| Google Teams Up with Innovate or Die |
| Written by Hank Green | ||
| Monday, 24 September 2007 | ||
 Specialized bicycles recently announced their "innovate or die" campaign. They're asking clever folks like you to design and build pedal-powered machines that will help replace some of our current power use. Now, Google has teamed up with them, and is promoting the project through YouTube. A final video of the pedal-powered project will have to be uploaded at the projects YouTube channel. Unfortunately, Specialized stole the best idea already, a pedal-powered laptop workstation. Laptops work well because they have an internal battery (so they won't crash if you get too tired) and use far less power than a desktop. The winning submission will walk away with $5000 and a Specialized bike. Not bad. I'm pretty excited to see videos start making their way up onto YouTube. So far, it's just the one vid from Specialized. You can check it out after the jump...it looks like that poor girl is working pretty hard to make that laptop work.
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Interesting
written by Brian Green , September 25, 2007
Just announced?
written by Aaron , September 25, 2007
Hi,
Long time reader, first time poster. Great site! but nore to the point, Specialized has been using that moto for years now.
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written by celia , November 23, 2007
Has any one thought of a self powered gym?
pedal powered... solar cell and battery
written by patrick , August 13, 2008
For Brian I propose... a pedal powered solar cell and battery manufacturing plant! as well as pedal powered mining of the required materials.
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Me being me, I'll slap a few solar panels on the roof, hook up and inverter and battery bank and call it a day.
Good post though.