Ampy - Kinetic energy
This is Ampy, a small and portable device that uses your own body movement to generate power. For your smartphone, tablet or even laptop. Strap it the your leg, arm or just put it in your bag. It basically turns your own energy into power for your device. So the more you move the more power you will get. Sounds awesome, and that's why I'm a kickstart backer. I hope to receive my Ampy in a couple of months.
A bit of Ampy history:
Tejas Shastry, Mike Geier, and Alex Smith met in a Northwestern University entrepreneurship class during their engineering PhDs. The trio wanted to solve a problem that most people experience — their smartphones and wearables run out of power at the worst time.
As active ubranites, they explored the possibilities of capturing their own energy from daily activities to charge their smartphones, then engineered a solution to do just that: the AMPY MOVE motion-charger. The three entrepreneurs formed a start-up team of designers and engineers to fabricate AMPY MOVE prototypes at Northwestern’s Segal Design Institute.
After hundreds of hours of testing trials, customer interactions and multiple 3D-printed models, AMPY MOVE was born. The wearable device has won numerous awards, and the team was named to Forbes 30 under 30 in Energy.
AMPY's vision doesn't stop with the AMPY MOVE. The team is already scaling down the technology inside of AMPY to power wearable devices, so they never have to be plugged in to the wall. Now that is smarter power.
Have a look at www.getampy.com and keep checking TechDependent for a review on the Ampy device when I receive it. Stay with TechDependent for more breaking technology news!
Source: GetAmpy , KickStarter
