-From MSNBC News-

A tiny solar-powered sensor, smaller than Abe Lincoln’s head on a penny, can supply almost perpetual energy, its creators say.

The device contains solar cells, a battery and a processor, all in a package that measures 2.5 by 3.5 by 1 millimeters.

Daeyeon Kim

It could enable new biomedical implants as well as new devices to monitor buildings, bridges and homes. “It could vastly improve the efficiency and cost of current environmental sensor networks designed to detect movement or track air and water quality,” the developers said in a statement.

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