Using air to charge cellphones?

SpinnerSpinner Birmingham, UK
edited February 2005 in Science & 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

  • TheSmJTheSmJ
    edited February 2005
    Sweet, so all I have to do to charge my phone is run REALLY FAST while holding my phone high into the air. Brilliant.
  • BuddyJBuddyJ Dept. of Propaganda OKC Icrontian
    edited February 2005
    Or hold it out with one arm and spin around in a circle. Wheeeeee~!
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited February 2005
    Spinning in your office chair was never so productive.
  • entropyentropy Yah-Der-Hey (Wisconsin)
    edited February 2005
    Stick it out the window of your car :D
  • BLuKnightBLuKnight Lehi, UT Icrontian
    edited February 2005
    entropy wrote:
    Stick it out the window of your car :D

    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.
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