Still Suits and Body-powered Devices

Helmholtz writes: "Soon body powered devices may be a reality thanks to work being done at the Center for Space Power and Advanced Electronics, a NASA commercial center in Alabama. The article talks mostly about military and space applications, but I think it'd be really slick to make still suits, not to mention portable audio players, PDA, and even laptops that are powered by energy that we are generating anyway."

Comments

But I don't generate any energy!!

[Newt-dog]

but I think it'd be really slick to make still suits, not to mention portable audio players, PDA, and even laptops that are powered by energy that we are generating anyway.

Trust me, if my computer (or PDA for that fact) were to run off the energy I make sitting at my freak'in desk, we all would be in a world of hurt.
The only excersize I get is running to the bathroom several times after that Super BigGulp of Pepsi!
The only other thing that gets my fingers moving fast, is seeing a new article appear on SlashDot without any postings yet! :-)

Newt-dog

We could take it too far

[Snafoo]

What if, like, all these robots and shit found out about the energy we make, and, you know, like, totally put us in these vats and stuff, and sucked all the energy out, while our minds were placed in a prison that looked exactly like reality? That'd really suck, man.

|energy harvesting" and urine(!)

[Compact Dick]

Someone needs a new PR exec :-) But from the site [watch out for the pop-unders]:

Urine-based fuel cell: Yes, you can turn pee into power...

...one attractive feature of this fuel cell concept is the production of water as a by-product of the system.

Hmmm. Somehow I won't be beta-testing the reverse-engineered water...

Re:|energy harvesting" and urine(!)

[deglr6328]

But you already are. It's called the hydrologic cycle. Sure there are a few bugs to work out, but its extremely stable!

It absolutely has to be said...

[fireboy1919]

MUUAADIIIBB!

And your body crumbles to ashes...

Re:It absolutely has to be said...

[Anonymous Coward]

"It is by caffeine alone that I set my mind in motion.
It is by the beans of Java that the thoughts acquire speed,
the hands acquire shakes, the shakes become a warning.
It is by caffeine alone that I set my mind in motion."

Re:Hmmm.

[deglr6328]

Oh, yes.

I can see it now ...

[(void*)]

Look at that hot chick over there ... overloaded and burnt out my Visor. Damn!

Herbert was wrong

[imrdkl]

Stick with light cotton and layers in the desert. Black rubber, while quite stylish, is simply not workable.

I'm so excited!

[BillyGoatThree]

"I think it'd be really slick to make still suits..."

That's right! Forget about flying cars, I wish for the day when I can drink tepid water harvested from my own sweat and urine!

Re:Not for me.

[JMMurphy]

In most instances, I don't think this would be true. Energy would be generated through by-products of human action (heat, sweat, movement). I don't think that you would necessarily have to work any harder to generate electricity. They aren't *quite* parasites, but more like a, err, remora, existing off of the waste of something else.

On the other hand, this could be an incentive to work. Must... Stay... At... 12 kmh... or... music.... stops!

IceHouse