Battery-Free, Energy-Harvesting Perpetual Machines: The Weird Future of Computing

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This Game Boy has no batteries. It's the future of computing, writes mims.

In the not-too-distant future, technologists say, most computers will be tiny, ubiquitous, and won’t ever need new batteries—because they won’t have any. Their latest proof is a highly unusual Nintendo Game Boy.

Custom designed to run entirely without batteries, the hand-held gaming device is powered by small solar panels as well as the button presses of the person playing it. That’s right: Even after the apocalypse, survivors will at least have “Tetris.”

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