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Move Your Body, Power Your Cell Phone

March 2nd, 2010 by gonzalhc · No Comments · Biology, Physics

Did you know that the laziest  couch potatoes can  make  even more power that is bout 70 watts worth. Did you know that all the work that this lazy couch potato can be put to use? It can charge a phone that’s what this work of a lazy potato can do. it is unbelievable even if the couch potato just gets up to walk across the room. That’s work and it can charge a phone. Michael C. McAlpine of Princeton and colleagues  have made an approach to make body movements into electricity, by printing a thing called piezoelectric crystals  on flexible rubber.  Would you like to know more? Click here.

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