Incorporated directly into a cell phone housing, the team's nanogenerator could harvest and
convert vibration energy from a surface, such as the passenger seat of a moving vehicle, into power for the phone.
Not exact matches
Devices that
convert «junk»
energy from airport runway
vibrations into usable power.
The researchers discovered the high - tech material can act as a microphone (by capturing the
vibrations from sound, or mechanical
energy, and
converting it to electrical
energy) as well as a loudspeaker (by operating the opposite way:
converting electrical
energy to mechanical
energy).
Harnessing
vibrations from the air using piezoelectric transducers, which would
convert that mechanical
energy into electricity, seemed like a better idea.
Visible light, shortwave, from the Sun is incapable of
converting matter to heat
energy, of heating up matter, of raising its temperature, of moving the molecules of matter into
vibration.
Developers do not need to use the ViviTouch API to generate
vibrations, instead the audio
energy from a game is
converted to recreate different effects.