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These Boots Were Made for Walkin’ (and Generatin’ Power)

These Boots Were Made for Walkin’ (and Generatin’ Power)

Posted on October 28, 2008 by John Platt .

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Motion is energy. Capturing that energy is easy if you’re talking about huge turbines. But what about tiny motions, like a footstep?
A number of new projects aim to use the energy of human activity and translate it into ways to power the portable devices we so love. The photo above is an obviously early prototype [...]