solar powered device Archives – The Green Optimistic

Apple Patents Embedded Solar Panel in Upcoming iPhones

Ovidiu Sandru — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 06:15:01 +0000

Apple has got us used to innovations and brilliant design in all of their products, being them hardware of software. By wanting to stay on the trendy wave of being green (and possibly wanting to make a difference), Apple has filed a patent of a solar powered iPhone. But it's not the usual solar panel they dream of.

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World's Smallest Solar Powered Sensor Invented by University of Michigan Researchers

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:36:45 +0000

University of Michigan engineers developed the smallest solar powered sensor system, having only 9 cubic millimeters, that can harvest energy from ambient light to operate.

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Tiniest Solar Cell Invented to Power Microscopic Devices

Ovidiu Sandru — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:00:32 +0000

The green energy movement has brought, like wars brought technological advances, a wave of alternatively-powered inventions, among which it is the most recent miniature solar cell, designed to power microscopic machines.

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