M2E Power Charges Your Mobile Phone by Movement
Idaho based M2E power has recently been working to bring kinetic energy to mobile phones. Kinetic energy has been used to power watches for some time now and M2E sees potential for it to be used for mobile phone chargers and eventually in the phones themselves. M2E is expected to announce an external charger later this month or early next month.
The technology, which operates on Faraday's law of induction, creates energy by passing a magnet through a conductive coil. According to M2E, the "technology is based on a generator function and is best measured by power created over time with a certain type of motion." M2E has designed a system that supposedly can deliver from 300 to 700 percent more energy than currently available kinetic energy systems. Their design uses a small magnet and coil generator and traditional battery storage technology. The system can capture very low frequency kinetic energy, which includes typical human motion, so walking or swinging your arms produces energy to charge your mobile devices. M2E is currently working on motion powered military products that should appear on the field in 2009. The company plans to develop motion powered batteries that will be just as good, if not better than everyday D-cell, AA or AAA batteries.
Although it will probably be sometime before our devices are powered simply by walking with them in our pockets, this technology is pretty exciting and seems to have enormous potential. According to M2E, "the impending impact of MEMS (MicroElectroMechanical Systems) will be both exciting and far ranging.” It has plans to apply the technology to areas such as wind and automotive power among others. In all the excitement over this technology, M2E somehow neglects to mention its environmental friendliness factor.
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