Recent News

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September 20, 2011
5 more tech breakthroughs in access, power, control | ComputerWorld

August 23, 2011
RF energy harvesting and wireless power | Electronic Products

July 28, 2011
Charge! Darpa Wants Wireless Power-Up for Troops’ Gadgets | WIRED

July 18, 2011
RF Energy Harvesting Perpetually Powers Wireless Sensors | EDN

July 18, 2011
RF Energy Harvesting Perpetually Powers Wireless Sensors | Wireless Design & Development

June 21, 2001
Sensors: More Than MEMS | EE Times

June 20, 2011
The Tinkerer’s Toolbox interview with Powercast on Energy Harvesting | ECN

June 6, 2011
Don Tuite on Powercast’s RF Energy Harvesting (Episode 15) | Engineering Radio

May 31, 2011
Battery Charged Remotely Using RF Power | Electronic Design
A review of the P2110-EVAL-02 Energy Harvesting Development Kit for Battery Charging

May 11, 2011
Cutting the (power) cord | ZDNet

May 5, 2011
Powercast Debuts Energy-Harvesting Wireless Sensor System | RFID Journal

April 29, 2011
Low-power architecture helps wireless sensing | Control Engineering

April 28, 2011
RF Energy Harvesting Extends Reach | Design News

April 27, 2011
Riding an RF Energy Harvester(PDF) | Nuts and Volts
A detailed review of the P2110-EVAL-01 Energy Harvesting Development Kit for Wireless Sensors

March 1, 2011
Energy Harvesting: Perpetual Power, Maintenance Free | Desktop Engineering

February 28, 2011
Sensor Networks Look To Radio Waves for Power | Design News

February 18, 2011
PIC Module Runs Off RF Power | Electronic Design

February 17, 2011
EDN 2010 Innovation Award finalists | EDN

February 11, 2011
RF-based Wireless Charging and Energy Harvesting Enables New Applications and Improves Product Design | Mouser

February 2, 2011
Energy Harvesting Suits Remote Low-Power Devices | ECN

January 26, 2011
Kit Harvests RF Energy | Design News

November 15, 2010
Receivers, Caps Harvest RF Energy | Microwaves & RF

August 5, 2010
Making Energy Harvesting’s Promise of Free Energy a Reality | Electronic Design

July 18, 2010
Bye-bye batteries: Radio waves as a low-power source | The New York Times

July 1, 2010
Sensors get a new role as energy scavengers | Energy Efficiency & Technology (EE&T)

July 1, 2010
Power Module and Double Layer Capacitor Harvest Energy from Radio Signals | Power Electronics Technology

June 10, 2010
Power from thin air | The Economist

June 9, 2010
RF-based energy harvesting is “back to the future” again, but with a twist | EE Times

June 9, 2010
Powercast demos prelude to mobile network RF energy harvester | EE Times

May 28, 2010
Extreme Processing: RF Energy Harvesting | Embedded Master - EDN

February 8, 2010
Unplugged: Goodbye cables, hello energy beams | New Scientist

October 20, 2009
The Brainstorm: Wireless Sensor Power Supplies | Product Design & Development

October 13, 2009
RF Energy Harvesting Enables Wireless Sensor Networks | SensorsMag.com

September 2, 2009
A cordless future for electricity? | CNN.com

August 27, 2009
The Brainstorm: Future Of Energy Harvesting | Product Design & Development

July 1, 2009
RF Power Harvesting | Product Design & Development

June 11, 2009
Sensors Announces “Best of Sensors Expo” Awards Winners | SensorsMag.com

June 2009
Energy Harvesting Advances | Automation World

May 20, 2009
nanoPower Forum Points to Practical Energy Harvesting | PowerPulse.Net

April 30, 2009
RF harvesting from ambient sources | IDTechEX

April 28, 2009
Is this the end of the wire? | The Gadget Show
[YouTube version]

March 1, 2009
Wireless power energizes wireless sensor networks | Industrial Embedded Systems

February 5, 2009
5 Ways to Recharge Gadgets Without Plugging In | US News & World Report

February 1, 2009
Wireless Electricity Is Here (Seriously) | Fast Company

January 2009
Slideshow: The 2009 Consumer Electronics Show in Pictures | IEEE Spectrum

January 2009
Video: The buzz on wireless electricity | NBC Today Show