The Human Pump concept uses a boardwalk structure fitted with springs that captures and stores kinetic energy from foot-traffic and uses it to pump underground water to the surface. SUBSCRIBE LOG IN ...

Joshua Pearce describes how physicists can help bring simple, affordable and life-changing devices to people and laboratories all over the world, using the concept of open-source appropriate ...

Here, some 1,600 feet off the coast of Newfoundland, they are anchoring a 10-foot-wide (three-meter ... with a complete system of 16 buoy pumps sending water at an even greater pressure of ...

Invented by the NGO’s Ghanaian team, the blue plastic bucket makes for a low-tech handwashing station that keeps touchpoints to a minimum with its pedal-operated ... to pump water from aquifers ...

Father-son inventing team Tim and Clint Adams have created a solar-powered water pump ... water levels. The pump is contained in a waterproof marine battery box about one foot deep, one foot ...

UK cellular company Orange has just announced a foot-powered air pump capable of recharging a cell phone. The “Orange Power Pump” will be shown off at the Glastonbury Festival in late June.