gokinpacks.com
About company
Bill Ostrom incorporated Go Kin Packs in August 2013. His goal: to bring an exciting new biomechanical energy-harvesting device to the worldwide market. The co-inventors of the Go Kin device are a team of researchers at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. In under a year, the design team successfully refined the original prototype, which weighed 40 lbs (18 kg), to a sleek 2.6lbs/1.2kg design. The result is the Go Kin: a unique patent-pending device that generates electricity through the power of walking. Batteries and electronic devices such as cell phones, tablets and handheld global positioning systems (GPS) are easily recharged from two USB ports embedded in the device, which also contains a battery to store energy. Five minutes of walking provides 10 to 25 minutes of talk time on a cell phone. PARTEQ Innovations, the organization that commercializes inventions at Queen’s, set up the licensing agreement and patent pending.
