Added: May 12, 2008
From: googletechtalks
Duration: 55:29
Google Tech TalksDecember, 12 2007ABSTRACTShawn Frayne, a 28 year old inventor based in Mountain View, will talk about his wind belt. This is a power generation device, that is low cost and consists of a membrane that resonates like a guitar string, with a pair of magnets that oscillate between coils.There was a story recently in Popular Mechanics - watch the video at:http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/industry/4224763.html?series=37Speaker: Shawn FrayneShawn is the inventor of the core wind generator technology on which Humdinger is founded. Previous to his involvement with Humdinger, Shawn successfully matured two technologies, in the fields of "green" packaging and water disinfection, from concepts into developed products in pre-production. He established a strong intellectual property base surrounding those technologies and in early 2006 sold substantial rights to a Fortune 500 company. He is presently involved with refining the manufacturing processes of those products in facilities that have been built overseas.He is also part of an on-going effort established four years ago at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop low-cost technologies by which entrepreneurs in Haiti can transform agricultural wastes into saleable cooking fuel.Shawn has six pending U.S. patents. He has his Bachelor of Science in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Rating: 4.56 (25 ratings) Views: 3345 Comments: 12
hellonearthisman Says:
May 12, 2008 - I was thinking, If the ribbon was spun at 8mph in the air, it would make power, with no wind.
denito9474 Says:
May 12, 2008 - but you would be using power to spin it...
jayrtfm Says:
May 12, 2008 - Colin Kapp wrote about a similar generator in his 1964 SF story "The Subways of Tazoo"
cmfluteguy Says:
May 12, 2008 - Everybody hide your wallets. This kid is a snake oil salesman. He needs to take a freshman physics class, and stop trying to get people to give their hard earned money up for garbage like this! Google should really be more careful about who gives these talks!
fernblatt Says:
May 12, 2008 - Farmers were using methane accumulators over 80 years ago to make natural gas. (to go with this "chicken crap" comment) Uncle Ned may have been one of the guys that did that! lmao
fernblatt Says:
May 12, 2008 - 3 words "Marketing, Marketing and Marketing" heehee
CHLORODOSTAPIK Says:
May 12, 2008 - man you really know how to put boredom into people,you have no expressions and you always huh uh! uh! uh! you can't even answer anyone properly, if you don't know it just admit it,nobody's God.I felt bad for you man,I would be embaressed to go up and not be enthoused about my invention or idea and making it real.WAkE UP that guy all hyped up on red bull the spokesperson for microsoft Balmer bring him down to your seminar cause he would be better than you explained us your boredom..
trainerrock Says:
May 12, 2008 - he is stupid there is a way to make everything wireless with the wind belt and replace powerlines
gfcgamer Says:
May 12, 2008 - This "kid" is making our future.We doesnt need to be controlled like horse anymore.The centralized power over people will fall anytime now. This tecnology can be made by China.Sorry to say that, nothing you could do, will make you fell confortable again about your power today.
gfcgamer Says:
May 12, 2008 - Good job, Shawn. Keep working. We can free some wallet money from those comercial gangsters that don´t share anithing, to our poor people that has no money to light a bulb to read a old book.Thank you.
kylekod1 Says:
May 12, 2008 - It's a revolution, booyaka! Go Shawn!
pleabargain Says:
May 12, 2008 - Reminds me of the 'wow' effect when I first saw 'ribbon speakers'. Worth watching and investing(?).