The recent adverse environment change,such as global warming,rising sea level,and glacier melting, greatly challenges the future of human society,demanding accelerated exploration of green energy technologies. The advancements in micro-nano technology and mechanical-material engineering make it possible to the harvest and utilization of vibration energy,mainly to convert it to electrical energy via electromagnetic conversion,electrostatic conversion,piezoelectric conversion,magnetostrictive conversion,magnetoelectric conversion,and triboelectric nanogeneration,as well as hybrid mechanisms. Among these,triboelectric nanogeneration is the latest research focus. The current status of researches on the mechanisms,materials,structures for vibration energy harvest technologies were reviewed,major achievements of domestic and international researchers were retrospected. The working principles,characteristics,electric output performances of a number of energy harvest methods are explained in detail,and some key problems remain to be solved pertaining to the coupling performance,frequency range,harvest efficiency,integration and longevity in the research on vibration energy harvest technologies are summarized. The trend of future developments of vibration energy harvest technologies are also discussed,hoping to provide a valuable reference for the people in the field of energy harvest.