January 29, 2025 • 11 mins
Say goodbye to batteries! On this episode of The Tech Zone, Paul Amadeus Lane explores the groundbreaking Gemns technology from WePower Technologies live from CES 2025. Joining Paul is Danielle Hicks, [Danielle's Title at WePower Technologies], who provides an inside look at this revolutionary energy harvesting solution.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
And this world of technology, things that ever changing, rearranging
that you need someone to help you out.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
I need someone that can be alone.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
You'll be with Paul.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
I'm a days lane in the Tech Zone.
Speaker 4 (00:17):
Welcome back to the Tech Zone. It's been Paul on
a day's Lane. I hope you are enjoying our cover.
Here at ES twenty twenty five, I got a chance
to see some pretty amazing innovation. I've seen some robots.
I have seen innovation that allows you to make sure
(00:39):
you have your food cooking at the right temperature. I've
also seen some innovation that can make bubbling water on
the go. So imagine that you don't have to have
a big soda string to make bubbling water.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
You can take it with you.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
It's pretty awesome when I saw that, you know, just
the little things that kind of turned me on.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
You know, so I appreciate that.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
But there are also some innovations that I wanted to
share with you today. And I'm joined by a very
special guest to tell me what her company is doing
and why they're here at CEES. So we're talking about
the amazing Danielle Hicks. She is joining me right now,
and she don't talk about her company, We Power. Danielle,
what's happening, Welcome to the show.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
How are you.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
I'm good, Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Hey, great to have you with me. So what's it
like being here at CES?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
A little overwhelming? This is the most people I've ever
seen in one place in my entire life.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
I remember my first ES. It was many, many years ago.
I'm not gonna date myself, but I remember being here
for the first time and I was just like, whoa,
this is pretty cool. And that's when it only was
just here at the convention Center. They didn't have the
Eureka Park, they didn't have the other areas. It was
just here at the convention Center. And I think it
was before. I think it was just Central South and
(01:59):
maybe North because the West Hall wasn't even built then.
But to see where it's at today, it's like, wow,
it is huge. So yeah, So tell us about we Power.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
So.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
We Power Technology specializes in micro scale energy harvesting. So
we're on a mission to replace batteries by taking the
motions from everyday action such as pushing a button or
flipping a switch, and using that motion to power device
or send a signal.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Wow. That is pretty awesome.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
So Danielle, see I'm sitting on some batteries, so you mean,
do you got something for me too?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Possibly? All right, all right, I'm with that. I've definitely
with that.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
And when we look about this innovation right here, it
falls under my category. So have my own categories of tech.
So my category of tech for good being able to
use things that can enhance our lives and make it better.
And what was the reason why this company was built
in the first time? Was it first place? Was it
something that the founders and the powers that be saw
(03:01):
that there was a need that needed to happen, and
based on that need, they were like, hey, we're going
to tackle.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
That head on.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Well, the i mean, batteries are especially the smaller batteries
are toxic to the environment as well as I mean,
people don't recycle them properly. They're not They're getting changed constantly,
so you have to monitor it. That's a lot of
upkeep on any type of IoT device. So being able
to replace those is really the way of the future
(03:29):
and being able to support a green future environment.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Yeah, that really makes sense.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
You know, we can I'm from California and we can
see what's going on with the fires down there to
to show that it's time to stop playing games with
the environment. The environment is telling us with a very
loud voice, something is wrong, something needs to happen. And
I'm so delighted when I see tech companies out there
(03:55):
who are making sure that they are looking at the
environment in ways that they can that they can improve that.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
And what's been the feedback?
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Like here Cees when one's who are coming to your
boothy and you're over at the Eurekapark.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Correct, No, we're in the North Hall north All You're okay, alright?
So it all right, it's nice. So what's been the feedback?
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Everyone is really excited about it once we explain it.
