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Alternatieve manier elektriciteit opwekken Emiel Dehouwer is Digital expert bij Technopolis en heeft een paar tips hoe je op een alternatieve manier elektriciteit kunt opwekken. Met een fiets bijvoorbeeld. Hij leert de kinderen ook hoe je pasta kan klaarmaken zonder...
Moving Minds Awards
UCLL-studenten bouwen STEM-fiets en STEM-podcasts om leerlingen te motiveren een STEM-richting te kiezen. bron:...
4 bornes vélos à la gare des Guillemins pour recharger son smartphone ou son PC en pédalant
La SNCB en a installé quatre à Liège-Guillemins, mais aussi le même nombre en gare d'Anvers-Central ainsi qu'à à Bruxelles-Midi. Six autres exemplaires itinérants voyagent dans les différentes gares. Grâce à ces bornes vélos, le voyageur peut travailler sur son...
WeWatt develops, produces and sells human powered bike furniture, a dynamic energy source that generates electricity while its users are waiting, working or socializing.
This week, Leuven is in the spotlight as the sports epicenter of the world. The passage of the World cycling championships puts the city and the region once more on the international map. But it will not only be the fantastic aerial images of the region that will make...
FOCUS - EBIKE TV & GreenTech Festival Berlin
Female innovators provide digital cycling experience
KAPELLEN - On the occasion of the Day of Science, Patricia Ceysens of WeWatt and An Meersman of Scanbie presented a digital cycling experience on Sunday. By generating energy while cycling, you could virtually move through Kapellen. Generating energy while cycling...
Nahe dem U-Bahnhof Louis-Lewin-Straße ist ein weiterer Paradiesgarten entstanden
Wildblumen blühen in voller Pracht zwischen kleinen Obstbäumen, umrandet von einer Steinmauer. Daneben werden Hochbeete bepflanzt. Fünf Picknick-Inseln neben einem frisch asphaltierten Weg laden zu einer Pause ein. Und an einer Bank kann durch Treten in die Pedale...
Brisbane Airport Been Kitted Out With Oz-First, Time-Killing Exercise Bikes
Anyone whos travelled by plane understands that strange, empty feeling you get when you're killing time in the airport before your flight. You quickly run out of things to look at on your phone (or the fucken thing dies) and you don’t want to stray too far from the...
Sitting is the new smoking
We sit still far too much and this is harmful to body and mind. Sedentarism causes a lot of diseases in the long run. In the United States it is rightly said "sitting is the new smoking". It is therefore advisable to avoid prolonged sitting...
Entspannen unter Strom
Stromerzeugendes Fahrradergometer für Studierende in der Philologischen Bibliothek der Freien Universität aufgestellt Besucherinnen und Besucher der Philologischen Bibliothek der Freien Universität Berlin haben seit dem 10. Januar die Möglichkeit, nicht nur...
Charging your phone with energy bicycles at Driebergen-Zeist station
Driebergen-Zeist Station has acquired two more energy bicycles. With these devices you can recharge your phone or tablet by using muscle power. The energy bikes are an initiative of Duursaam Kerckebosch Zeist. One of the two energy bikes was already on the...
Flemish company goes global with sustainable fitness furniture
WeWatt is a Flemish company with a lofty goal: to turn human kinetic energy into usable power. The start up was founded by Patricia Ceysens and Katarina Verhaegen in 2011 in a bid to address not only today's largely sedentary lifestyle but also growing concerns about...
Cycle-powered phone chargers in the Library
We've installed 4 new cycle-powered phone charger desks in the Library, offering you the chance to save energy, keep in shape and study at the same tim e. The new bike desks, from Belgian company WeWatt, convert the calories you burn while exercising into electricity...
WeWatt pedal-powered chargers expands with business angel cash
Photo: WeWatt pedal chargers at Paris' North Station by Alan Hope, SUMMARY Leuven-based WeWatt, which manufacturers the desks with pedals for users to charge their digital devices, is looking to business angels to expand production and develop software for use in...
Library peddles for power
These Cycling Desks Charge Your Phone-And Your Muscles-While You Work
At the office or airport, 30 minutes of easy pedaling on a WeBike will get you a full iPhone charge and keep you fit. If you need to charge your phone while you're waiting for a flight at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, or while sitting at the train station in Lyon,...
'We-Bike' great success at airport
The six 'We-Bike' bikes that were installed at Brussels Airport in the summer of 2012 seem to be a hit. So says Electrabel. Electrabel launched the bikes at the time in collaboration with Brussels Airport, JC Decaux and WeWatt/We-Bike. The six...
Desk bicycle presented to first customer (via Knack.be)
(Belga) WeWatt, the company of ex-minister Patricia Ceysens, presented its new product WeBike to its first customer in Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe on Tuesday. This is an "office bike" where you sit at a table and work. The idea is that, by...