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