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Friday, February 8, 2008
Biomedical Energy Harvester Recharge your Mobile from Walk
A brisk walk might soon help bring a dead battery in a cellphone back to life. Researchers have developed a new device that will allow a person to generate electricity while walking. A team of engineers from three universities in Canada and the US has developed a biomedical energy harvester worn on the knees that turns the mechanical energy of human muscles into electricity.
In experiments, volunteers who walked with one prototype device on each knee generated about 5 watts of electricity — sufficient to power 10 typical cellphones simultaneously.
Full report here
In experiments, volunteers who walked with one prototype device on each knee generated about 5 watts of electricity — sufficient to power 10 typical cellphones simultaneously.
Full report here
Labels: Electronics-Communications-Engineering, Energy-Environment-Engineering
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