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🎁 At CES 2022 in Las Vegas, which begins today, Samsung plans to unveil a new Eco TV remote that can harvest the RF waves emitted by your wireless router or indoor/outdoor light source and convert them into energy.
📺 A deeper dive… Like the previous generation of Eco remotes, Samsung’s latest version can also be charged via solar energy.
💭 Sorry to burst your bubble… For those of you envisioning a future where phones, laptops, or even cars are charged this way, you can stop dreaming – experts say charging via RF waves is really only practical for low-power devices like remotes.
Researchers at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University may have discovered a way to boost the range and battery life of EVs and other next-gen electronic devices, according to a study published late last month in Nature.
Stretch, a new autonomous robot from Boston Dynamics, is uniquely built to perform the worst job in the warehouse – unloading and stacking heavy boxes.
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