Cell phones are the "black hole" of gadgets. Other stand-alone gadgets get sucked into
phones, their functionality duplicated in phones, and replaced — PDAs, wristwatches, calculators and, in the future, MP3 players, TV remote control units and more. But the best feature you could possibly put into a cell phone — or any other gadget for that matter — is technology that would enable it to charge itself without being plugged in.
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft is an alliance of more than 50 research institutions, mostly in Germany, that pool their research and collaborate on innovative technology. Personal Tech Pipeline | Blog