September 22nd, 2007 by ketyung
Every step, action, movement that we take in our daily life produces kinetic energy that is simply wasted into the air. It’s simply cool if we could convert all the wasted energies into some useful form to power our gadgets. That is how the new battery concept, called Kineticel, is being introduced to us by Yael Miller.
Kineticel is the kind of special battery that can capture energy produced by moving things and store in it to be used later for powering your gadgets. Although this is still currently a concept, but DARPA is already making use of it to power some low-power consumption devices such as a wearable sensor
Kineticel is recommended to be attached to daily operations or tasks that produce high amount of energy. Such as a person is doing weight-lifting then having Kineticel attached to it would produce fair amount of electricity that could be used to power higher-power consumption device. The idea of recycling energy is simply great as we’ve been wasting too much of it for few thousand years. Kineticel was one of the contestants of Metropolis magazine’s 2007 Next Generation competition, which was all about integrating piezoelectric energy generation into everyday life.
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October 29th, 2007 at 5:14 am
[...] Shirt or gadgets that can convert other energies into electricity perhaps are not something new to us. Such as the Kineticel is the kind of battery that captures kinetic energy produced by moving things and stored for later use. And also, the Solar Bikini converts sunlight into electricity to power your iPod. Here comes another special shirt or vest that is being developed by Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO that can convert kinetic energy produced by wearers while they’re moving around into electricity to power up your gadgets. [...]