There's definitely a learning curve on the how do you
do that? Wait, there's no batteries, there's no wires. What
that can't possibly work? And then when we show them
in action, because we've got several live demos over at
the booth, it's very eye opening and everyone gets very
excited about it.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Well, I'm gonna be like those people. How do you
make it happen?
Speaker 3 (04:37):
So it's powered by magnetic magnets. So if you've ever
taken two magnets and put them on opposing ends. You
can feel that push where they're trying to get away
from each other. So it takes that motion of the
reversing the polarities and that generates the energy to cold
start the processor, send the signal and transmit data.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Wow, how did you how did you figure out that
that somebody this would work?
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Well, we didn't actually come up with the idea. Our
founder and CEO is a venture capitalist angel investor, and
he was approached by the original founder with the idea
and he was looking for funding and he said, you know,
this is amazing technology. I'm interested in it, and he
ended up buying the company when that guy stepped out.
(05:27):
And in the five years sense they've really perfected it
and this is the year where it's ready to be
implemented in all every day devices.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
That's pretty amazing.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
And you talk about smaller batteries and if we can't,
let's uh, let's kind of delve into to the uses
of every lay life. Which area would ones use these
type of smaller batteries? Can you mind you might share
that with us?
Speaker 3 (05:48):
So some of the examples we've got worked up in
our booth right now, we have a leak detector which
is very small. It's about an inch and a half
or two inches wide by half an inch high, and
you can play stat anywhere because it's powered by batteries.
Once you set it up, it couldn't last indefinitely, and
once it detects any sort of leak, that releases the
(06:11):
energy because it's preloaded to let you know there's a leak.
So rather than having to have it hardwired or have
batteries in there which die and then you forget all
about that, you put that leaked sensor in your basement right,
and then you could have a leak or a flood
and the batteries are dead. You'd never get notified about it.
This would last indefinitely and then it can be re
(06:32):
powered as what again, you can just use the magnet
tree to set it back up and put it back
down once you've cleaned the leak up. We've also got
door monitors to let you know whether the door has
been open or closed when it was open and closed,
which is great for home alarms as well as industrial.
A lot of businesses they want to know, you know,
maybe this is a secure part of the building. How
many times is this door being opened or closed, or
(06:54):
if somebody's going into the server room and that kind
of thing. We can put them on win windows. We've
got vibration harvesting for monitoring machinery or engines, as well
as industrial push buttons and lighting controls.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
My creative juices start going when you talked about door monitoring,
and I think about our elderly and aging population and
even disabled population like myself, especially if someone's like at
home and being able to know if mom or Dad
opened that door, if they're dealing with some type of dementia,
(07:37):
our other type of cognizant problems to be.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Alerted, like wait a minute, was mom's doing?
Speaker 4 (07:43):
What's dad doing over there? And let me send somebody
over there to see what's going on.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
You know.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
I look at you use cases like that, and to me,
this guy is a woman and maybe somebody's a parent,
you know, and they tell their child, make sure you
stay home, don't sneak out, don't go to the club,
and they open that window and go to the club.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Mom and dad would know about that.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
And what's really interesting about the harvester we have in
the door sensor is its dual polarity, so it cannot
only tell you that the door has been open or closed.
It can tell you if it's open or closed.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Wow, that's pretty amazing. Any other use case, I.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Mean, it could be anything that has any type of motion.
It could be used FORUL So those are just the
live examples we have mocked up in our booths in
the North Hall. But it could go in car doors
for a window or mirror controls. So you don't have
those wires going through so you need to replace the
door in your car, and it's already all hooked up
and working because everything is powered by the magnets. I mean,
(08:41):
it could be gate control. Anything that has any type
of motion could possibly be powered by this technology.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Fascinating, great, fascinating. And Danielle, what made you and the
company want to come? Come to see? Yes, the super
Bowl of Technology. They really show off this innovation.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
This is our third CEES as the company, but this
is just the place to be for and showing new
technology to a wider audience and meeting up with other
companies that could implement our technology into their products.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
And Danielle, are these products available right now?
