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Article: Power from the people: Aaron Lemieux's new device captures personal energy to charge cell phones, ipods (or anything else) on the go.(GREEN 2.0)(Tremont Electric LLC.)
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- Inside Business
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- July 1, 2009
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For 1,500 miles, the backpack bounced up and down. Up and down.
It was 1996, and Aaron LeMieux had just finished a particularly tough but successful semester at the University of Toledo. He wanted to reward himself with this ultra-hike along the Appalachian Trail.
LeMieux had attached his pack around his waist in an effort to take some of the weight off his shoulders.
As the bag tugged at his skin, he developed saddle sores. Then he got to thinking. ("When you backpack 1,500 miles, you have a lot of time to think," he says.) He had to regularly stop in town to pick up batteries, and yet the bag rubbing up and down ...