Aug 17 2007Body Heat Electricity
Those clever German researchers are at it again, this time over at the Fraunhofer Institute. They have developed "entire electronic systems" that can run off of body heat turned electricity. The picture above shows a wireless transmitter being powered by the heat given off by a person's hand via a thermoelectric generator. Of course the wireless transmitter only needs 200 millivolts to operate. So when they say "entire electronic systems" can run off body heat, I think what they meant was pretty much nothing. Wake me up when I can power a portable videogame system by holding it. Ka-ching! Don't steal that idea.
Body Heat Electricity [engadget]
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Reader Comments
1. BNew - August 17, 2007 12:22 PM
THE MATRIX IS REAL!
2. pork musket - August 17, 2007 12:30 PM
when I bang chicks it generates 1.21 gigawatts.
3. xeen - August 17, 2007 1:33 PM
Well, then ask Frauenhofer to develop a energy generating Fleshlight. Some viagra and enough free porn will solve mankind's energy problems on an instant!
4. evilive - August 17, 2007 9:47 PM
those wacky germans...first they mass-produced soap from death camps and now they learn how to generate power from live victims er test subjects...
5. proteon - August 18, 2007 2:11 PM
Hmm, let me see: if I put my hand on this pad and hold it there for a while I can power up a machine that tells me how much electricity I can generate.
Oddly if I smack myself in the head with a hammer for a while, I start to see stars and it's these stars I use to gauge how much damage my face has taken.
SEriously why not an ass pad so the collective billions of fat asses sitting in front of their computers could power like a few extra planets or something.
6. meppers - August 18, 2007 3:11 PM
im gonna steal that idea :D
7. guate6 - August 18, 2007 10:56 PM
#5, I agree. While the idea of taking the body's BTU's to power things (as in the Matrix) is not a new one, I think the idea to take energy from people walking is far more practical, as it's a lot more energy than one's immediate body heat. People should explore solar energy more, it's all like *there* and it's like *free* and what not.