10 March 2009

I am so sick of lazy hamsters

Seriously, is there anything worse than a hamster just ignoring its potential and not providing anything worthwhile? No, nothing. But at long last, those fuzzy little wastes of space can finally start giving something back: very small amounts of electricity.

No, they're not hooking the treadmills up to little generators. Someone has developed a collection of "nanowires" that can be woven into a hamster-jacket, and the wires collect energy from their movements.

Sometimes I can't decide whether to be amazed or baffled by this modern world.

Photo by Zhong Lin Wang, shown on Discovery Channel.com

1 comment:

Jarred McGinnis said...

You're missing a trick here. The real innovation is the hamster-jacket. Never mind the nano-whatsits. Nothing worse than a naked hamster just ignoring all the rules of propriety and decency.