MIT engineers design tiny batteries for powering cell-sized robots
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Neat application though. Obviously, don't expect to buy one next week. But what's interesting here is that you'd think that electrochemical cells, which are going to scale by volume (cube law) as they get smaller, would not be as effective in these micro-scale applications as the energy harvesting/wireless energy schemes people seem to like work on, which mostly scale by aperture/area (square law). They treat that in passing, basically, the problem with solar is sometime's it's dark, but it's not very edifying.
No reason to read the rest of this fucker! XD
Scientific press releases are usually poorly written, by people who don't necessarily understand the science. Look at the paper if you want details.
they are written by people who want to entice the knowledgeable to read the article, and the less so to gawk at it. Surely this accomplished both tasks
You’re comparing a research university with a teaching college. In respect of a research announcement. Like, yeah the College of Western Idaho also doesn’t get much PR for its football team.
I've reading somewhere about the stats and the pockets are bigger than ever. It's simple we don't have the batteries, "the size selector" that enable us to get the most ideal pockets that I have in my dreams.
We need batteries that enable the smallest pockets of all time. Much "work" is being done on "smarting the phone". No body considered that it coulds be the side of a coin. This is something they could be working on.
Imagine terminals everywere, you insert your "smartphone", and it's a whole PC! You can even insert into a payphone to make regular phone. There's still payphones everywhere. It's just an idea.