Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in 2012, highlighting an innovative conceptual device for generating renewable energy. While the AIRE mask remains a concept, the pursuit of kinetic and wind-powered wearable chargers continues today.
A newly proposed device could soon be using the power of your lungs to recharge your mobile devices.
Although it is still looking to go into production, the hope is that by using the AIRE mask to recharge your devices, it will significantly reduce the carbon footprint required to charge your phone. The device can be used in almost any situation, from exercising to simply sitting at your computer.
Generating Power From Your Breath
It can be used indoors or outdoors, while you are sleeping, walking, running, or even reading a book. Besides saving energy and helping environmental preservation, it also encourages physical exercise. Its energy potential is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Though many of our modern gadgets offer tremendous benefits, they tend to use a high amount of electrical energy. Harnessing energy from human activities and transforming it into electricity is possible and represents a great conceptual solution.
The Design of the AIRE Mask
Soon, going for a run will not just help your fitness levels; it will give your phone a battery boost, thanks to an ingenious new invention that uses the air from your lungs to charge it.
Inventor Joao Paulo Lammoglia, from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, said the device could be used in all situations, from running to sleeping. The clever piece of kit harnesses the wind power created by breathing and converts it into electricity to run anything from an MP3 player to your mobile phone.
The electronic mask contains tiny wind turbines, and the energy created is transferred through a simple cable directly to your electronic device.
