{"id":90995,"date":"2016-05-18T09:01:17","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T07:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=90995"},"modified":"2016-05-18T09:02:27","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T07:02:27","slug":"incredible-new-mini-computer-doesnt-require-any-power-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/90995-incredible-new-mini-computer-doesnt-require-any-power-source","title":{"rendered":"Incredible new mini-computer doesn’t require any power source"},"content":{"rendered":"

A team of researchers<\/strong> <\/a>from the University of Washington\u2019s Sensor Lab have come up with a computer that doesn’t require any battery source, the WISP.<\/p>\n

The WISP, (Wireless Identification and Sensing Platforms) is solely powered by radio waves.<\/strong><\/p>\n

No special equipment is required other than a readily-available RFID transmitter and the onboard processor.<\/p>\n

The WISP obviously won’t be powering your consoles or desktop PC’s but it does have roughly the same power as a fitbit watch. This equates to a computer\u00a0 that is orders of magnitude larger than ones which previously required no external power.<\/p>\n

It also has a unique communication feature\u00a0which allows you to\u00a0send data between two WISP devices, as the computer backscatters <\/a><\/strong>the incoming radio signals to communicate with a series of blips, a bit\u00a0like Morse code.<\/p>\n

While we could see the technology making its way into consumer-electronics, the WISP will most likely first be used outdoors, monitoring for earthquakes or for when to water your plants.<\/p>\n