Mobitrends

Joby Energy has introduced a pretty incredible concept of a drone flying up in high atmosphere and when reaching the right altitude using the power of those super powerful wind to take a circular spin and transform the wind power in electricity tethered back to the ground. As weird as it may seem it’s actually plausible in the sense that all the technologies required exist, but they are so early stage that it sounds really quite incredible that there would be even close to a working prototype. The only thing I actually believe is that they can actually fly this thing – provided they have a powerful enough radio and the licence to use it !

The Power management space is definitely getting super-hot lately. Another day another announce with PowerZoa introducingtheir line of “cubes” which are:

Powerzoa cube is a smart plug that fits between your appliances and wall outlets. The cubes measure your energy usage and sends data to a personalized website where you can schedule appliances to turn on and off automatically, saving electricity, lowering energy costs and helping the environment.

While the website is hideous, it’s quite remarkable they had bot a power meter and a BPL chip fit into such a tiny package. We’re finally getting to what we were foreseeing with WaveStorm in 2007.

This is called the npower PEG from greenpower. It’s a bit big, but if you have a big girl’s bag you can hook one inside and charge your mobile as you go. Apparently, the device would charge your mobile in under one hour walk. One drawback though, the device has to remain in vertical position to be able to harvest energy efficiently.