Charging Smartphones Using Urine
It has happened to most, if not all of us: the little bleep as your battery dies, just as you have to make an important call or send a hilarious text response to someone... Well, we learned this week that this could become a thing of the past, as scientists working at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory, which is a collaboration between the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) and the University of Bristol, have developed a novel way of charging mobile phones using urine as the power source to generate electricity. Dr Ioannis Ieropoulos is a Senior Research Fellow ...
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