Converting Body Movements Into Electricity

[KrossX]

Converting Body Movements Into Electricity

It may not seem like it, but even the laziest of couch potatoes is a human dynamo. The act of breathing — of moving the ribs to draw air into the lungs and expel it — can generate about a watt of power. And if the potato actually gets up off the couch and walks briskly across the room, each heel strike can produce even more power, about 70 watts’ worth.

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A first application might be in shoes, to produce enough power to keep a music player or phone charged. But the eventual goal would be to make a flexible power generator that could be implanted in the chest or elsewhere.

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Yay for on-the-move-rechargeable media players!

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If you exercise, your gadgets will never run out of power. Keep in shape everyone, it will halve our energy needs

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[Dennemark]

DO WANT DO WANT DO WANT DO WANT

I CAN POWER MY AMP WITH THIS TECHNOLOGY OMFGOMFGOMFGOMFG

Seriously though, i really like the concept. Im just wondering how damaging it is for the human body in case of a malfunction, or what it does to you over a long period of time.

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Originally Posted by Kirby

one time I wasted my master ball on one

then I let mewtwo get away....I was suck a dumbass

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[KrossX]

How damaging.....? Well, on the shoes... might give you a shock or two, making you fall in the middle of the street. But, since it's considered to be used on the chest too, then perhaps you could have a first hand defibrillator experience. If this ends up being very powerful that is.

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[Cheesus]

I'd be absolutely thrilled if something like this hits the consumer market in the near future.

I'd happily fork out some extra cash in exchange for being able to charge my phone by simply walking to school or work.

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[Fadingz]

It's piezoelectrics, same thing that sparks the gas stove top :]
Shouldn't cause any harmful radiation damage, but the material may be toxic, I don't know what they use.

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[Fadingz]

Ahh, PDMS, it should be safe, it's not biodegradable, which will corrode very very slowly over time.
PDMS is similar to glass, but it's soft.

didn't look into since I don't want plant something funky into myself
and PDMS breaks easily with shear stress (takes a lot of compression, however), so I don't want any lead coming out xD

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[SCHUMI_4EVER]

Didn't the Wachowski brother already tell us we produce electricity like 10 years ago? Why are we only trying to utilise it now?

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[Dennemark]

We propably have been trying to for the last 10 years, just that we only now have a working prototype for a possible application for the concept of body2power.

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Originally Posted by Kirby

one time I wasted my master ball on one

then I let mewtwo get away....I was suck a dumbass

Take the Magic: The Gathering 'What Color Are You?' Quiz.

[Alan502]

Great! either this or wireless electricity had to come first

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[Fadingz]

wireless electricity = optic, plasmonic, or lightning

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[verboten999]

Wow, this is a great concept indeed. I would also like to have my batteries charged while I walk to the office and back. Handy when you don't see any electric socket anywhere.

[KrossX]

Run Forrest run!! Charge those batteries!!

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[raksmey1309]

I am no slave nuclear >3

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[Fadingz]

but you better do enough exercise at once so that you can charge battery to full at once, or you will build up battery memory, which will shorten the battery time xD~

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