December 15, 2014
Washing Machine Hydroelectric Generator: Power Cycle
Some of you may know YouTuber Buddhanz as the guy who owns an angry ram named Angry Ram. If his pet goat is off the rails, Buddhanz is off the grid.…
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February 1, 2014
Power Generating Soccket Soccer Ball Now Available
Last year we talked a bit about the Soccket soccer ball, or football depending on where you are from, when it turned up on Kickstarter. At the time a pledge of $89 would get you one.…
October 10, 2013
Disney Research Generates Electricity Inside Sheets of Paper
When you think of Disney, most typically think of animated movies and theme parks, but Disney also has a research arm that looks into all sorts of future technology.…
May 31, 2013
DIY Bicycle-Based Generator: All Stationary Bikes Should Be Like This
Instructables member KlockworkKevin made a generator attachment for his bicycle. Even though he mostly used scrap parts for the generator, he was able to avoid making the whole thing an eyesore by hiding it in plain sight.…
May 7, 2013
Dance Floor That Generates Electricity: Party Power
A Dutch company called Energy Floors has invented a product that turns club patrons into portable generators. The company’s Sustainable Dance Floors are tiles that generate electricity when they’re stepped on.…
February 28, 2013
Soccket Ball Generates Electricity When You Play With It: Child Playbor
This unique ball turns the beautiful game into the energy-generating game. Made by a small company called Uncharted Play, the Soccket is a football that converts mechanical energy to electrical energy.…
January 27, 2013
Goal Zero Yeti 150 Solar Generator Kit: Power for World War Z
When you’re out in the woods, there’s no assurance when you’ll be able to juice up your gadgets, unless you go back to your car. That being said, it’s always good to have some power alternatives.…
November 17, 2012
iRock Rocking Chair Charges Your iPad While You Rock
It looks like modded rocking chairs are getting more popular this year. First, it was Damien Ludi and Colin Peillex’s Rocking-Knit chair that knitted while you rocked.…
May 16, 2012
Virus Used to Generate Electricity
The gadgets of the future may come with viruses, but not the ones that Norton should be worried about. First of all, they’re actual viruses, not the software kind.…
April 7, 2012
PowerPot Thermoelectric Generator Charges your Gadgets Using Fire
There are a number of backup emergency power generators on the market that allow you to charge your iPhone or other smartphones without a traditional power source.…
February 6, 2012
K-TOR Power Box Charger: Pedal to the Metal… or Whatever Your Gadget Is Made of
Hand-powered generators are pretty common nowadays, but this is the first foot-powered model that I’ve seen. Developed by K-TOR, the Power Box has a two-bladed socket, so you can charge or power almost any device while working up a sweat.…
October 7, 2011
Don’t Waste Your Breath, Because You Can Use It to Charge Up Your Gadgets
This isn’t the first time we’ve heard of a device that can generate electricity from human breathing. Jmengel’s nifty little device that can generate charges via continuous breathing serves as a bit of a preview to this device that researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have now developed.…
November 27, 2010
Today is Just Another Day. for a Meme.
Apple’s hyperbolic marketing strategy works most of the time, but I’m sure even Apple fanatics will admit that the Beatles’ iTunes release pre-announcement was too much.…
April 2, 2010
Darpa Gives New Meaning to “Brown Out” With Poop Reactor Idea
I went to college and know firsthand that methane will burn. I once knew a dude that burnt the hairs off his scrotum after a particularly noxious one was lit and flared up unexpectedly.…
December 20, 2008
Create Your Own Profanity
If run-of-the-mill, every day profanity just isn’t good enough for you–maybe you’re the type who yells KRAF! when you stub a toe–then you just might be the target market for the Super Electrofluorescent Profanity Machine, which will merrily generate random four-letter words for you at the rate of one per second.…
January 29, 2007
Roll Your Own Xbox 360 Achievements
Having trouble unlocking those oh-so-pesky achievements on your Xbox 360 games? Now you can generate your own custom achievements with this fun achievement generator web application.…