Tuesday, 16 July 2019

A backpack that generates electricity using side-to-side movement from walking

A pair of researchers with the Mechanical and Materials Engineering and Ingenuity Labs at Queen's University has designed a backpack that harnesses the energy from the side-to-side movement of a person walking. In their paper published in Royal Society Open Science, Jean-Paul Martin and Qingguo Li describe their design and the ways they believe it could be used.

* This article was originally published here