December 1, 2013

Toymail - Kid Communication Tool

  Gauri Nanda, who is well known for her rolling alarm clock called Clocky has teamed up with her friend Audry Hill to build a new product called Toymail. It’s a fun way for people (parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, etc) to stay in contact with kids. The cute toy mailbox contains electronics which allows it to send messages back an forth to a smartphone app. If you hurry you

Ambient Backscatter - Wireless Power and Communication with No Batteries

    Today we have lots of battery free electronic devices such as RFID which in most cases gets powered wirelessly from the reader. What would the world of electronics be like if our small electronics that only consumed a small amount of energy could be powered by the RF signals that are already around us. Ambient Backscatter does just this and has an endless number of interesting applications. Just