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Now This Is Mobile Technology! part 21

Posted by: Peter Murphy on Aug 26 2008 - 23 views

Funny for me to think that this series of posts started off with a very similair idea, clothing that turned the kinetic energy of your personal movement into power that could be transferred to a device. The comparison I used was an automatic watch. A mechanical device that is self powered through the movement of the wearer, and the device I’m featuring today, is conceptually the same. You carry it around, and it charges itself via your movement. Now I know everyone’s thinking I’m having some seventies hippy flashback, and going all green. In essence, it’s like wearing a pedometer, it measures your steps with the equivalent of an accelerometer, why not use the same tech to create power. Well it seems someone is finally catching on to these combined technologies…

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