{"id":684295,"date":"2010-03-06T01:57:44","date_gmt":"2010-03-06T06:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ecofriend.org\/entry\/nokia-files-patent-for-a-cellphone-powered-by-kinetic-energy\/"},"modified":"2010-03-06T01:57:44","modified_gmt":"2010-03-06T06:57:44","slug":"nokia-files-patent-for-a-cellphone-powered-by-kinetic-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/684295","title":{"rendered":"Nokia files patent for a cellphone powered by kinetic energy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.instablogsimages.com\/images\/2010\/03\/06\/nokia-cellphones_ik16Z_69.jpg?w=780\" alt=\"nokia cellphones\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Eco Factor:<\/strong> Cellphone to be powered by renewable energy.<\/p>\n<p>Finnish company Nokia is envisioning a cellphone that never needs to be plugged in to a wall socket for a recharge. The company has filed a US <a href=\"http:\/\/appft.uspto.gov\/netacgi\/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&#038;Sect2=HITOFF&#038;p=1&#038;u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&#038;r=1&#038;f=G&#038;l=50&#038;co1=AND&#038;d=PG01&#038;s1=20100045241.PGNR.&#038;OS=DN\/20100045241&#038;RS=DN\/20100045241\">patent<\/a> last week for a handset that recharges itself by harvesting energy from the owner\u2019s motion. The cellphone that features built-in piezoelectric generators will be able to convert kinetic energy into usable electricity using onboard piezoelectric crystals.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The phone will have all the heavier components, such as the radio transmitter circuit and battery, supported on a sturdy frame. The frame will be able to move along two sets of rails. Piezoelectric crystals sit on the end of each rail and generate a current whenever the cellphone is moved. So as the user walks, or otherwise moves the phone, electricity is generated to recharge the onboard battery.<\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg20527505.300-the-selfcharging-cellphone.html\">New Scientist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eco Factor: Cellphone to be powered by renewable energy. Finnish company Nokia is envisioning a cellphone that never needs to be plugged in to a wall socket for a recharge. The company has filed a US patent last week for a handset that recharges itself by harvesting energy from the owner\u2019s motion. The cellphone that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":421,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-684295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2S11","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/421"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}