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Students get charge out of pedal power
11-08-2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)MIT students have come up with a way to recharge your laptop without plugging it in. Rather than consuming electricity, you'll be burning calories--your own--while pedaling a much-altered, electricity-producing exercise bicycle.
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