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New Device Could Charge Your Smartphone As You Walk
You could generate the electricity needed to charge your smartphone just by walking around, with a new device called a triboelectric generator, researchers say.
Walking Can Recharge the Spirit, But What About Our Phones?
Wearable generators can supply portable, clean energy for powering our mobile devices.
Smartphone-Piloted Drones Could Support US Troops on Front Lines
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, is developing a military drone capable of avoiding hostile threats on the ground, such as ambushes and improvised explosive devices.
6 Types of Twitter Conversations Revealed
A new map of conversations formed on Twitter reveals that conversations on a topic can take six different shapes, which could be used by social media strategists to improve their reach.
How 24 Developing Countries Use Social Media
Internet users are still the minority in developing nations, but social media is already popular.
17 Developing Countries That Love Social Media More than the US
The U.S. is the birthplace of Facebook, but social networking is more popular among Internet users in more than a dozen developing countries.
