seconds, extremely long lives and also little cost: This potential is attributed graphs, the 2010 who discovered the physics Nobel Prize procured. A previous problem for its use in batteries believe material researchers from Monash University now have to overcome - and just with water, "it said recently at Pressetext.com .
And so I keep dreaming of a current technically autonomous mobile device anytime, anywhere charging itself. How long do I have to wait on it well?
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