<![CDATA[Knee Brace Charges Your Cellphone - Gizmodo Comments]]> <![CDATA[Knee Brace Charges Your Cellphone - Gizmodo Comments]]> <![CDATA[Knee Brace Charges Your Cellphone]]> hey... howabout a combo cigarette holder/lighter with an embeded whizzer propellor that charges the unit with evey puff, saving tons of propane every year!
Additionally with non-tobacco sources you could reverse it for a puff-powered cannon.


ANoel

]]> <![CDATA[Knee Brace Charges Your Cellphone]]> Combo this with a solar charger and we're set.

Pi-face

]]> <![CDATA[Knee Brace Charges Your Cellphone]]> @JacquesAss: DARPA has been doing similar stuff, but they've done more work with energy generated from heels in a footstep (too much gets wasted), and backpack bouncing up and down (unit was too heavy). This gadget appears to be the Baby Bear of the human kinetic energy harvesting world.

Benny Goldman

]]> <![CDATA[Knee Brace Charges Your Cellphone]]> Wasn't there a post a while back about the DARPA funding something along these lines? If I remember correctly, the soldiers carry >10 lbs. of batteries on each mission (GPS, night vision, radio, etc.). If soldiers could keep everything charged via "personal area network" fueled by marching?

Whatever resistance this brace induces would easily be made up by weight-savings.

JacquesAss

]]> <![CDATA[Knee Brace Charges Your Cellphone]]> Just wonder how long before "other" electric devices will be powered by this? Perhaps by energy absorbing springs in high heals as well?

Bachblast

]]> <![CDATA[Knee Brace Charges Your Cellphone]]> Hey, that would fit nicely right below my Stadium Pal.

stjnky

]]> <![CDATA[Knee Brace Charges Your Cellphone]]> Restless Leg Syndrome + These Things = Green Energy!

jamstigator

]]> <![CDATA[Knee Brace Charges Your Cellphone]]> He is probably left handed if you look his right leg is the one producing the most power and in most humans your strongest leg is opposite to your dominate hand (please correct me if i am wrong)

trc202

]]> <![CDATA[Knee Brace Charges Your Cellphone]]> However, if we apply the back-EMF into the generator core...

heh. j/k

ripfire

]]> <![CDATA[Knee Brace Charges Your Cellphone]]> Hook up anorexics to this and we'd have unlimited electricity

phungy

]]> <![CDATA[Knee Brace Charges Your Cellphone]]> "do they plan on making it quieter? because i think the noise could cause some problems for the soldiers..."

The answer is of course it will be quieter. Right now the device is open and made of steel and aluminum. You are right the soldiers will not like the noise very much. It will have the ability to be dis-engaged when needed.

The wires are running to a computer where the control currently reside to engage and dis-engage the generator. The control systems will be on-board.

Find out more about this at www.bionic-power.com

ygarcha

]]> <![CDATA[Knee Brace Charges Your Cellphone]]> Pocket protector for the 2010s
Now I'll be able to see who'll get my Star Trek references just by their knees.

Shuft

]]> <![CDATA[Knee Brace Charges Your Cellphone]]> I love how they have wires coming out of his back and he even has stuff hooked up to his head. Thus spawned the Matrix.

stallionz

]]> <![CDATA[Knee Brace Charges Your Cellphone]]> this is the bee's knees, yo!

rimplestultskin

]]> <![CDATA[Knee Brace Charges Your Cellphone]]> I want one for my wrist to power my laptop when I'm, um, yeah... Just let us know when the wrist model is out!

turbofc3s

]]> <![CDATA[Knee Brace Charges Your Cellphone]]> Bob: Hey Enrique what's that strapped to your leg?

Enrique: Well Bob, that's my biomechanical energy harvester

Bob: You don't say...

mariogalaxyman

]]> <![CDATA[Knee Brace Charges Your Cellphone]]> What's with the jab at U of M? We all know Michigan State is the whipping boy...

impliedsurprise

]]> <![CDATA[Knee Brace Charges Your Cellphone]]> @daversW: You're hearing the treadmill.

I'm down for this gadget and would buy one right away. This would be great way to supplement the solar stuff I use now for camping, plus I like the small size. I'd have it charge a battery, which could be used for whatever device. Hell, even when I travel, I could use this in the urban landscape to keep the battery fresh in some GPS/Phone devices.

vagrant

]]> <![CDATA[Knee Brace Charges Your Cellphone]]> do they plan on making it quieter? because i think the noise could cause some probmes for the soldiers...

daversW

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