Cellphones will be charged on-the-run

Technology news and updates blog article

29th November 2007

The company M2E Power has reported on receiving large investments, which will be spent to commercialize the technology M2E (Motion-to-Energy). The essence of this technology is to transform the kinetic energy (the energy of a walking pedestrian, or even a moving car, wind and tidal waves) into electrical one, in accordance with the well-known principle of electromagnetic induction by M. Faraday.
The technology was originally developed in the Idaho Sate Laboratory on the money of the United States Department of Energy. M2E has interested the military, because in theory, its use can lessen mass of equipment an average soldier puts on. According to the developers, provided enough active movement, charging the mobile devices from out sources of energy can be lessened or rejected at all.
The company M2E Power has been included in the number of partners of EDGE General Dynamics.
$8 million, the money taken from investors, will be spent on promoting this technology to the civil market. It is planned, that initially, this technology will be used as an alternative means of charging cell phones and other mobile devices.