A group of University of Wisconsin-Madison undergraduate students won $5,000 Wednesday for developing a way to re-capture the heat generated from laptops to conduct electricity.
The team won the university’s Dvorak Energy Innovation Prize during the Wisconsin Energy and Sustainability Challenge. The WESC challenges all UW-Madison students to develop original technology that improves or advances environmental sustainability.
The invention, called JouleJack captures the heat through a laptop case that doubles as a portable charger for cell phones or other electronic devices.
The Dvorak Energy Innovation Prize is funded by UW-Madison father and son alumni Stephen and Eric Dvorak and their family.
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