The very idea: Kitchen gadgets powered by microwave leaks

(Phys.org) —Can your microwave oven power other gadgets in your kitchen? That is the question explored in the paper, "Power Harvesting from Microwave Oven Electromagnetic Leakage," by researchers from the University of Tokyo in Tokyo and Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. They presented their work at the Conference on Ubiquitous Computing in Zurich earlier this month. "In this paper," said Yoshihiro Kawahara, an associate professor in the field of ubiquitous computing at the University of Tokyo. and colleagues, "we present the feasibility of harvesting and storing a small amount of leaked energy from a microwave oven and operate low-power devices without battery in a domestic environment."

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