In the startup zone at CES, known as Eureka Park, prototype devices were in no short supply. One we wish would hurry on to the market is a miniature, wearable thermoelectric generator. The company responsible, Perpetua Power, gave us a closer look at the dime-sized TEG and a couple prototype devices.
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Aw, just develop a large enough device to plug into the Earth and be done! ;)
The picture in this article is really from a robotic watch and human wedding. It's just another new alternate life style, lol. The next picture, which PoPSCi left out, was the robotic watch slipping on a round interlocking interface onto the human finger to join the couple together and forever!
I just got a solar powered watch and now you tease me with this.