Speaker 3 (09:21):
So we license the technology and we're working with several
large companies specifically. First, the first one to market will
be the leak detector in twenty twenty five. Several companies
are licensing that technology to put into their products.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
So it's powered by we Power.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Right, and we call the technology as trademarked as GEMS gems.
I love that, Yeah, so it's GEMS technology.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
How'd you guys come up with that name?
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Well, it was kind of like the gem of tech,
like the technology and energy harvesting, right, But GEM is
never going to be available to be able to trademark,
so we were like, let's put it own. Its silent
and like, dam I like that.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
I like that.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Whenever I hear the word Jim, I think of the
old cartoon. You know, gim is truly alady, It's truly truly. Yeah,
but but it's catchy. Yeah, and and we can all
we can always remember anything else they like to share
with the with the audience, the tech world, just about
maybe your cees experience are being here with with WE
Power and and just the experience how it's been so far.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
It's definitely exciting to see what other companies are doing
as far as what the next wave of technology is.
And I'm excited to see a lot of that come
to life, including seeing our own technology start to power
with all the devices that you use every day.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Now, how can ones continue to find out some of
the cool things that that we Power is doing, that
that that gyms is doing.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Any website or anything you want to give out there?
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Absolutely, I mean we're on LinkedIn. We post regularly updates
and information about our technology on LinkedIn under we Power Technologies,
and we've got our website gems g E m ns
dot com.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
That is awesome.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
Danielle Hicks, thank you so much for joining us here
on the Tech Zone here as twenty twenty five, Danielle
is the VP of Marketing, so she is the source
of all information and we appreciate having you and look
forward to catching up with you soon post.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Show as well. All right, thank you, all right everyone,
so thank you so much for tuning in for our updates.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
We appreciate sharing all this amazing innovation with you, and
stay tuned we will have more.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
So enjoy what you're doing right now and we'll be
And it's well.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
The technology that have a changing rearranging that you need
someone to help you out. I know someone that.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Can be alone.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
You'll be with i'm the days laying in the tech
zone
And this world of technology, things that ever changing, rearranging
that you need someone to help you out.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
I need someone that can be alone.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
You'll be with Paul.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
I'm a days lane in the Tech Zone.
Speaker 4 (00:17):
Welcome back to the Tech Zone. It's been Paul on
a day's Lane. I hope you are enjoying our cover.
Here at ES twenty twenty five, I got a chance
to see some pretty amazing innovation. I've seen some robots.
I have seen innovation that allows you to make sure
(00:39):
you have your food cooking at the right temperature. I've
also seen some innovation that can make bubbling water on
the go. So imagine that you don't have to have
a big soda string to make bubbling water.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
You can take it with you.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
It's pretty awesome when I saw that, you know, just
the little things that kind of turned me on.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
You know, so I appreciate that.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
But there are also some innovations that I wanted to
share with you today. And I'm joined by a very
special guest to tell me what her company is doing
and why they're here at CEES. So we're talking about
the amazing Danielle Hicks. She is joining me right now,
and she don't talk about her company, We Power. Danielle,
what's happening, Welcome to the show.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
How are you.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
I'm good, Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Hey, great to have you with me. So what's it
like being here at CES?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
A little overwhelming? This is the most people I've ever
seen in one place in my entire life.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
I remember my first ES. It was many, many years ago.
I'm not gonna date myself, but I remember being here
for the first time and I was just like, whoa,
this is pretty cool. And that's when it only was
just here at the convention Center. They didn't have the
Eureka Park, they didn't have the other areas. It was
just here at the convention Center. And I think it
was before. I think it was just Central South and
(01:59):
maybe North because the West Hall wasn't even built then.
