Chris Kirtley wrote:
>Dear Dan,
>
>No - nobody has done this. Just lots of speculation. The one guy who has
>done something (Trevor Bayliss) in England, used a mechanical generator
>(like those hand-grip torches).
>
>If you work it out (as I have done) there simply is nowhere near enough
>energy (several orders of magnitude) in piezo-electric methods.
>

Hi Chris,

You may be right concerning producing enough power to run a transmitter.
However, still worth investigating some of the stuff various people
are doing in the area of "wearable computers". MIT Media Lab, etc
- those guys/gals have done all kinds of stuff like this. One article
talks about generating 17W during a brisk walk:

http://mevard.www.media.mit.edu/projects/wearables/newsci.html

They also have an interesting way to use the body as a LAN:

http://www.media.mit.edu/physics/projects/pan/pan.html

cheers,
- Dan Michaels
Oricom Technologies
http://www.users.uswest.net/~oricom
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