Eco Factor: Kinetic energy-harnessing chair design.
While reading a newspaper or a celeb magazine, most people have a habit of rocking on the chair on which they sit. Designer Petr Novak has now designed a chair to harness this habit of all regular book and magazine readers. A kinematic mechanism is integrated in the chair that harnesses every movement of the chair and converts it into useful energy. This energy is either stored in the batteries, or can be used to light up your book with a built-in LED lamp that is powered by the dynamo beneath the seat.
The Dark Side:
The chair’s design looks a bit too complex. Keeping the frequency a normal reader would rock his chair in mind, we are skeptical about the total amount of energy such a system could actually generate.
Via: Core77
