Piezo

Surely you don't need motion to generate electricity, only force?

A proper sports bra with piezo integrated into the loadbearing members would fulfill both support and power requirements.

Not that I've spend much time thinking about this. Cough.

Lester......

You get paid for doing research and stories like this ?

I hate you so much :oÞ~~~~~

"studied breast motion since 1985"

Pfft. I've been doing that assiduously since about 1983! Look at all the affadavits I have! Yes, I know they look like restraining orders, but that's just proof of my dilligence.

I also make available other services:

Laundry cleaning (please wait 28 days for return of panties)

Cancer tests (breast only)

PI (I will follow acceptable clients wherever they go)

Others on arrangement.

(mine's the mac)

Micro generation is not just for the ladies...

Anyone who remembers those shots of Linford Christie doing the 100m can see the possibilities for the lads too .... well for some of us anyway!

Love it...

Mammergy

Fantastic stuff!

and..."studied breast motion since 1985".

Where do I get that job?

A yard of flying boob?

Dearest Lester

Did you not challenge Prof Lawson re. the assertion that "a D-cup in a low-support bra can travel as much as 35 inches up and down during exercise"? If this were so such jubs could potentially become deadly weapons and ought to be banned from our streets along with other jihadi-paedo-terror activities like taking photos and walking the streets with your eyes open in the presence of minors.

Kindest regards,

Ian

'Astounded'

You know, the word 'astounded' is thrown around a lot these days.

Once in a good long while, however, a site enters the internets that is truly astonishing. El Reg, you've made my day.

PH angle - too obvious?

Um, the point of sports bras

Is to inhibit motion. If jigglage still occurs, then the sports bra isn't doing its job properly, surely?

One which actually allows jiggle, even if it is dampening the motion by using to drive some sort of generator, isn't going to be as comfortable as one that does not.

3.5 not 35

sorry to disappoint lads, but a D-cup will only move 3.5 inches up & down not 35inches.

Whilst fun to look at, this amount of movement hurts.

The piezo idea is much more likely to be practical.

Hazel (36D)

Re: Re: 'Astounded'

Sarah,

So how much energy would you produce while running then? :P

Enquiring minds want to know!

GW

Don't forget moobs

Quite a few men could get an iPod going too, given suitable man-boob power harvesting technology.

I think the travel kettle may be out of reach though, even a small one.

innovative idea, and all we get here is ...

... a bunch of knockers.

The one with the dogeared copy of "Swimsuits Monthly" in the pocket, please.

Not enough M in the equation?

"Let's face it - if you're a double-A marathoner, you're probably not going to get that iPod up and running."

I think she's missed a trick there.

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the "Electromotive Falsie", a scientifically designed padded and weighted sports bra for those who want to train harder and charge mp3 players. "Generate power, not a false impression, with the new EMF. Its FSD is AOK."

Anyone remember the TV documentary

.. that was all about breast motion measurement/analysis? I saw it in my teens and have had a keen interest in the topic ever since!

I remember one of my sisters friends was asked to take part in similar research, she was told she'd be filed topless running on a tredmill.. No headshots and it would be anonymous etc. As a student she thought what the hey, but when she informed them she as a B cup the recruiter looked at her sheets and said, oh, sorry we've already got all the B's we need!

But the overall question is: how come my CS degree didn't have any practical research like this???

SB because his MB's could generate enough power when the oil runs out.

but...

what about when they go flat?

mine's the strapless 36AAA

Professor David J C MacKay

Said boffin could be employed to figure out home many car/miles a day could be saved by covering 10% of the UK in jogging double-D cups.

Of course this introduces another unknown variable: how many extra car/miles are used driving to the power stations.

@Hazel

You'd be surprised at what some of us lads endure, if one prefers boxer shorts instead of briefs. (no size given nor required)

Hehe. nice one

What I like about this one is it's content, the fact that it's nsfw AND has the IT angle.

All those whining bitches silenced, just this once :)

WOW !

Jeez, that's some co-incidence. I'd been waiting for something to arrive off ebay, and I was reading this article it was handed to me.

Without a word of a lie, it was a little headlamp powered by three double-A's.

Howzat for co-incidence !!

Fantastic!

I'm sure I'd get het up enough to generate my own power source seeing these babies in action, n-ot ahhm sayin? eh? eh? eh? sayyyyy no more.

@Sarah Bee - You're like the sole female commentator/moderator in a sea of testosterone. The only thing missing is a webcam on you. "Give us a twirl baby...". ;-)

Re: Re: 'Astounded'

I think, Sarah, your giving far too much credit to Ms Hilton's, *ahem*, area. You'd be lucky if you could recharge a calculator on that pair.

