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Mousetrap Generator
Trapped mouse generates small amount of electricity
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The mouse trap includes a small treadmill hooked up to a miniature dc generator. When the mouse runs on the treadmill, electricity is stored in a battery. The trick is getting the mouse to run on the treadmill. One idea is to poke an electrode into the pleasure center of its brain. Then you divert a small amount of electricity from the generator to the electrode. The mouse runs faster on the treadmill to get the electrical stimulation of the pleasure center. Granted, it's probably a bit tricky to get the electrode in the right place.
dangerousdan, Feb 10 2002


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       Damn ! I was hoping this would be a WIBNI to synthesise mousetraps from the dust and shit floating around in the atmosphere. I'm not sure why you would want such a device, but hey...   

       This device? Use it to recharge the batteries for kids' toys.
UnaBubba, Feb 10 2002
   

       [Unabubba] Don't go there again.   

       Like [PeterSealy], I thought this was a device to create better mousetraps.
phoenix, Feb 10 2002
   

       Don't go where again? Kids' toys, or Star Trek Vermin Control WIBNIs?
UnaBubba, Feb 11 2002
   

       it could power more electric mice in more traps that in turn, power more electric mice in more traps etc. etc. lights up national grid eventually.
po, Feb 11 2002
   

       At what point does it reach critical mouse?
UnaBubba, Feb 11 2002
   

       I thought like phoenix, but i hoped like the board game, that this would be a version of the Mousetrap boardgame where instead of constructing the same mousetrap each time, you would get to design and build an original mousetrap out of weird plastic bits.   

       (And surely a fox or tiger trap would give more energy. Or a mantrap.)
pottedstu, Feb 11 2002
   

       D'OH! Sorry [PeterSealy]. 'Course I was referring to [UnaBubba]'s annotation. And [UnaBubba], I was referencing an idea from last year when a number of us got into a debate about solar powered toys (and whether or not they should have rechargable batteries).
phoenix, Feb 11 2002
   

       I started that discussion. Just ploughing the same field for a new crop.
UnaBubba, Feb 11 2002
   

       You'd get even more energy from a cheetah or (better yet) a monster truck trap.
prune, Feb 11 2002
   


 
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