But to see where it's at today, it's like, wow,
it is huge. So yeah, So tell us about we Power.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
So.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
We Power Technology specializes in micro scale energy harvesting. So
we're on a mission to replace batteries by taking the
motions from everyday action such as pushing a button or
flipping a switch, and using that motion to power device
or send a signal.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Wow. That is pretty awesome.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
So Danielle, see I'm sitting on some batteries, so you mean,
do you got something for me too?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Possibly? All right, all right, I'm with that. I've definitely
with that.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
And when we look about this innovation right here, it
falls under my category. So have my own categories of tech.
So my category of tech for good being able to
use things that can enhance our lives and make it better.
And what was the reason why this company was built
in the first time? Was it first place? Was it
something that the founders and the powers that be saw
(03:01):
that there was a need that needed to happen, and
based on that need, they were like, hey, we're going
to tackle.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
That head on.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Well, the i mean, batteries are especially the smaller batteries
are toxic to the environment as well as I mean,
people don't recycle them properly. They're not They're getting changed constantly,
so you have to monitor it. That's a lot of
upkeep on any type of IoT device. So being able
to replace those is really the way of the future
(03:29):
and being able to support a green future environment.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Yeah, that really makes sense.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
You know, we can I'm from California and we can
see what's going on with the fires down there to
to show that it's time to stop playing games with
the environment. The environment is telling us with a very
loud voice, something is wrong, something needs to happen. And
I'm so delighted when I see tech companies out there
(03:55):
who are making sure that they are looking at the
environment in ways that they can that they can improve that.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
And what's been the feedback?
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Like here Cees when one's who are coming to your
boothy and you're over at the Eurekapark.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Correct, No, we're in the North Hall north All You're okay, alright?
So it all right, it's nice. So what's been the feedback?
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Everyone is really excited about it once we explain it.
There's definitely a learning curve on the how do you
do that? Wait, there's no batteries, there's no wires. What
that can't possibly work? And then when we show them
in action, because we've got several live demos over at
the booth, it's very eye opening and everyone gets very
excited about it.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Well, I'm gonna be like those people. How do you
make it happen?
Speaker 3 (04:37):
So it's powered by magnetic magnets. So if you've ever
taken two magnets and put them on opposing ends. You
can feel that push where they're trying to get away
from each other. So it takes that motion of the
reversing the polarities and that generates the energy to cold
start the processor, send the signal and transmit data.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Wow, how did you how did you figure out that
that somebody this would work?
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Well, we didn't actually come up with the idea. Our
founder and CEO is a venture capitalist angel investor, and
he was approached by the original founder with the idea
and he was looking for funding and he said, you know,
this is amazing technology. I'm interested in it, and he
ended up buying the company when that guy stepped out.
(05:27):
And in the five years sense they've really perfected it
and this is the year where it's ready to be
implemented in all every day devices.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
That's pretty amazing.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
And you talk about smaller batteries and if we can't,
let's uh, let's kind of delve into to the uses
of every lay life. Which area would ones use these
type of smaller batteries? Can you mind you might share
that with us?
Speaker 3 (05:48):
So some of the examples we've got worked up in
our booth right now, we have a leak detector which
is very small. It's about an inch and a half
or two inches wide by half an inch high, and
you can play stat anywhere because it's powered by batteries.
Once you set it up, it couldn't last indefinitely, and
once it detects any sort of leak, that releases the
(06:11):
energy because it's preloaded to let you know there's a leak.
So rather than having to have it hardwired or have
batteries in there which die and then you forget all
about that, you put that leaked sensor in your basement right,
and then you could have a leak or a flood
and the batteries are dead. You'd never get notified about it.
This would last indefinitely and then it can be re
(06:32):
powered as what again, you can just use the magnet
tree to set it back up and put it back
down once you've cleaned the leak up. We've also got
door monitors to let you know whether the door has
been open or closed when it was open and closed,
which is great for home alarms as well as industrial.