35 inches?

Bloody hell... Mrs Addict's jubbs are big enough she has to go to Bravissamo for her ipod chargers. Admittedly they've often given me three legs, but moving three feet...?

Not even Angelina Jolie's comedic Tomb Raider 1 free range jubs managed to roam that far...

PH, because she can probably just about get that far through the alphabet...

Re: Re: Re: 'Astounded'

I would imagine at least a Jigga-watt! :)

@Sarah: Re: Carbon Credits?

@Sarah about my Carbon Credit post. I had already asked the GF permission to post her funny comment. She was happy enough to share with the crowd.

Now I have to go back to her to tell her that I have been disciplined by the Moderatrix instead....

Or do I just have to reword it to point out there are other opportunities to generate power. My girlfriend isn't much of a jogger... but can see the possibilities. hehe...

This is genuine, Green Power Generation which can Save The World from it's Climate Change issues... Research money should be ploughed into this

Obligatory link to the mash

"THE RESEARCHER developing an intelligent bra says there is ‘no way’ it is finished and that he may have to carry on studying women’s breasts for decades."

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/health/bra-research-must-go-on%2c-vows-scientist-20071210588/

Warp? We don't need no steenking warp

"Yeah, it's wrong, but you people are warping my brain."

No need to thank us, we're just happy to help out in any way possible. Selfless is our middle name. Along with a lot of unpleasant ones but we won't go into that now.

@Law: so one well-endowed Bulgarian would be generating around 2 Jigga-wats. How do we scale this? Distance travelled does drop off rather sharply with size while shape is also a factor. I can feel a research grant coming up... Or at least... Gotta go.

Just the job

Peter Hawkins wrote: "Anyone who remembers those shots of Linford Christie doing the 100m can see the possibilities for the lads too .... well for some of us anyway!"

And Professor Wang is surely just the fellow to, er, bring this off...

Oh dear...

Now my brain has Jabberwocky stuck in a loop. Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun

The frumious Bandersnatch! Ow...

Oh...

And silly me here studying parasite genomes and other exciting subjects... Sheesh, how do I change fields?

This thread is...

... excellent with pictures!

Bounce factor?

It's like regenerative braking -- it's not the movement that generates the power, it's stopping it. The more effective your conversion, the less motion you'll get.

As for cup size vs. travel, it depends on several factors. My wife has had two kids and then lost considerable weight, and is taking martial arts and is in better shape than ever. But when breasts shrink, they sag, and they tend to bounce more. So she's always on the lookout for restrictive bras that are reasonably comfortable. ...And not too expensive.

This has caused her to make such remarks as "You know the pencil test? Well, I pass the typewriter test."

(Sarah, no need to worry about my marriage. Trust me. :)

One interesting thing I noticed on the shockabsorber website was that if you picked either of the middle two activity levels, you get more motion than the "extreme" level. Seemed odd to me.

(And watching those animations made my wince. Ouch. Large bouncing breasts may look sexy but I bet they hurt like hell.)

And with that I'll leave you with a bit of Ogden Nash. Forgive me if I get it wrong, I'm quoting from memory:

Dr. Valentine For Once Dreams of Wealth

Dr. Valentine soon hopes to announce

He's collecting fabulous amounts.

He's invented a new bra

Called Peps-oo-la-la

Which gives more bounce

To the ounce.

So watt?

What a waste of time this bra thing is... ;-)

I'm probably spoiling the fun research, but why would you try a bra generator if automatic watches have been around for about 200 years. Surely the movement of a jogger could power a modified mainspring winding mechanism enough to charge batteries, whereever you attach it.

There's LED torches that are charged with a motion not unlike the one that might be provoked by deep research into this breast motion thing, so why not IPods?

Stick them things on schoolkids at break time and the schools lighting during lessons would come for free.

PDAs, mobiles, handheld games and so on, stick it detachable to outerwear and the wash thing won't be a problem either; possibilities galore!

Mine's the 'PowerMac'

breast motion

i study breast motion, too. and breast size. and shape.

(o )( o)

So

So since the UK ladies on average have two chest sizes bigger then their Euro cousins , would that mean they want to be caught much faster then the lighter fleeter of foot cross channel cousins or so it would seem ?

This obviously causes some overheating

> Surely you don't need motion to generate electricity, only force?

Yeah. You just put weight on it and it generates energy — forever. Either like that or E = F*L

> "studied breast motion since 1985".

> Where do I get that job?

(whispering): They have SECRET research facility... ahem.