Remember Michael Jackson's music video for "Billie Jean"? Where the sidewalk tiles lit up whenever the King of Pop's patent leather shoes would touch them? Wouldn't it be cool if those tiles actually existed and, besides lighting up, produced electricity every time someone stepped on them?
Laurence Kembell-Cook, director of Pavegen Systems, thought it was a good idea. So he went ahead and designed Pavegen tiles that harvest the kinetic energy of pedestrian footsteps and converts it into electricity .... Read more at http://news.discovery.com
