Human generated power
Notes from a session held at the Luminous Green Retreat, 29th of April 2007
Joey Berzowska
- Joe Paradiso's paper http://web.media.mit.edu/~joep/Bio.html
- power from radiation, power from the body, power from devices, redesign as power optimization
- active and passive power generation - how to harness it.
- INTERNATIONAL FASHION MACHINES - Boston - former
- XS labs - Montreal - XTRA SOFT LABS….
- power consumption usage as a tactile interface - montreal science museum stationary bike example - crowd sourcing
- gym as a power source - human generated power as discomfort and lowe efficieny
- perverse terms as an approach to the problem?! - grants for power generation costumes
- heavy shoes - steps
- photosynthesis - slow process
- Petomane - french fart artist 19th century, czech it out. Joseph Pujol, the Fartiste http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~lofty/pujol.htm
- ECOLOO - brick system compactor of human waste
- heat exchange
- distributed twitches for power harvesting
- bondageware - perversion, power generation through force - what happens with children if you would force them to run? - piezo electric cells in shoes…
- nanowires - in the bodies
- ACOUSTIC DIAPHRAGHM energy capture device
- METHANE CAPUTRE technology - telephone booths as methane capturing devices - hybrid systems
- the PHARTBOX - old phone boxes with new use