Mobile Phones: Soon To Be Powered By Walking

Like the watches and sensors, most of which are now being powered by kinetic energy, mobile phones will soon be powered by walking. This was revealed recently by the University of Wisconsin team in a published study journal on ‘Nature Communications'

‘'Humans, generally speaking, are very powerful energy-producing machines'' said Professor Tom Krupenkin from the university's Mechanical Engineering Department.

According reports, while sprinting, a person can produce as much as a kilowatt of power hence sprinting, or even walking is capable of generating enough energy to power a mobile phone. That, according to the scientist, is more than enough to power a standard mobile phone.

Although, similar methods exist for low power electronics, up until now there was no practical mechanical to electrical conversion technology that could provide such high levels of output, Prof. Krupenkin explained.

"What's been missing is the power in the watts range," said Dr Ashley Taylor, a colleague of Prof Krupenkin. "That's the power range needed for portable electronics."

Nigeria Plans Fixed Phone Licenses in 2013 to Spur Broadband:

Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, plans to give additional fixed-line telephone licenses next year to spur the expansion of broadband Internet infrastructure, the telecommunications regulator said.“The licenses will be issued to revive the fixed-line telecommunication services that have been comatose and will benefit our broadband...

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Why Internet Is Stil Expensive In Nigeria

Yes! the fiber optic cables Glo 1 and Main 1 capacity have landed in Lagos, they are at the shores of Lagos, The issue now is how to distribute it across the country, Also no inland fiber optic cables connecting the different regions yet, and this is quite expensive. the second problem is that we lack local content, unfortunately for Nigeria with all the huge presence in the internet we do not upload. For instance nearly all our websites are hosted in the UK. There are about two billion people that are connected right now in the world and Nigeria is among the top 10 countries connected, in terms of population. But its unfortunate we don't have the content, most of our content is hosted outside the country. This is one of the reasons for the high cost of internet. The third one is the huge operational cost especially power generation. Companies here spend so much money on power. Government need to improve on the infrastructure especially in power generation.