Using air to charge cellphones?

25 Feb, 2005 at 10:59am ET Article published in Tech

All you need to charge your mobile is… air, apparently. Students at the Department of Industrial Design at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi have attached a turbine to a mobile phone that helps charge it even when the user is travelling.

“The electricity generated by the turbine when moved by wind energy could charge a cellphone in an emergency. It generates electricity to the tune of 3 to 4 watts which is sufficient to charge a mobile phone,” he said.

I like this idea, my SPV C500 goes through a fully charged battery like its life depended on it!

Source: Rediff.com

Comments

25 Feb 2005 ~ 4:08pm TheSmJ Sweet, so all I have to do to charge my phone is run REALLY FAST while holding my phone high into the air. Brilliant.
25 Feb 2005 ~ 4:17pm BuddyJ Or hold it out with one arm and spin around in a circle. Wheeeeee~!
25 Feb 2005 ~ 6:10pm Thrax Spinning in your office chair was never so productive.
25 Feb 2005 ~ 6:43pm entropy Stick it out the window of your car
26 Feb 2005 ~ 2:44am BLuKnight

entropy wrote:

Stick it out the window of your car

I could see people doing that. I also see other people that would grab it out of the first person's hand. Wow... free phones on the freeway.