by Darren Murph, posted Feb 27th 2009 at 12:33AM

Imagine this — one day, with enough steroids, your pet hamster actually could power your home by just running on its wheel. Georgia Tech researchers have discovered ways to “convert even irregular biomechanical energy into electricity,” and it’s demonstrating the finding by showing off jacket-wearing rodents that are game to run. According to the institution’s Zhong Lin Wang, the minuscule nanogenerators “can convert any mechanical disturbance into electrical energy,” which theoretically means that power can be driven by simple, irregular mechanical motion such as the vibration of vocal cords, flapping of a flag or the tapping of fingers. As with most of these university discoveries, there’s no telling how soon this stuff will be pushed out to the commercial realm, but at least they’ve found something to keep the rats busy during the off hours.

Like to say to people that I too own a pocket pet (hamster… or actually we can call him walking battery charger ) And while he is mightily cute he is quite annoying… Our hamster loves to start running 5 in the morning and all through the day. He stops running around 7pm for some reason… And now I can use the maniac power!! Muhahaha!!