The chin strap that harvests energy received some serious media coverage earlier this month.
The BBC article had a great close-up of a potential energy source: the traditional chewing gum.
Best thing about the article, grumbled our TheEditor.
It may power a hearing aid in the future!
Oh, I can dig that. If you want to listen, you start chewing, great.
It's for the battery!
I know that.
We don't know if chewing a burger or a gum is going to be the next big thing in tech, but we prefer the reporting Vice Motherboard did on this one: Sure, a Chin Strap That Harvests Energy.
Let's face it: any movement can harvest energy. All motion is energy. Putting a few straps on your hands can turn typing lines like the one you are reading now into a source of energy.
Walking can be exploited, as floor panels prove. Imagine taking a long walk, like in an airport with a mile long concourse, used as an energy source. The annoying trek from gate 1 to gate 245 finally has some purpose.
Closer to home, there is a multitude of free energy sources, too. You could harvest power in your sleep by fitting a mattress with a collector. Every time you roll over in your sleep, you get a few extra joules of juice.
More vigorous activities in the bedroom would generate even more energy.
Not tonight, baby.
The alarm clock battery is low, we need to generate more power.
Generating power might even be a way to redeem the modern social outcasts smokers.
Fit a strap thing to the elbow, and every time the lit stick of death moves toward the mouth, voila, energy!
If grandpa does not move as much as he used?
All we are going to say about that: miniature methane fuel cells.
[Update 9/28] Added the link http://www.physics4kids.com/files/motion_energy.html
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