Can you imagine the power of 50,000 steps a day? Well, Laurence Kembell-Cook, the director of Pavegen Systems imagined it and created Pavegen tiles - a low carbon solution that aims to bring kinetic ...

PARIS—On April 7, 2013, Kenya’s Peter Some won the 37th Paris Marathon with a time of 2:05:38. A surprise winner, Some missed the event record by only 27 seconds, thus depriving him of a place in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A U.K. tech company called Pavegen has invented a way to generate renewable energy from people’s footsteps. Stepping onto a ...

There was once a time when Pavegen founder, Laurence Kemball-Cook, had to break into a site to forcibly install his innovative technology. Today, Pavegen tiles, the unique flooring technology capable ...

UK tech firm Pavegen has been harvesting pedestrian power with floor tiles that convert the kinetic energy of footsteps into electricity since 2009. Today, the firm has launched a new version of the ...

New tile will harvest up to *30x more energy than the original tile, in optimal conditions, and enables Pavegen to combine the power of footsteps with the power of the sun Pavegen can now help smart ...

This story was originally published by Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As Fitbit users like to point out, walking burns a lot of calories. But the energy you ...

When I first met Laurence Kemball-Cook he was showing me how he’d hacked a cheap AM-FM radio in his hotel room the night before. He rewired it to run off his own kinetic energy instead of the ...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - It was in Morro da Mineira favela, in Rio de Janeiro, that British engineer Laurence Kemball-Cook first saw how his floor tiles could make a difference. Children ...

Pavegen, the award-winning global kinetic energy company has unveiled its latest innovation at the Liveable Cities conference in Dubai, UAE. The “Solar+” tile is the latest innovation in Pavegen’s ...

As Fitbit users like to point out, walking burns a lot of calories. But the energy you expend doing it ceases to be useful after your sneakers hit pavement. That's where Pavegen CEO and Founder ...