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A New Device Harvests Energy From Your Body as You Walk and Swing Your Arms

June 20, 2016

“The idea is that dur­ing walk­ing, we are giv­ing off mechan­i­cal ener­gy which can be cap­tured,” Jan Andry­sek, a pro­fes­sor at the Insti­tute of Bio­ma­te­ri­als and Bio­med­ical Engi­neer­ing at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to, told me. Although he was not involved in this new paper, he led the devel­op­ment of a pros­thet­ic leg that cap­tures ener­gy from knee move­ments. Read more.