KNEE BRACE GENERATOR COULD POWER MEDICAL DEVICES SAY SCIENTISTS
March 1st, 2008
BY MONICA DOBIE
MOVE over solar power: make room for the new power generator - the knee brace! Motorised prosthetic joints are great - but shame they need a battery. The same can be said about pacemakers. But American and Canadian researchers now claim we can generate sufficient energy to drive these devices by simply going for a walk.
Normally - say researchers at University of Michigan, the University of Pittsburgh, in the USA, and Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada - precious energy is wasted when our knee joint slows the leg after swinging ...
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