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On Mar 21, 2008, at 6:19 AM, Roger Burton West wrote:

> Elizabeth wrote:
>> http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/319/5864/807
>> For the unwebbed, it is a knee brace thingie that generates
>> electricity while one is walking. Awesome!
>
> Combine with a _big_ capacitor and metal-sheathed, insulated gloves?
>
> <evil grin>

Didn't see those, but I am very much in favor of generating my own
electricity, rather than depending on various entities (as it were)
to deliver it. Especially if one can do so when one is going about
ones daily activities rather than doing special stuff. (Eg,
connecting a bicycle to a battery to store electricity to run
computers, televisions, etc...

And I prefer things that don't use petrol or other pollutants. Less
evidence for the revenuers to use to locate you.

Err, not that I am an evil villain or anything like that.

Really.

Elizabeth

PS, six people have signed up to take my rainbow bracelet beading
class in June (before the advertising of it), and 11 (possibly 12, so
far) have signed up for the daisy chain tennis bracelet.
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--- Skywalker DeleteThis @Jedicouncil.org wrote:

>
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/319/5864/807
>
> For the unwebbed, it is a knee brace thingie that
> generates
> electricity while one is walking. Awesome!
>
Neat, now they just have to figure out how to create
one that will load the electricity into re-chargable
batteries. That would really be useful as I go
through AAA moderately quickly. I have a "head lamp"
that I use for reading/doing crossword puzzels in bed.
It's more efficient for me than the traditional "book
lights"--I kept dropping & breaking them. The current
toy, slips around the head and runs on 2 AAAs.

Jackie



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In article <20080321190234.986880996105359 DeleteThis @firedrake.org>,
roger+abth200803@nospam.firedrake.org (Roger Burton West) wrote:

> Incidentally, does anyone here have experience of the tapetum lucidum
> in
> foxes? When I was having a pipe in the garden a few weeks ago (and
> reading by head-light) a fox wandered towards me, stared straight into
> my light (dozy bastard) and went away again when I growfed at him. But
> the reflection from his eyes was the same blue-white as the light, not
> at all the yellow or red I'd have expected...

Could it have something to do with the colour of the white light? It's presumably
not full-spectrum.

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