Sony extracts power from cardboard

[hanselthecaretaker]

Apparently enough to run a music player-

Sony Extracts Power From Cardboard


Don't know how this could be used practically but still interesting to see new alternative energy sources being discovered.

 

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[kx250rider]

Sony has some incredible engineers, and I wouldn't be completely surprised if they improved on that experiment, and did something with it. Interesting tidbit about the Sony Trinitron tube, which was probably the best CRT over all for 40 years: Philco demonstrated a one-gun color CRT basically the same as a Trinitron in 1950, but nobody in the USA could figure out how to perfect it. Sony bought the rights to it in the mid 1960s, and introduced the Trinitron in '67 ('68 for the USA). They also perfected the video cassette (first with the uMatic and then Betamax), when the USA (Ampex and Bell Laboratories) was unable to make a video tape recorder much smaller than a Toyota. If it can be done, Sony will do it before others can figure it out...

Charles

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

Sony has some incredible engineers, and I wouldn't be completely surprised if they improved on that experiment, and did something with it. Interesting tidbit about the Sony Trinitron tube, which was probably the best CRT over all for 40 years: Philco demonstrated a one-gun color CRT basically the same as a Trinitron in 1950, but nobody in the USA could figure out how to perfect it. Sony bought the rights to it in the mid 1960s, and introduced the Trinitron in '67 ('68 for the USA). They also perfected the video cassette (first with the uMatic and then Betamax), when the USA (Ampex and Bell Laboratories) was unable to make a video tape recorder much smaller than a Toyota. If it can be done, Sony will do it before others can figure it out...

Charles

I actually saw an old Trinitron last week in a house we looked at buying.

This is also why I prefer their video games lol. Their in-house studios are some of the best in the industry at making their hardware sing.

 

[mrplunkey]

I still remember when Sony introduced the flat screen CRT -- I was in college. We got one for our lab and it just didn't look right to me since I'd spent my entire life looking at rounded screens.