May 6, 2006
Hand crank Motorola Phone Project
The Motorola PVOT designed by Andre Minoli is intended as a lower tier phone for developping latin American countries. Designed to operate on rechargeable AA batteries. It is charged via a hand crank.
[via Gizmodo via Yanko Design]
Other hand crank chargers for mobile phones:
-- Sidewinder Charger - A hand-cranked charger that needs no other power source. Two minutes of winding will give you six minutes of talk time but you can keep cranking until your hand gives out or you lose interest in the conversation.
-- GoGoPower Wind-Up Device Charges Mobile Phones - Made by Japanese technology company Fuso Rikaseihin, it's a a wind-up mobile phone charger which gives you an extra 20 minutes of power. It takes 5 minutes to wind it up though.
Other innovative cell phone chargers:
-- Hybrid Muscle - Muscle power of an albino Buffalo enables energy to be stored and turned into electrical energy to power ten light bulbs, laptops, mobile phones.
-- Cell phone recharger - Japan Today reports on a cell phone recharger - which works with most Japanese phone models - that works by squeezing!
-- A portable solar bag to recharge cell phone batteries -Twenty one year-old Swiss born Markus Gisler, has invented a portable solar bag called the "Sunny Walker, which recharges cell phone batteries as well as batteries for other mobile devices such as PDAs, gameboys, video cameras,
-- A cell phone charger for Howard Hughes and Michael Jackson! - Crystal manufacturer Yoosung Global, has developed a mobile-phone charger with a sterilization function, the first of its kind in the world, as well as lamp and air-purifying capabilities.
-- Instant Power for your cell phone battery - Roughly the size of a match book, weighing less than an ounce and selling for an average of $7, Cellboost plugs directly into the cell phone's charging port (no cords or adapters are needed) and delivers an average of 60 minutes of talk time / 60 hours of standby time.
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