New device to charge cellphones with car batteries

Last Updated: Wednesday, October 9, 2013, 19:32

Out of battery? No worries, this device lets you charge your phone with a car battery!

Electricity generated from sewage using `wired microbes`

Last Updated: Sunday, September 22, 2013, 16:22

Stanford University engineers have devised a new way to generate electricity from sewage using naturally-occurring "wired microbes" as mini power plants, producing electricity as they digest plant and animal waste.

Smartphone battery temperature sensors can be used to reveal accurate weather data

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 14, 2013, 23:54

An app development group based in London has discovered that smartphone battery temperatures are correlated to actually weather conditions and this information can be used for real-time temperature readings.

Now, wireless devices that communicate sans batteries

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 14, 2013, 14:14

The new communication technique, which the researchers call `ambient backscatter,` takes advantage of the TV and cellular transmissions that already surround us around the clock.

Probe links lithium battery to Dubai UPS crash

Last Updated: Thursday, July 25, 2013, 00:05

A fire that began in cargo containing lithium batteries turned the inside of a United Parcel Service plane into a "catastrophic" chain reaction of flames and smoke before a crash three years ago, according to a report released.

British Dreamliner fire probe looks at Honeywell part

Last Updated: Tuesday, July 16, 2013, 21:56

British investigators said today they were examining a transmitter made by US group Honeywell as part of a probe into a fire on a Boeing Dreamliner jet at London's Heathrow Airport.