Ah, this is a nice bit of information that i came across. The innovation actually helps you burn calories instead of burning electricity to charge laptops!
A group of students have come up with a way to recharge your laptop without plugging it in. Rather than consuming electricity, you will be burning a lot calories of your body. The students built an exercise bicycle that uses the power of pedalling to charge a laptop computer. thus letting you to exercise while you are working!
Students Piotr Fidkowski, Sebastian Figari, Sara John, Kendra Johnson, Julia Kiberd, Tina Lai and Devon McCorkle of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) teamed up with Laxmi Rao of MIT`s Information Services and Technology. The project was to connect a laptop with an exercise bicycle.
A conventional 12-volt battery is used. It is charged through belts and gears present in the cycle, which actually transfers the motion of the wheel into the battery. A charge is also present, which regulates the electricity passing to the battery and thus prevents the battery from over-charging. Then the charge of the battery is supplied to the laptop, that is placed on a tray, in place of the handlebars.
The seat of the bicycle is adjustable according to one`s need and even the tray of the laptop is movable!
This is actually a smart way to use the unwanted calories present in our body and do something useful with it instead of just releasing it wastefully. This technology is going to be very useful when people go to some place where there is no availability of electricity.
Source: Times of India newpaper
