Reported today in an article; Mobile devices could be recharged at no cost By Agam Shah, IDG news service, Intel is working on sensors that can 'harvest energy' from their environment. In other words, your cell phone or PDA would gather energy from you, cell towers, the sun, and what ever else it can find (specific to the design of the sensor). While this is really cool, one has to wonder is it legal. I can see it now, a lawsuit because you stole someones bodyheat (and yes that is one of the power sources). There you are with your PDA standing in a crowd, and someone close by starts yelling that you are stealing their energy, after all it is a personal resource just like the electricity the power company makes (and they have sued for less). Sound far fetched in this lawsuit happy society? I think not.

On the up side, now you could run things without environmentally hazardous batteries, power cords, or having to re-charge every few days. Place and forget hardware, or un-limited use hardware (at least until the new version comes out). I really like the idea of not having to change out batteries, or charge an item all the time. Interesting article none the less.

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