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Nokia never ceases to surprise us and recently the famous brand announced the Nokia E-Cu concept phone, a new mobile designed by Patrick Hyland that can convert body heat into electric energy using a copper exterior and a thermo-generator integrated interior. That means you’ll never need to take along a charger with you when the concept cell phones come into real ones one day, and hopefully we needn’t have to wait for too long a time. [Read the rest of this entry...]

This is a brilliant idea, not only for its unique wireless headphone shape which provides patients more autonomy, but also the battery-free structure. As a matter of fact, it is driven by our body heat and plus, with the help of solar panels, to get some extra juice from ambient light. [Read the rest of this entry...]

In order to cool the laptop in summer, most people will use a base cooler. However, this will surely increasing your power bill. Why not reuse this kind of heat for other purpose?

This brilliant concept could collect the heat from the base of normal laptop and then transferred to the mouse side as thermoelectricity. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Different from ordinary motherboard fan, this innovative product from MSI is driven by harvesting heat from the processor rather than electricity.

Video after the break. [Read the rest of this entry...]

This dress is from a Philips. It comes with two layers: the inner one could detect your emotion by the change of body temperature and sweat and send signal to the outer one to change color.

If you’re stress or angry, your dress gonna be red, if you’re calm, it gonna be green. In this way, you can express your emotion without saying. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Thermoelectric Generator (TEG) is not a new concept. Because of the requirement of huge degree difference, it is not effective in daily life. However, researchers from Fraunhofer Institute have developed a new circuitry system which could runs on a miniscule 200 millivolts based on the 0.5 degree difference. It means that, in the future, you can charge your portable device totally by your own body heat. [Read the rest of this entry...]