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This actually seems like it has potential application if they could be safe enough. As we get the last drops of power efficiency out of Moore's Law, we might en

This actually seems like it has potential application if they could be safe enough. As we get the last drops of power efficiency out of Moore's Law, we might end up being able to get a useful amount of compute out of a tiny amount of energy. This could enable things like ambient sensors that never need replaced. Shower a country with a million microSD-sized soil sensors that run for decades and you have a real-time agricultural monitoring system.

benjohnson 7y ago
It's getting possible now - there's devices that 'harvest' ambient radio waves to power themselves - here's a device that has a full Bluetooth stack: https://9to5mac.com/2019/01/15/battery-free-bluetooth-sticker-chip/ https://9to5mac.com/2019/01/15/battery-free-bluetooth-sticke...