Bodyheat – A Dance Floor That Converts Dancer’s Body Heat Into Energy
An arts venue in Glasgow, Scotland features an innovative dance floor that creates renewable energy from the body heat of dancers. SWG3 hosts some of Glasgow’s largest dance parties, with thousands of people getting together to dance the night away throughout the year. Starting this month, the dancers won’t just be burning energy by busting […]
This Device Lets You Charge Your Phone on the Go Using Your Body’s Own Energy
HandEnergy is an ingenious apple-sized device that charges your phone anytime, anywhere. But what really makes this thing special is the fact that it uses your own personal energy to do it. In a time where power-banks and solar-power devices have become mainstream, a device that lets you charge gadgets on the go doesn’t sound […]
Christmas Tree Lights Powered by a Bunch of Electric Eels
People are definitely becoming more and more concerned about the environment, also more inventive. Looking for ways to save up energy, the staff of the Helsinki Sea Life Center aquarium in Finland, discovered they had a totally free energy source living right in their fish tanks – electric eels. “Our electrician built a device that […]
Teenager Invents Cheap Solar Panel Using Human Hair
Milan Karki, an 18-year-old from Nepal, may have solved the world’s increasing energy problems, by inventing a solar panel that uses human hair instead of expensive wiring. The young Nepalese, together with 4 classmates, has been trying to come up with a way of producing cheap, renewable energy for his home village ever since he […]