Amen to that, brother.

Considering we can't even afford good boots for most ground combatants, the robot army fear is a long, long ways away. And totally agree with Ben Holmes. Let's see some power draw specs on this. Once we know that (which they must know already, obviously), then we'll know how impossible the power backpack is. Unless it's running JP8 and spewing out exhaust...

Clearly none of these MIT nerds has taken the time to get out of the lab and actually seen the size of potholes in Boston.

Othello- Not enough to measure, but a heck of a lot more energy than you'll get from a crappy wind generator. Otherwise, you'd be well on your way to a perpetual motion machine. For example, there have been efficiency studies on which is more fuel efficient, rolling your window down, or using your AC. BOTH decrease your fuel efficiency to a measurable degree, and that's without strapping a silly plastic do-dad to your window frame. When I took my Yakima rack cross bars off my pickup truck, my highway mileage went up almost 2MPG. Wind profile counts...

I especially like how on their website they show it used to generate energy from wind on a motorcycle and a outside a car while driving. Great: now we can waste of energy in extra gasoline due to crappy wind resistance to recharge this thing outside a car/motorcycle instead of plugging it in to the cig lighter/direct to battery, which would be way, way more efficient. I would have expected more from someone who came from MIT...

Just to ensure we're all on the same page: I have used the Cold Heat and the Cold Heat Pro and they both totally suck. It's not like they couldn't do a good one off AAs (including NiMH, of course which cold heat recommends NOT using)... they just don't seem smart enough to implement it.