Mar 10 2009Hamster Jackets Harness Piezoelectricity
Finally. I say it's about damn time we fit our hamsters with little jackets that harness all the energy they're wasting when running incessantly in their little wheels. Also, we're harnessing the power of the wheel too, right?
To harness hamster power, the scientists sewed electricity-generating threads one-fiftieth the width of a human hair into a yellow jacket worn by the hamsters as they ran. A human-sized jacket, capable of powering an iPod, could be ready in as little as three years.
"This can totally be scaled up," said Zhong Lin 'ZL' Wang, who co-authored a paper describing the research in this month's issue of Nano Letters. "This is just the first step. The idea is that we would harvest energy from any body movement, from walking, breathing, from any kind of vibration."
Well shit, let's scale it up to dinosaurs then. I could design a hell of a piezo-electric jacket for a T-Rex. And, while I'm at it, maybe some intimates. I'm thinking something lacy with a few silk accents. Did somebody just say crotchless? I like the way you think!
Hamster jackets harness wheel-running power [msnbc]
Thanks to I Won't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking My Juice on the Geekologie, who can run in his wheel for hours.
Reader Comments
1. m0nkey - March 10, 2009 2:33 PM
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2. koOPa - March 10, 2009 2:35 PM
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3. saduyajev jerbowitz - March 10, 2009 2:37 PM
Has anyone ever came up with a device that generates electricity that is converted from the torque-power from your hand while jerking off?
Because that would be very lovely. Imagine the money you're gonna save for the less energy consumption you're generating.
4. book - March 10, 2009 2:42 PM
i bet we could make a pleizoelectric watch/generator. heh, we could power the world with nerds and internet porn!
5. chris "sanchez" - March 10, 2009 2:47 PM
'bout time, thats awsome, and i want one, NOW,
6. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - March 10, 2009 2:49 PM
Is this new? I thought this was how Vespas were powered?
7. naas - March 10, 2009 2:49 PM
@3 -> http://www.geekologie.com/2009/02/its_about_time_how_to_convert.php#comment
8. naas - March 10, 2009 2:50 PM
..forgot to mention, it may need some modification to suit your needs
9. Pew³ - March 10, 2009 3:01 PM
...If only they could figure out a way to harness electricity from the sun....
Imagine the possibilities!
10. DreamFolder - March 10, 2009 3:02 PM
It's from China. They can harvest "any kind of body movement." Like, say prisoners being forced to run around the prison yard until they die to generate "clean" electricity. Just call me Copper-top.
11. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - March 10, 2009 3:04 PM
#9
Quiet, hippie. People might start getting a clue.
12. saduyajev jerbowitz - March 10, 2009 3:05 PM
@8,7
I'd rather have me a "vagina-mouse" to click with than having to PLAY with my shkunk all day! You're an idiot too. "suit my needs"? What the f*ck do I need, really? My cock can probably fit perfectly well in that deathtrap. F you naas! That was not funny.
13. catch22 - March 10, 2009 3:30 PM
so when we were making fun of my friends aries k saying it had a hampster on a wheel for an engine.. it could have been true?
14. naas - March 10, 2009 3:35 PM
@12 whateverthefukthatnameis - it was a reference not a joke you ignorant little feltchmonkey. Don't get all cocky with me because you need machines to help you with your bizarre fecosexisfaction cap'n faggo
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16. naas - March 10, 2009 3:47 PM
^ ^
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18. Uncle Eccoli - March 10, 2009 4:32 PM
I'm with DreamFolder - it sounds like the Matrix to me.
(F U C K)
19. BOOSH! - March 10, 2009 4:42 PM
Little Hamsters Big Adventures!
20. feckless - March 10, 2009 6:05 PM
This is clearly a job for the Homeless.
21. formerly SPELLINGNAZI© - March 10, 2009 8:22 PM
Now if they can only master the technology to make their wheels stop squeaking in the middle of the night...
22. Daisy - March 10, 2009 9:21 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max tried to buy booze for a part with a fake ID and accidentally got involved in a robbery when the robber punched him. When the police came they brought him around on their later calls.
23. eggs - March 11, 2009 1:00 AM
@21 Oil.
24. Mulletbeastmaster - March 11, 2009 1:37 AM
I still think we should hook generators up to exercise bikes and put them in all the prisons around the country! Think about this.....The prisoners would only be allowed to watch TV if they produced power for us. It would be CLEAN power too! It would also put them to work, and make them less lazy.
25. formerly SPELLINGNAZI© - March 11, 2009 2:17 AM
@23: Tried that, it makes them sick, the petroleum based kind anyway...and with the cooking kind, they just spend all night trying to chew the wheel off cause they think it's food, then it ends up squeaking AND rattling...
26. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - March 11, 2009 7:18 AM
@25
Get your pet hamsters a pet of their own. Like a snake or cat. There will be no more squeeking because they'll be to busy playing.
27. eggs - March 11, 2009 10:31 AM
@25 Put their cage away from your bed. Or remove the wheel and get a hamster ball. Actually, I enjoyed the noises they made. Had insomnia and went to see the little furball go about. There's a sense of peace watching this animal, not entirely sentient, or clever, but energetic and playful go about his/her life.
28. eggs - March 11, 2009 11:18 AM
But then it got stuck up my ass one day when my mate came over to show me a new trick. I really miss that furball.
29. feckless - March 11, 2009 1:57 PM
@15 Tourette's much?
30. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - March 11, 2009 2:24 PM
@29
shit
piss
fück
cünt
cöcksucker
motherfücker
and tìts
31. formerly SPELLINGNAZI© - March 11, 2009 5:40 PM
Awesome idea ALF! I'll try that one! Thanks!!!
32. formerly SPELLINGNAZI© - March 11, 2009 9:54 PM
Sonofabitch, it worked! I got a Rat Snake, because it'd be ok, cause it's a hamster, not a rat...no more squeaky!
33. formerly SPELLINGNAZI© - March 12, 2009 12:36 AM
Well crap, at first it was in the corner curled up shaking from excitement of its new cage mate, but it must not have liked sharing its space cause it looks like it escaped. Strange though, the door is still closed, but the snake looks content...
34. laptop battery sell - January 4, 2010 3:48 AM
It's a good idea .Thank you.