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Meet the phone that sucks power out of the air

Josh
Friday
6:15 pm

null-334319196-1245171957OK, so it’s just a prototype. And it can’t produce enough power to sustain itself. For now.

Disclaimers aside, this Nokia proof-of-concept phone showcases 10 pounds of cool in a 5-ounce sack. The phone has a wide-band receiver which harvests wireless waves out of the air, and turns them into (you guessed it) go juice. Whether you’re in range of a wi-fi signal, or just pulling useless TV or AM radio signals out of the air, any wave is food to this phone.

Now, Nokia can only pull 5 milliwatts from the air right now, but it’d be fairly easy to raise that to 20 milliwatts — enough to keep the battery from draining while not engaged in a call.

Expect the technology to hit your phone within 3 to 5 years.

Full story via Yahoo! Technology: http://ca.tech.yahoo.com/blogs/the_working_guy/rss/article/3638

Reader Comments

Remember a few years back when they said cell phone signal gave you cancer..? How do you think those people are going to feel about this one?!

#1 
Written By Tony Rad on June 26th, 2009 @ 7:25 pm

I should think they’ll love it. After all, this phone eats radio waves, so there’s less cancer to go around.

#2 
Written By Josh on June 26th, 2009 @ 9:06 pm

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