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The lack of details is infuriating. It makes it sound like they implemented a compliant bluetooth chip at 1/1000th the cost size and power of commercial solutio

The lack of details is infuriating. It makes it sound like they implemented a compliant bluetooth chip at 1/1000th the cost size and power of commercial solutions.

shakna 6y ago
The actual paper [0] does have some decent details, though it is somewhat heavy. [0] https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoen.2020.105301 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoen.2020.105301
- davidhyde 6y ago
  Too bad they published it through Elsevier. I would have liked to read their paper.
  - CamperBob2 6y ago
    That's what sci-hub.tw is for.
    - sebmellen 6y ago
      Doesn't appear to be there yet. See https://sci-hub.tw/10.1016/j.nanoen.2020.105301 https://sci-hub.tw/10.1016/j.nanoen.2020.105301.
Palomides 6y ago
from skimming the paper, the big advance here is a moisture/oil resistant "triboelectric nanogenerator", which generates energy from touch or vibration, and they could get stable power out of it long enough to do a bluetooth transmission with a standard (conventional) bluetooth chip (an adafruit bluefruit, apparently) the moisture/oil resistant part is a big deal for actually using it in the real world