Dyson Energy - James Dyson Award 2009

[ghossler]

that is pretty darn good idea! but im sure the prize will be CRAZY.. plus.. does this mean if u have a fever... it will charge even more and faster? xD

[dauntSilver]

600 bucks?

[INMATE2468]

Nice! When is this coming out?

[DrMadd1967]

USA? I think not enough.. Women here in the us (no pun intended) would wear it out in a few days. They are always on the phone texting........I love women but they need to put down the phone for a little romance once in a while. :=)

[sorzanx]

will it blend?

[TravvyG]

This would work well in Australia specially in Summer

[qwerty5000]

@TravvyG no it wouldnt it generates more energy with a bigger difference so it would work worse in australia but better in the artic

[INMATE2468]

This is fuking awesome

[Dexy205]

so whenis this going to be released?

[elizium1976]

@Dexy205 Price is gonna be rediculous again.

[AgentCROCODILE]

This is a nice setup using what appears to be Peltier effect junctions. Or some sort of other thermoelectric junction.

[jeanious2009]

Dont think americans are going to like that if it envolves any type of work out (by that I mean even just wearing it).

[xXxXxusaxXxXx]

@jeanious2009 whats that suppose to mean?

[jeanious2009]

That sounds like a work-out.,

[simeoniAlberto]

TRANSLATE FROM ITALIAN TO ENGLISH: salto termico troppo basso....la potenza generata è troppo piccola.......dato che i cellulari vogliono 4-5V di alimentazione la batteria nel polso deve essere ricaricata dalla cella di peltier a più di 4-5 volt.......la domanda è con un salto termico così piccolo si può avere un voltaggio di 4-5 volt nella cella di peltier e caricare una batteria?? fantascienza

[Arembjorn]

@nas6792

They aren't creating energy genius.... they are taking the energy of more heat from one side, as it passes to the other, to CONVERT it to electricity... So that being said, and the fact that they don't claim to be grabbing electricity from their asses, I would have to say to you, "think before you speak"

[maxspawn5]

if all the fat people in america wore this, dyson could have enough energy to conquer TEH WORLD!@!@! or recharge his new iphone4 for 2hrs...

[lividmonky]

Great idea but the amount of energy created by the Seebeck effect is so minimal that if your phone were to die on you, it might have enough power in it to make a 30 second phone call if you wore it all day. Another idea is to add kinetic power to the battery. I believe that the kinetic power wouldn't just add to the thermal power, but rather multiply it. By incorporating kinetic and thermal energy, something like this could be worthwhile.

[psiturbo]

Technology is worthless, we do not need a phone that has two cameras, flash, internet and the ability to lose signal when you touch the way it does not like to be touched. We need technology thats uses less energy... that is technology.

Current gadgets its all about the ultimate fastest most powerful, when its suppose to be the most efficient, less energy usage, more running time.

We are still using AA and AAA batteries, still in the stone age.

[psiturbo]

@psiturbo

And it costs dimes and nickels affordable to everyone. An inventor is not some knucklehead that only the $elected few can afford. Trust me this fan will not be sold for nickels and dimes in the years to come, this is no RCA VCR or Phillips DVD player. His more of a hobbyist than anything else, a functional sculptor.

Invent a fan that uses and costs a 1/3 of any current fan and then you are an inventor. Dyson, you are obsolete and way off in your virtual vision!

[brainslay3r]

@psiturbo Technology isn't about power efficiency, it's about making your life easier. The internet, flash, cameras, videos, speed and pretty much everything else on the market are designed to make your life easier. Sure, we could make a Motorola Startac run on a li-ion battery for a week, but does anyone really want that? Does anyone really want a step backwards all for the sake of energy efficiency?

[xdeadsilentx]

@brainslay3r umm... power efficiency does equal technology. technology is defined as an application of science that is used to improve the the quality of life. For some people, getting more output from input makes them happy. Happiness defines their quality of life, lol.

[MrSquish22]

@brainslay3r Startac ftw!

[ericksonboang]

human battery

[utuf85]

wearing rubber squares on your skin for hours to charge your cell phone for a few extra minutes sounds smart and comfortable.

[Erikdb]

Phone's REALLY need to be less power hungry for such a thing to work. The Seebeck effect creates a voltage at < 10 degrees C but not any significant amount of power in the order of what is needed for such an application. Not even sure whether if you cover your whole body in this, you'd get enough power for a decent charge!

[PointlessCamel]

Ask 'em when they're running out. Ask 'em when there's no heat in their homes and they're cold. Ask 'em when their engines stop. Ask 'em when people who have never known hunger start going hungry. You wanna know something? They won't want us to ask 'em. They'll just want us to get it for 'em!

[TheElectricUndead]

Now thats a good use of technology, i always thought they should make electronics that use the human body for a source of power.

[senorrawr]

@TheElectricUndead no they shouldn't thats how the robots will get enough power to kill us!!!!!!!!