In classrooms where physics can feel like a relic of the past, educator Christopher Chiaverina is handing students paper and aluminum foil and asking them to touch the future. Triboelectric nanogenerators — devices that convert the friction of touch into usable electricity — have long lived in university research labs, but Chiaverina has distilled the principle into a build anyone can attempt at home. His work is a quiet argument that the distance between scientific frontier and human curiosity need not be as vast as institutions have made it seem.