Although not yet powerful enough to drive everyday products like cell phones or digital cameras, an emerging generation of thin, flexible, paper-based batteries is now finding a home powering tiny label displays, smart cards, RFID tags and other mobile devices requiring only modest amounts of energy. To learn more about printed batteries and the technology's design applications, Contributing Editor John Edwards recently spoke with Gary Johnson, president and CEO of Blue Spark, a printed battery vendor located in Westlake, Ohio.

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