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Re:With a simple piece of paper, engineers create self-power... by retox on Sunday September 06, 2020 @06:13PM (#24395081)
From the headline I thought it was related to a video I saw years ago for a television remote control from a French (I think) hardware engineer. It was only a prototype but it replaced the batteries with a piezoelectric mechanism that generated enough of a charge from physically depressing the button to send the infrared signal. Probably not enough power there to reliably send a bluetooth signal though.
Re:With a simple piece of paper, engineers create self-power... by pontifier on Monday September 07, 2020 @06:07AM (#24398233)
There are wireless (rf)light switches that use that mechanism so as to not need batteries.