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Still Suits and Body-powered Devices

Posted by michael on from the stay-out-of-the-rain dept.

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."

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  1. |energy harvesting" and urine(!) by Compact+Dick · · Score: 4, Funny
    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...
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    1. Re:|energy harvesting" and urine(!) by deglr6328 · · Score: 3, Funny

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

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  2. Re:Hmmm. by deglr6328 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh, yes.

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  3. I can see it now ... by (void*) · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  4. I'm so excited! by BillyGoatThree · · Score: 5, Funny

    "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!

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