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未来新型电源 　　Leading： 　　手机、笔记本电脑、GPS导航系统等经常需要充电，这不仅耗费了大量的电能，而且也给人们带来了很大的麻烦。能否发明一种不需要充电的器具来给它们提供电能呢？一位美国的科学家正在研究通过简单的行走来获取电能。Tom Krupenkin希望这项技术能够提供一个环保的方式，让移动电子设备无论在哪里都有电源。 　　Tom Krupenkin，who teaches electrical engineering at the University of Wisconsin，is an American scientist. He and his team want to reduce dependence on costly and polluting batteries，so they have turned to human beings. Now he is developing easy-to-use technology to harvest electrical energy from the simple act of walking. He hopes the technology can provide an environmentally friendly way to power mobile devices like cell phones，laptop computers，and GPS systems anywhere. 　　Professor Krupenkin and his team have placed a device in a shoe that collects and stores energy from human motion and turns it into electricity. One part of this device is an energy harvester. It has two small containers filled with thousands of very small drops of liquid. These droplets① get pushed back and forth as a person walks. This way，the droplets produce and harvest electricity. 　　The team has also developed a system to permit use of the stored energy by common mobile devices. It does not require connections with wires，and can be used to create a wireless signal. A cell phone that uses the wireless “hotspot②” from the shoe would use much less power than if connected to a wireless telephone network. 　　The devices are about the size of a credit card. Professor Krupenkin says the system is always powered. So unlike a traditional battery，this energy harvester never needs to be recharged. 　　However，the professor also says he does not expect this invention to replace traditional batteries. But it will help reduce dependence on them. Professor Krupenkin says there are a huge number of possible uses for this technology，so he thinks the technology would be useful for people in rural areas where there is no electrical power. 　　He notes that it makes a lot of sense for people who depend on devices like mobile phones and lap