kinetic energy

Pavegen, which harvests energy and data from footsteps, secures crowd and Hinduja Group funding

Pavegen, a UK startup which harvests energy from people’s footsteps and also tracks that data, has raised £2.6m on its crowdfunding push having doubled its initial £950k target. The campaign secur

Behold! Watch As The Power Of The Wind Instantly Energizes This 3D-Printed Thingamabob

Do you believe in perpetual motion? The Flat Earth Theory? The sauroids who run our governments? Have I got something for you. The Wind Energy Stored In Gravity project allows you to store wind energy

Unwinding The Swatch Group Smartwatch Announcement

The Swatch Group dropped a bombshell – in its staid way – announcing plans to release a smartwatch in the next three months, potentially to coincide with the April launch of the Apple Watc

Infinity Cell Lets You Charge Your iPhone Simply By Shaking It

The Infinity Cell is a kinetic charger for the iPhone that uses your body's movement to generate electricity. The current prototype for the Infinity Cell is a crude 3D printed rectangle, roughly the s

Not yet real cellphone powered by kinetic energy

[photopress:kcp.jpg,full,center] Biggs has been talking phones all week, but this phone, the Atlas Kinetic Cell Phone, isn’t real. It’s only a render, a mock-up, and looks like something t

Kinetic Mobile Phones On The Way

Don’t you just hate it when you’re at the club shakin’ your ass off all night long and when it comes time to call for a ride your mobile phone is dead? Yeah, I really hate that. A few ravers do,