This all seems really familiar, I seem to remember a year or so ago. There was a small turbine, gas powered I think that was supposed to be an ideal power source. like carrying around a small jet engine for a wearable power source. not a bad idea in theory, but the heat/sound/open-flame considerations ruled it out for a fair amount of applications. I had a small model plane engine mounted on a little car when I was young and loud did not even begin to describe the amount of noise that thing produced once it was running. It was loud, ran hot and was not very good with fuel. It did kick the hell out of all my friends RC cars though, just so long as there were no turns. It was one of the simplest engines I have ever seen. If you add an active cancellation system it would require a power source and speakers to output sound of a rather high volume to produce destructive interference and cancel the sound. I would think if a similar amount of (creative) energy were put into some sort of device that generated power through movement (walking). We would have a viable alternative. Sort of a large selfwinding wearable. Anyone have an old pedometer they could sacrifice to the cause? What about using body heat to generate power? Not to rip off the Matrix.... well I am off on a rant later thom -- Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org
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