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Researchers discover battery-free technology which harvests power from radio and Wi-Fi signals for low-powered devices(www.tomshardware.com)

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BellaDonna@mujico.org
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Uhm, how is this fundamentally different from a crystal radio? I’ve built this exact concept from a science kit, and this is a concept that’s been proven for decades.

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IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org
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It’s…not. The original press release is typically hype-y, but the part that toms hardware article really mangled is that they didnt find a way to do it, they found a new design for a device to do it.

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