New Twist on Power Walking 253
An anonymous reader writes "Carrying a newly designed backpack loaded with between 44 and 84 pounds of gear, users generate enough electricity to simultaneously power an MP3 player, a PDA, night vision goggles, a handheld GPS, a CMOS image decoder, a GSM terminal in talk mode, and Bluetooth."
There's another one on the market (Score:1, Informative)
See this link [oneilleurope.com] for more info.
and how about kinetic energy (Score:1, Informative)
http://www.designawards.com.au/ADA/04-05/student/
and another one made by seike for its clocks:
http://www.ofrei.com/page867.html [ofrei.com]
Anybody know something likeness?
Re:Gee (Score:3, Informative)
Picture and Details (Score:5, Informative)
Re:That would make you (Score:5, Informative)
Re:That would make you (Score:3, Informative)
Except they were wearing plain clothes, did not shout "police, stop!", he didn't run until after he'd picked up a newspaper, walked through the ticket bararier, and saw a train about to leave, same as any other london commuter
That's not what eyewitnesses said the day of the shooting immediately after it happened. [cnn.com] But you're absolutely right -- I have no doubt that what the British press has reported on the matter is completely unbiased, especially after the Daily Mirror last year made up the story about British soldiers pissing on Iraqi prisoners [mirror.co.uk] and either fabricated (probably) or used obviously fake photographic evidence.
Re:Ob Snow Crash reference (Score:5, Informative)
Re:why is this new? why a backpack? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:That would make you (Score:2, Informative)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,165960,00.htm
I don't know if the final report came out yet, so I'm not sure this is the official version. Google around and you will find more.
If you are walking (Score:2, Informative)
Re:84 pounds to power devices? (Score:3, Informative)
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7970 [newscientist.com] has another viewpoint, and even a clear picture.
Re:If you are walking (Score:2, Informative)
Re:About as practical as a backpack full of bricks (Score:3, Informative)