====== 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
  * http://www.media.mit.edu/physics/publications/papers/98.08.PP_wearcon_final.pdf PARASITIC POWER
  * http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?tp=&arnumber=1401839&isnumber=30432
  * 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