Create Your Own Energy: But how?

A team of American and Canadian scientists have got together and produced a device which will create its own energy. It look pretty similar to a knee brace and after one minute of walking can generate enough energy to power a mobile phone for 30 minutes.

“All of the new developments in prosthetics require large power budgets. You need power to run your neural interface; you need it to run your powered joint, and so on. Getting that power is going to be really important”. Said Dr Douglas Weber of the University of Pittsburgh, told BBC News:

Max Donelan of Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, Canada, also said “Walking is a lot like stop-and-go driving. Within each stride muscles are continuously accelerating and decelerating the body”.

This could be a great device with a lot of uses for people who need aided walking and also it could be extended to those within the forces.

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