Lawrence Rome Quotes (3 Quotes)

As humans walk, they vault over their extended leg, causing the hip to rise five to seven centimeters on each step. Since the backpack is connected to the hip, it must be lifted five to seven centimeters. It is this vertical movement of the backpack that ultimately powers the electricity generation.

We are working on parallel development of ergonomic backpacks for everyone from school children carrying heavy bags of books, a worldwide public health problem, to the normal backpack used to carry laptops, to hikers' backpacks to military and explorers. Everyone can benefit from a more ergonomic backpack.

The beauty of the system is the weight you are carrying around with you anyway serves as the mass to drive power generation.