How much energy can dust-sized computers harvest from sun and motion, and how much work can they do with it?
by Cory Doctorow from on (#272PK)
Pete Warden reports in from the ARM Research Summit, where James Myers presented on "energy harvesting" by microscopic computers -- that is, using glints of sunlight and the jostling of motion from bumping into things or riding on our bodies to provide power for computation. (more")