A triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) certainly sounds like the sort of thing you’d need to graduate from Starfleet Engineering to put together, but it actually operates on the same principle ...

Researchers show store-bought tape can power wearables by converting movement into electricity using a triboelectric ...

The device is a triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG)—a device that ... You could also imagine these devices being used in IoT-based self-powered smart systems like autonomous wireless operations ...