Power-Harnessing Garments Straight Out of 'Dune'
Monday, March 30, 2009 - 17:14
in Physics & Chemistry
In Frank Herbert's epic Dune novels, the natives of the desert planet Arrakis cope with the extreme aridity of their home by using stillsuits, which capture and re-process body fluids into potable drinking water. One of the coolest things about these suits was that they were self-powered. Herbert wrote that they employed "...motions of the body, especially breathing and some osmotic action [to] provide the pumping force." read more