'Power Shirt' generates watts as you walk


	'Power Shirt' generates watts as you walk

pokkets

2-14-2008 5:39 AM

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It's amazing the simple means of retrieving energy their finding now were threatened by our own excess. Many of these ideas have earlier been choked in the past before they put a dent in the oil market, but times are changing and news is spreading.

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