In the near future, your furniture could recycle heat to charge your phone

Photo via Space10/Heat Harvest project
Amazon’s new campus will recycle heat from servers and repurpose it to warm its new buildings, but smaller developments of recycling wasted heat energy in the home are on the near horizon, too. Innovation and design studio Space10 in Copenhagen is working with IKEA to develop ideas to harness wasted energy in the home. In the video, watch two students from the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction, Sergey Komardenkov and Vihanga Gore, explain their work — a table that harnesses the power of excess heat to power devices. They call it “Heat Harvest,” and it can turn the average table into a charging station.… Read More
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