A Step Closer to Self-powered Kit

Couple this to the article aabove this one on the home page about Apple liquid cooling a laptop...

Now if they harvested the energy from the key presses...

Del, I HAD to offer this, when your post reminded me of it. Here's my take on the "energy recovery from key presses" idea -

My wife hates computing (she doesn't like computers much, either, but she REALLY hates having to actually USE one!), so during the DOS days, when you had to at least speak a smattering of the appropriate language, I used to get a phone call every day that went like this -

Mike, I can't (BANG! BANG!) (something either being pounded upon, or used to pound upon, the computer and its surrounding furniture) get this STUPID machine to (BANG! BANG!) work! Why .. does .. it .. ALWAYS .. do .. this .. to .. me..? (more banging). When I finally quit laughing, about the time I realized all those ellipsises above represented more dental bills to repair the tooth-grinding, I could usually talk her through a couple of keystrokes to fix it. I was, after all, a UNIX sysadmin, after learning DOS, so I had an extensive vocabulary in at least 4 computer languages already.

And think of the energy SHE could have recovered from all that banging, AND all that grinding. Come to think of it, I could have harvested all that laugh energy also (like Monsters, Inc., maybe?), but if I'd ever let her catch me laughing, we'd have needed that energy to cremate my remains.

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And if we could only harvest the energy spent swearing at Morosoft.
Del

Moron-soft, did you say? I usually call them either Micro-Sloth or Micro-Snot (depends on who I am with. My wife IS a lady, after all.)