A HI-TECH knife that takes the effort out of chopping in the kitchen has been revealed – and I tried it out. Everyone has ...

A number of kinetic energy chargers have been hitting the market in recent years including the nPower PEG. Researchers have also been working to improve the technology, developing such devices as the ...

Small vibrations: Richard Norte in his lab at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of Delft University of Technology. (Courtesy: Studio Wavy for Delft University of Technology) A new “nanostring” has ...

Osaka, Japan – Walking can boost not only your own energy but also, potentially, the energy of your wearable electronic devices. Osaka Metropolitan University scientists made a significant advance ...

When you hear things like “raise your vibrations” you might dismiss it as the same old vague wellness jargon. But the belief is actually grounded in Albert Einstein’s teachings that everything is ...

Energy harvesting technology collects and transforms waste energy like heat, vibration, light, and electromagnetic waves from everyday settings like buildings, automobiles, and home appliances.

The number of ways to harvest energy that would otherwise go unused and wasted is extraordinary. To cite a few of the many examples, there’s the heat given off during almost any physical or electronic ...

Perpetuum has launched a vibration-energy harvester to power wireless and battery-free devices that can send large amounts of data from many types of industrial equipment (see figure). The PMG7 ...

Try as they might, scientists can’t truly rid a space or an object of its energy. But what “zero-point energy” really means ...