Students get charge out of pedal power

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MIT student Julia Kiberd 08 pedals the specially adapted exercise bike generating power for the laptop shes using to check her e-mail. Helping to host the Student Center display of the bike are (from left) technical instructor Stephen Rudolph Kendra ...
MIT student Julia Kiberd '08 pedals the specially adapted exercise bike, generating power for the laptop she's using to check her e-mail. Helping to host the Student Center display of the bike are (from left) technical instructor Stephen Rudolph, Kendra Johnson '09, IT energy coordinator Laxmi Rao and civil and environmental engineering senior research associate John Germaine. Photo / Laxmi Rao

MIT students have come up with a way to recharge your laptop without plugging it in. Rather than consuming electricity, you'll be burning calories--your own.


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