University of Michigan doctoral student Xinyu Zhang and professor Kang Shin revealed Friday that they had developed a new power saving technique that could dramatically extend the battery life of smartphones and other mobile devices that use Wi-Fi. E-MiLi, or Energy-Minimizing Idle Listening, would dynamically drop the Wi-Fi chipset's clock speed down to a sixteenth of its normal speed and wakes up only when it can tell data is coming. While it had been thought of before and abandoned in the past, the new method would find a way to detect a header on an inbound mess
