"A Look At How Soldiers Will Power Their Batteries..." Topic

… In The Future.

"The Army is looking for a way to lighten the load of batteries soldiers have to carry around to use their gadgets, and rising to the top of the heap is a tricked-out knee brace that absorbs the energy every time your feet hit the ground.

The PowerWalk, also known as the bionic power knee harvester, looks like a very tactical knee brace, but it's wired to a battery pack that can power radios and other equipment with a weight of less than 7 pounds.

"It's modeled after the HALO video game, which had a brace that was modeled after an old Natick prototype," Noel Soto, a project engineer at the Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center, told Army Times in a Nov. 23 interview…"

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Amicalement
Armand

Reminds me of the smart phone charging bra that made the news on the mid 00's.

(smile)

Amicalement
Armand

Brilliant idea!

Yea, that's not gonna catch on everything, and make lots of noise, and just the right/wrong moments.

I thought is was some type of camouflaged squirrel by what appears to be a black eye, and tail and leg on opposite end. Are we sure it's not a squirrel in a cage generating an electrical charge? Wonder if squirrel food and water would offset the weight savings somewhat.