Dippy birds are the toys that teeter-totter back and forth as the beak of bird-shaped body dips into a container of water. The felt covering the beak and head picks up water and, through evaporation, ...

The top-hatted “drinking bird,” once a fixture in science classrooms for demonstrating the basics of thermodynamics, is making a surprising comeback — as the inspiration for a new clean-energy ...

This Dippy Bird clock display is simple to build and it’s just waiting to be scaled up for use as a full clock. As shown there are only enough birds in this rendition to read out the hours. More tiers ...

How a “drinking bird” engine converts evaporation energy into kinetic motion. How to use a triboelectric nanogenerator to convert kinetic motion into electricity. How to generate over 100 V through ...

Inspired by the classic drinking bird toy, scientists in Hong Kong and Guangzhou, China have developed an engine that efficiently converts energy from water evaporation into electricity to power small ...