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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.