wearables Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Fri, 19 Aug 2016 19:44:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 MIT’s New Lithium-Ion Battery Could Be The Future of Electric Cars https://www.greenoptimistic.com/mits-new-lithium-ion-battery-future-electric-cars-20160819/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/mits-new-lithium-ion-battery-future-electric-cars-20160819/#respond Fri, 19 Aug 2016 19:44:44 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=60446 Qichao Hu, the CEO at MIT’s SolidEnergy Systems, invented a lithium-ion battery that will last twice as long but smaller by half. This battery is a big deal in that it uses lithium-metal foil as the anode material, as opposed to the standard graphite, carbon, or silicone, and can be used in things like wearables, […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/mits-new-lithium-ion-battery-future-electric-cars-20160819/feed/ 0 60446 Body Heat Harvesting Wearable Patch Better than Batteries https://www.greenoptimistic.com/power-harvesting-wearable/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/power-harvesting-wearable/#respond Wed, 20 Jan 2016 08:09:34 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=58923 There is a new hope for keeping wearable gadgets hooked as long as you like, without even minding of charging them. An NSF sponsored nanoengineering research center, ASSIST or Advanced Self Powered Systems of Integrated Sensors of North Carolina State University, have been developing sensors that use body heat to power up wearable gadgets. The […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/power-harvesting-wearable/feed/ 0 58923 NASA’s New Wi-Fi Reflector Chip Boosts the Speed of Wearables https://www.greenoptimistic.com/nasa-wifi-reflector-wearables/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/nasa-wifi-reflector-wearables/#respond Wed, 29 Jul 2015 09:21:06 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=55975 The Wi-Fi Reflector Chip, which has been developed for wearable devices by the NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), together with the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), reflects wireless signals instead of using regular transmitters and receivers. While wearable gadgets are finding their way into many sectors like health, security and entertainment, many new developments are […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/nasa-wifi-reflector-wearables/feed/ 0 55975 New Trendy Pants from Nokia Charge a Lumia Without a Drop of Sweat https://www.greenoptimistic.com/new-trendy-trousers-nokia-charge-lumia-without-drop-sweat-20140701/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/new-trendy-trousers-nokia-charge-lumia-without-drop-sweat-20140701/#respond Tue, 01 Jul 2014 19:36:58 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=48261 High tech wearables that can do 100 things at the same time (and still look super sexy and trendy) seem to be the hit of the summer. You probably did not miss the news about the fancy headset that could power electronic devices with in-built solar cells, as well as the shoe insole that could […]

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