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A soldier tests the Energy Harvesting Backpack on a treadmill at ARL. Army researchers are continuing apace with work that could one day lighten soldiers’ loads by letting them get the power they need ...

In 1985 the founder of Mystery Ranch, Dana Gleason, invented a revolutionary internal frame design called ArcFlex that permanently changed how pack makers think about load bearing. But Gleason and ...

The need for school supplies has increased over the years, making the annual Salvation Army backpack program an important service. “We do what we can to let the parents free up a little bit of money.

The U.S. Army wants to build backpacks that generate electricity when the person wearing them walks. The Army Research Laboratory is testing a prototype of what it calls the “Energy Harvesting ...