The One Thing That Could Stop The Internet Of Things

Remember the quick-to-run-out batteries that powered the toys of your youth? The ones that eventually leaked and wrecked your precious stuff? They've largely been banished by years of battery tech innovations that have made batteries longer lasting. But even our cleverest battery tech may be a huge weakness in Internet of Things devices, especially if we're going to be embedding them in wallpaper, burying them in plant pots, or sticking them in the labels of supermarket products. But there are, somewhat fabulously, some very clever innovations underway to get around this problem.