{"id":17521,"date":"2011-01-05T09:39:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T07:39:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-01-05T09:39:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T07:39:00","slug":"charge-your-gadgets-using-your-body-s-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/17521-charge-your-gadgets-using-your-body-s-movement.html","title":{"rendered":"Charge your gadgets using your body&#039;s movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"BodyP\">Tremont Electric was in Las Vegas on Tuesday for the  Consumer Electronics Show, where it will tout the nPower PEG (personal  energy generator) as ideally suited for today&#8217;s gizmo-dependent  lifestyles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\">&#8220;It&#8217;s for any outdoors enthusiast who is deep in the  woods and doesn&#8217;t have access to a power outlet or for a commuter who  constantly needs backup battery power,&#8221; said Jessica Davis of Tremont.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\">&#8220;You could use this for an emergency situation or just for your commute.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\">PEG batons measure nine inches (23 centimeters) and  weigh 11 ounces (312 grams). Electricity is generated when floating  magnets slide through coils, according to Davis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\">The batons can be put in a backpack, brief case, or runner&#8217;s pouch where they synch to up-and-down motion to generate power.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\">&#8220;It tunes to optimize the amount of power being produced,&#8221; Davis said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\">PEG works with more than 3,000 handheld devices that are USB 2.0 compatible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\">The Ohio-based company began selling the 160-dollar  &#8220;kinetic&#8221; chargers in September and has been scrambling to catch up to  demand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/299533-Charge-your-gadgets-by-walking-or-running\"><strong>Charge your gadgets by walking or running<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A US company has come up with a baton-shaped device that charges gadgets using power generated by walking, hiking or running.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17521"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}