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The Ubiquitous LED Becomes More Ubiquitous

Posted by timothy on from the more-meats-in-cones dept.

LiberalApplication writes "Piezoelectric generators have been mentioned here before, regarding the military's plan to integrate them into the heels of boots for the purposes of harvesting electricity from the cumulative stompage of a soldier, but now someone has come up with the idea to combine them with LEDs and cast the entire assembly into a little block of resin. Well, a stick, really. If you were getting tired of seeing little blinky lights everywhere, you ain't seen nothing yet."

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  1. targets by TheSHAD0W · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh great, let's make our troopers into marching Xmas trees, why don't we? "Don't fire until you see the lights of their feet!"

  2. Blinking LEDs on Combat boots? by weeboo0104 · · Score: 4, Funny

    the military's plan to integrate them into the heels of boots

    I wonder if they will resemble these.

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  3. Re:Bicycles... by benploni · · Score: 4, Funny
    No driver could miss me then.


    Actually, I thought you'd rather want him to miss you :-)
  4. [ot] tritium?!? by Paul+d'Aoust · · Score: 3, Funny

    I know this is slightly off-topic, but -- are you sure it's safe to have that amount of tritium dangling from your keys? Those things look pretty bloody bright... just don't stick your keychain in your pocket if you wanna have kids in the future ^_^

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  5. Re:Concerts... by Sir+Holo · · Score: 2, Funny

    Am I the only one who thinks this would be a neat thing to embed in a clear drumstick and then use at concert?

    Public announcement! You now have 1 year if you want US patent protection, and you are out of luck if you wanted international.

  6. Re:Lots of uses for Piezoelectric by Alsee · · Score: 2, Funny

    Have you ever thought about how much sound energy needs to be traveling through a piezo crystal to generate, say, 1W?

    Ummm, let me guess....

    One watt of sound?

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  7. Re:Embedded into sidewalks by BigDumbSpaceApe · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah that would be great, especially if you danced around and sang 'Billie Jean' =\

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  8. Re:Lots of uses for Piezoelectric by Dachannien · · Score: 2, Funny

    All I know is that the people who drive past my apartment with their cars about ready to rattle apart from all the extreme bass are dissipating enough power to run a small city.