As I was searching for an article about a cool new invention, I came across this bad boy.You are probably asking yourself.. what the help is that weird stick looking thing with a frog on it? Well it is actually called nPower® PEG and what it does is harvest kinetic energy. Why I found this so interesting is because of one of the projects we did for my Technical Entrepreneurship class. It dealt with making something that normally ran on the grid, work without connection to the grid. My group threw around the idea of using kinetic energy to create power but didn't get anywhere with it. They advertise it by saying "have power everywhere you go".
I have two main concerns about this patented technology.
One: how accessible is it going to be to the general public? Are the prices for these things going to be threw the roof?
Two: Even if there is a way to make this affordable, is it really going to produce that much power? On the website it claims 10 minutes of walking produces a measly 1 minute of talk time on an iPhone 3G. How much walking does someone really do in a day? I would like to guess that they use their phone a lot more than do whatever this little thing needs to produce energy. The only place I see this actually working would be during long hiking/running/biking trips when connection to an outlet is limited.
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Let me know your thoughts on this new product.
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