Saturday, March 2, 2013 - 11:51am
Soccket soccer ball creates power source from play.
kinetic energy stories
Friday, February 5, 2010 - 1:02pm
Ah, children: those lovable balls of built-up energy. If only there was a way to harness that force? That's exactly what designers Aaron Tsui, Irina Kozlovskaya, Jasen Mehta and Sergio Silva had in mind when they came up with "Rocco,...
Friday, May 15, 2009 - 6:58am
Look, ma — no power cord! So you've seen gadgets before that can be powered by working a hand crank, but designer Karin Johansson of Sweden's Konstfack University has a lamp that's charged when you give it a spin. It...
Tuesday, August 19, 2008 - 2:15pm
Sick of recharging your phone every day? Sick of the battery slowly losing power all day long? It comes with the territory with batteries, unfortunately. That may not always be the case, however. Imagine if your phone charged itself up...
Tuesday, June 24, 2008 - 11:28am
This may come as a shock, but apparently breasts tend to bounce around while the person they're attached to is exercising. All juvenile kidding aside, could it be possible to harness this movement to store energy, turning those bouncing bosoms...
Tuesday, June 24, 2008 - 6:58am
Your car breaks down on a remote road, and your cellphone battery dies. What to do? Flare guns aside, you could strap on the Orange Dance Charge and flail around like a gimp while it uses your body movement...
