Have you turned off the light the other day? Will we have enough energy in the future to afford turning off lights whenever we want to? What if we could power devices around us with simple energy source like the flowing of the blood or the beating of our own hearts? Wouldn’t that be eco-friendly?

According to researchers working on piezoelectric nanowires your own blood could be use to power up small devices like iPods. They have discovered how to use zinc oxide nanowires to generate electricity when subjected to mechanical stress. The nano things would be implanted right under your skin and then the rest should be fairly easy. The technology doesn’t have a date yet so in the mean time keep those regular chargers around.

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Get ready to dump your mobile chargers as Intel is going to change the way you’re charging your mobile devices. The company is thinking about using all that free energy that roams around the world. Intel will develop sensors that will be able to get that sunlight, radiation and even body heat and then turn it into usable energy for various gadgets. It looks to me that Intel might just have something here. So let’s dream with them and wait for an actual product. But then again, we were dreaming about cold fusion and that never turned out to be possible yet!

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