“Warning: Low battery”. In other words: our
MTB-world is about to collapse! No laptop, no phone, no more music. Worst case
scenario: you’re not at home. And you have the feeling of being further away
than ever from your recharger. So what do you do? You ride you bicycle, you
start breathing heavily or you make a fire. Life can be that easy.
Even though I am in favour of any method to
make life more ecologically, there are, however, some limits. But in the world
of smartphones there aren’t any borders more. As some of you already described
in the blogs, now you can recharge your phone by cycling, by walking with a movement
sensitive recharger in your backpack, by lighting up a tiny, digitalized stove
and – last but not least – by breathing through an electricity generating mask
called AIRE.
Small wind turbines in the mask produce
electricity with the air you are breathing out. The faster you breathe, the
more power your gadget is receiving. Unfortunately, it doesn’t take away any snore
sounds!
Inventions
like AIRE just prove again how dependent we are on being “connected” to the
world in which we live. But would it harm us that much to be offline for a couple
of hours?
Katrien Cailliau
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