Tag: Human-Powered
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Viruses Create Electricity with New Gadget-Charging Technology
Researchers have figured out how to use viruses to create electricity in a new piezoelectric technology that could power small electronics through human movement.
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Device Turns Your Sneaker into a Portable Cell Phone Charger
A piezoelectric technology developed by a Kenyan inventor uses your shoe to charge your gadgets while you walk.
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More Fun Without Electricity: A Roller Slide In Kanagawa
This looks like fun, and is beautifully filmed.
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When Your Dress Transports You, Fashion Design Morphed With Mobility (Photos)
Imagine your dress becomes your means of transportation! This was the briefing the students at the Istituto Europeo di Design (IED) in Barcelona received from BMW. The result are 5 concepts for future mobility
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CES 2011: Powerful Bike-Powered Light and Charger by Jooyn
There's always a handful of interesting pedal-powered things at CES. This charger by Jooyn looks especially nice. It is a rear-wheel generator that can power bike lights and speaker system, and can charge up other devices with
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Human-Powered Snow Vehicle Zips You Over Hills In Silence
Dashing through the snow...on a human-powered sleigh...over the hills we go...laughing all the way. Err....
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Exclusive Preview: Urbikes Trapper, the First Intelligent Electric Public Bicycle Sharing Systems
What characteristics should the perfect public bicycle have? A minimum of mechanical maintenance, maintenance-free shaft transmission, solid tires to avoid punctures, a theft-free design and an
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Barcelona Design Week 2010: D-Lab's 4 Designs Against Poverty (Photos + Videos)
At today's lecture "Facing New Challenges Through Design" as part of Barcelona Design Week, I had the pleasure to come across some more projects by D-Lab, presented by Victor Grau Serrat from
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Pedal-Powered Washing Machine Gets Big Company Backing
Bike-powered washing machines aren't a new idea; however, at least one big appliance company is backing up the idea. Haier, an large electronics company out of China, showed off a human-powered washing machine concept at IFA 2010. It's
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Pedal-Powered Submarine Uses Strida Bike Parts
Would you trust your life with a pedal-powered submarine? I'd have to say, I'm not so sure I would. Not that the Scubster might fail, but that my legs would before I could resurface. Minh-Lôc Truong and Stéphane Rousson, a team of
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Charge Your Gadgets With Your Boots? Orange Unveils Power-Generating Wellies
Orange and GotWind is a partnership known for coming up with some interesting new ways of generating power for off-grid charging. They've created everything from solar- and wind-powered tents to foot pumps . But now they want to attach
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Powering Medical Devices with Your Organs
Generating power via the motion of our bodies has captivated researchers for some time
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Treadmill Bike Gets You Running On Two Wheels (Video)
We love random human-powered vehicles. The weirder the better, at least most of the time, because it stirs up creativity and hopefully gets people out and about without the use of fossil fuels or coal powered electricity. Plus exercise is always a good
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Nokia Moving Into Kinetically Charged Cell Phones, Files New Patent
So far, kinetic charging for cell phones has been confined to the realm of external chargers
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French Using Sewage to Heat Their Swimming Pools
When water from the shower, dishwasher, or washing-machine is drained into the sewer-pipes, it's not just a waste of water, but a waste of the energy used to heat that water. In fact, the water in city pipes averages a temperature of
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LED Flashlight Combines Solar and Pull Power So You're Never In The Dark
Solar powered flashlights are great, but you have to wait for a charge. Pull-cord flashlights are great but you have to work for a charge. But what about one that combines both so if you're short on light or short on energy,
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New Rubber Film Could Harvest Energy from Breathing, Walking to Power Gadgets
Princeton University engineers have come up with a rubber film that harvests kinetic energy. But it's not just another piezoelectric film. The team has been able to combine silicone and naonoribbons
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Would You Pay $800 For a Bike Power Generator?
That's what Pedal-A-Watt wants you to pay in order to generate 250 watts of pedaled energy. But unless you regularly hook up your bike to a stationary stand in order to get some exercise, this is not exactly an eco-friendly
