New Twist on Power Walking

An anonymous reader writes "Carrying a newly designed backpack loaded with between 44 and 84 pounds of gear, users generate enough electricity to simultaneously power an MP3 player, a PDA, night vision goggles, a handheld GPS, a CMOS image decoder, a GSM terminal in talk mode, and Bluetooth."

Comments

Picture and Details

[enoraM]

Here's a picture http://www.heise.de/bilder/63699/0/1 . The aparatus just takes a small part of the weight. However, you have to put something in your backpack, whatever it is, to generate power.

Re:That would make you

[isorox]

Except they were wearing plain clothes, did not shout "police, stop!", he didn't run until after he'd picked up a newspaper, walked through the ticket bararier, and saw a train about to leave, same as any other london commuter

Re:Ob Snow Crash reference

[jellomizer]

I think you missed the point. After RTFA the gear between 40lbs-80lbs is your normal gear that you will take in a backpack. Clothing, Tent, Sleeping Bag, Towel, Toiletries, Oder Free Soap, Pocket Knife, First Aid Kit, Cooking pans, Fire starter kit, Water, food. All this combined could make the pack easily 50-80 lbs. the article never gave the weight to the pack when it was empty but they did state it did help you carry yourself better thus making the load more efficient.