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If you can imagine a world of connected sensors embedded in walls, roads and consumer goods you probably don’t want to imagine having to change the battery on them every six months or year. Even as we build out more connected products we’re still limited by battery life. But at companies such as Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, ARM and many more, researchers are doing their best to make chips that can generate their own energy and then build out systems that can store and use that precious power.

Without delving into physics, energy is all around us, and the challenge for chip firms is figuring out how to capture enough energy and then to store it for usage later. Sources like solar or kinetic energy aren’t always available. An additional challenge is figuring out how to build sensors that can take advantage of the lower amounts of energy harvested by…

DFC Intelligence is releasing a new forecast on December 3rd in which they predict that the Wii U will reach global lifetime sales of 25 million units, only a quarter of what the Wii has sold, which passed 100 million units worldwide as of this year. These numbers would put the system closer in lifetime sales to the Gamecube, which sold 22 million units during its lifetime. In response to questions about whether it was a right move for Nintendo to release three big holiday titles in the midst of next-gen system launches, analyst David Cole had this to say:

“I think Nintendo is carving out a different audience. I think that being said it is the right strategy. The audience they are going after is not the ones that Sony and Microsoft are going after. Right now they need to go after Nintendo fans first. They should have done…

Nintendo of America has celebrated today as it has announced that the highly regarded Pokemon X & Y has reached the one million mark faster than any other Nintendo 3DS game to date. The company has also provided the infographic that you can see above which shows just how much Nintendo 3DS sales jumped with the release of the title. This is clearly good news for Nintendo’s latest handheld which has battled against tablets and smartphones.