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REAL LIFE NEWS: SMART FLOOR GETS POWER FROM YOUR STEPS

by Hazed

Here's a novel way to provide the power to light your home: harnessing the energy created by your footsteps. Scientists at MIT are working on a special floor that depresses just a bit when you step on it, and that creates power. Probably not much use in a house, unless you pace around a lot, but this could have great possibilities in shopping malls or airports where there is a constant flow of people tramping about.

The effect will feel a bit odd - like walking on solid sand, say the scientists - but if it saves money I am sure people could soon get used to it!

See the MIT news website to find out more.

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