The average active person generates enough energy from everyday motion to power a smartphone for three hours, and the average smartphone user runs out of juice before the end of the day. Enter AMPY, a new startup that has solved this all too common problem by inventing the first pocket-sized wearable device that captures the energy from everyday motion and turns it into power for smartphones and other USB-powered devices.
The compact, lightweight wearable device transforms kinetic energy, or energy generated from everyday movements such as walking, running or biking, into battery power for smartphones, smartwatches, and wearable devices. Users can charge while on the go at the same rate of a wall outlet or store their energy for later use when they can’t get to a power outlet.
A companion smartphone app lets users track energy generated, calories burned and hours of smartphone or smartwatch battery life. Users can compare their stats with friends and other AMPY users and can share their progress on Twitter and Facebook o stay charged and motivated.
AMPY’s co-founders believe in smarter power: the way it’s generated and the way it’s used. As active ubranites, they explored the possibilities of capturing their own energy from daily activities to charge their smartphones, then engineered a solution to do just that: the AMPY MOVE motion-charger. The three entrepreneurs formed a start-up team of designers and engineers to fabricate AMPY MOVE prototypes at Northwestern’s Segal Design Institute.
After hundreds of hours of testing trials, customer interactions and multiple 3D-printed models, AMPY MOVE was born. The wearable device has won numerous awards, and the team was named to Forbes 30 under 30 in Energy. AMPY’s vision doesn’t stop with the AMPY MOVE. The team is already scaling down the technology inside of AMPY to power wearable devices, so they never have to be plugged in to the wall. Now that is smarter power.
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