New Technology Converts Sound Into Electrical Energy
_Featured_, News Flash, Technology Friday, May 13th, 2011
By Thomas Houston – The Huffington Post
In the future, you could charge your cell phone just by chatting.
Researchers at South Korea’s Sungkyunkwan University have developed a new technology that converts soundwaves into electrical energy, The Telegraph reports. With the sound-harvesting tech, batteries could be charged by everything from the human voice and music to the sound of highway traffic.
Researcher Dr. Sang-Woo Kim said, “The sound that always exists in our everyday life and environments has been overlooked as a source. This motivated us to realise power generation by turning sound energy from speech, music or noise into electrical power.”
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/09/sound-charging-cell-phone-battery_n_859347.html
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It’s been around for along time already. It’s called a pressure transducer and it what makes speakers and microphones work.