I’m familiar with the Windmill ($45; www.rei.com), an extremely high-quality butane lighter that has a Piezo igniter (electric, no flint) and a ceramic insert that actually glows when the lighter is ...

The piezoelectric part of a kitchen gas lighter has used this easy, nonetheless effective seismic detector. The piezo part should be mounted vertically, one finish firmly to the bottom. A weight of 2 ...

Summer in the Northern hemisphere means outdoor cooking. Matches are old school, and you are more likely to use a piezoelectric lighter to start your grill. [Steve Mould] has one, but he didn’t ...

A new, inexpensive method to 'print' large-scale sheets of two dimensional (2D) piezoelectric material offers tremendous opportunity for new piezo-sensors and energy harvesting. Researchers have ...

Piezoelectricity is the ability of some materials such as crystals and certain ceramics, to generate an electric potential in response to applied mechanical stress or heat. If the piezo crystals are ...