Wearable power – Dancepants
Wearable, limitless power for ‘on the go’ personal deceives is the dream of many.
Batteries usually run out at just the wrong moment, in the middle of a phone call, while tweeting or when the motivational music is most needed.
A lot of research and experimentation is done to realized this dream but sometimes the simplest ideas can make a big difference like the Dancepants Kinetic Music Player created by Lithuanian designers Inesa Malafej and Arunas Sukarevicius.
A brilliant simple and feasible concept of using kinetic energy to generate unlimited power for an MP3 player.
The kinetic module is attached at the pants leg with a connection running along the leg up to a pocket where the MP3 player is connected.
The kinetic module can be very similar what to what is used in kinetic watches. They have a weight running around and around a center point which winds up a spring to drive the gearbox of a watch. A bit of modification and the kinetic energy is concerted into electrical power.
The power requirements for MP3 player like the iPod Shuffle without a screen is very low, making it suitable for a kinetic power supply like the proposed concept to operate.
As long as one is on the move like running or riding a bicycle, the energy flows and best of all, it is renewable and free.
[source: DesignBoom]
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[...] De Dancepants Kinetic Music player is een ontwerp van Inesa Malafej en Arunas Sukarevicius uit Litouwen. Het idee achter deze MP3 speler is eigenlijk vrij simpel en toch briljant. De speler gebruikt namelijk kenetische energie, die je opwekt met hardlopen of dansen, om je favorieten nummers af te spelen. Hierdoor moet je je volgens de ontwerpers bewuster gaan voelen van de energie die je opwekt met dagelijkse handelingen. De kinetische module zit verborgen op je enkel, welke via je been verbonden is met de speler die op je heup geplaatst is. Helaas is de Dancepants Kinetic Music Player op dit moment nog niet in productie. Bron [...]