A lot of businesses they want to know, you know,
maybe this is a secure part of the building. How
many times is this door being opened or closed, or
(06:54):
if somebody's going into the server room and that kind
of thing. We can put them on win windows. We've
got vibration harvesting for monitoring machinery or engines, as well
as industrial push buttons and lighting controls.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
My creative juices start going when you talked about door monitoring,
and I think about our elderly and aging population and
even disabled population like myself, especially if someone's like at
home and being able to know if mom or Dad
opened that door, if they're dealing with some type of dementia,
(07:37):
our other type of cognizant problems to be.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Alerted, like wait a minute, was mom's doing?
Speaker 4 (07:43):
What's dad doing over there? And let me send somebody
over there to see what's going on.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
You know.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
I look at you use cases like that, and to me,
this guy is a woman and maybe somebody's a parent,
you know, and they tell their child, make sure you
stay home, don't sneak out, don't go to the club,
and they open that window and go to the club.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Mom and dad would know about that.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
And what's really interesting about the harvester we have in
the door sensor is its dual polarity, so it cannot
only tell you that the door has been open or closed.
It can tell you if it's open or closed.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Wow, that's pretty amazing. Any other use case, I.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Mean, it could be anything that has any type of motion.
It could be used FORUL So those are just the
live examples we have mocked up in our booths in
the North Hall. But it could go in car doors
for a window or mirror controls. So you don't have
those wires going through so you need to replace the
door in your car, and it's already all hooked up
and working because everything is powered by the magnets. I mean,
(08:41):
it could be gate control. Anything that has any type
of motion could possibly be powered by this technology.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Fascinating, great, fascinating. And Danielle, what made you and the
company want to come? Come to see? Yes, the super
Bowl of Technology. They really show off this innovation.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
This is our third CEES as the company, but this
is just the place to be for and showing new
technology to a wider audience and meeting up with other
companies that could implement our technology into their products.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
And Danielle, are these products available right now?
Speaker 3 (09:21):
So we license the technology and we're working with several
large companies specifically. First, the first one to market will
be the leak detector in twenty twenty five. Several companies
are licensing that technology to put into their products.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
So it's powered by we Power.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Right, and we call the technology as trademarked as GEMS gems.
I love that, Yeah, so it's GEMS technology.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
How'd you guys come up with that name?
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Well, it was kind of like the gem of tech,
like the technology and energy harvesting, right, But GEM is
never going to be available to be able to trademark,
so we were like, let's put it own. Its silent
and like, dam I like that.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
I like that.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Whenever I hear the word Jim, I think of the
old cartoon. You know, gim is truly alady, It's truly truly. Yeah,
but but it's catchy. Yeah, and and we can all
we can always remember anything else they like to share
with the with the audience, the tech world, just about
maybe your cees experience are being here with with WE
Power and and just the experience how it's been so far.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
It's definitely exciting to see what other companies are doing
as far as what the next wave of technology is.
And I'm excited to see a lot of that come
to life, including seeing our own technology start to power
with all the devices that you use every day.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Now, how can ones continue to find out some of
the cool things that that we Power is doing, that
that that gyms is doing.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Any website or anything you want to give out there?
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Absolutely, I mean we're on LinkedIn. We post regularly updates
and information about our technology on LinkedIn under we Power Technologies,
and we've got our website gems g E m ns
dot com.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
That is awesome.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
Danielle Hicks, thank you so much for joining us here
on the Tech Zone here as twenty twenty five, Danielle
is the VP of Marketing, so she is the source
of all information and we appreciate having you and look
forward to catching up with you soon post.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Show as well. All right, thank you, all right everyone,
so thank you so much for tuning in for our updates.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
We appreciate sharing all this amazing innovation with you, and
stay tuned we will have more.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
So enjoy what you're doing right now and we'll be
And it's well.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
The technology that have a changing rearranging that you need
someone to help you out. I know someone that.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Can be alone.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
You'll be with i'm the days laying in the tech
zone
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