USB 2.0 storage and wearable energy
Corsair incredibly announced an USB 2.0 flash drive of 128 GB. On the chart it is able to win the “head-to-head” speed tests. It owns a fancy quad-channel architecture that it enables to read up to 34MB/sec and write up to 28MB/sec….
If you want to read more specs, please refer to this article from engaged.
However, a single field of technology is not so much interesting if taken alone. In the specific case I want to introduce you a great news that astonished me: we are now able to catch and store about 80% of energy that comes from movements. How? Thanks to a new brand piezo material called PZT, made of nano-sized fibers of lead zirconate titanate, applied over a thin ribbons of flexible silicone rubber. Here the reference article. Of course there isn’t -yet- any practical application but you know, humans are incredible right to their capability to turn dreams true.
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