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Dance Charge Prototype Powers Phones By Your Furious Robot Moves
Posted by Jason Chen at 3:45 AM on June 25, 2008
Orange, a mobile phone provider in the UK, has just developed a couple prototypes of this Dance Charge mobile phone charger. You wrap this thing around your arm while you're dancing and your kinetic energy will translate into electricity to power your phone. It's like those flashlights that you have to shake before use, but much, much nerdier. Combine this with the fictional breast charger and you'll be able to power the entire DJ booth with just your flailing limbs. How they got that one chubby doctor from Grey's Anatomy to pose for promo pics is anyone's guess. [Reg Hardware via Tech Digest]
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Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!
Posted 4:40 AM 25/6/08
With this quietly growing trend with kinetic charging a la As-Seen-On-TV shaking charge flashlight, it makes one wonder how many different repetitive motions can be harnessed for power. Imagine if 5, no 8, no 10, no 15, no 20,...no ok let's go with 15 minutes could charge a cell phone.
Yeah, 15's believable.
Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!
ripfire
Posted 4:11 AM 25/6/08
@AmishJohn: 15 seconds? Hmm. Who goes jogging for 15 seconds? And strapping it to your shoe is really not that bad of an idea.
:)
ripfire
ps61318
Posted 4:00 AM 25/6/08
@GeekyNerdGuy: Who are we talking about? I can't think of a chubby doctor on Grey's Anatomy.
On the other hand, Catherine Heigl, from Grey's Anatomy, has been know to ... I can't say it. It's too crass, but it does involve the word "chubby."
ps61318
AmishJohn
Posted 3:59 AM 25/6/08
@ripfire: Probably; but what electronic item will charge in 15 seconds?
AmishJohn
adamator
Posted 3:59 AM 25/6/08
@ripfire: One of the Giz staff had to use it after being attacked by a Koopa.
adamator
ripfire
Posted 3:56 AM 25/6/08
@adamator: There would be a lot more energy if it was strapped to... oh nevermind.
Btw, what happened to the 1up mushroom article?
ripfire
Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!
Posted 3:55 AM 25/6/08
Do the monkey now! Hwah!
Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!
adamator
Posted 3:54 AM 25/6/08
Wouldn't there be a lot more kinetic energy if it was strapped to her wrist instead of upper arm?
adamator
GeekyNerdGuy
Posted 3:54 AM 25/6/08
Chubby doctor from Grey's Anatomy? Just because they both have horse teeth, it doesn't make them twins.
GeekyNerdGuy
PipeRifle
Posted 3:51 AM 25/6/08
At least she doesn't have blonde teeth, I guess.
PipeRifle
John_001
Posted 3:50 AM 25/6/08
Is kinetic energy the new solar panel?
[gizmodo.com]
Pretty soon, we'll be pushing our cars like Fred Flintstone.
John_001
shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog
Posted 3:50 AM 25/6/08
Hey, bleached blond hair and bleached teeth, who'd have thunk.
shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog
PipeRifle
Posted 3:48 AM 25/6/08
Am the only one who is waiting for a human-energy device that charges something by giving me a huge badass leg or arm gantry? Like, a metallic sleeve or knee brace with spikes on it?
If we're gonna do the whole cyborg thing, let's do it up proper. Neoprene and velcro are for sissies.
PipeRifle
ripfire
Posted 3:47 AM 25/6/08
I think this is the part where someone cues that song by CC Music Factory.
ripfire
GeekyNerdGuy
Posted 6:15 AM 25/6/08
@Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!: It is creating job opportunities for people with epilepsy and parkinsons.
I foresee a world where the shoeshine stand has been replaced by sweaty men offering to shake-charge your phone while you wait in your neatly pressed suit.
GeekyNerdGuy
LoudMusic
Posted 5:47 AM 25/6/08
I'd rather strap it to my dog or a 5 year old kid. They wiggle ten times as much as me anyway.
LoudMusic
GeekyNerdGuy
Posted 5:47 AM 25/6/08
@ps61318: When I think of chubby, I think of Torres. I didn't even think Heigl until you said it.
I don't know. I don't know what Chen was seeing. I guess I need Chenvision.
GeekyNerdGuy
GeekyNerdGuy
Posted 7:09 AM 25/6/08
@ps61318: I don't think statuesque quite fits with rubenesque and zaftig. Usually statues have hard bodies.
GeekyNerdGuy
capiendo
Posted 7:01 AM 25/6/08
Torres? Heigl? i think all white people look alike to Chen ;)
capiendo
shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog
Posted 7:01 AM 25/6/08
@LoudMusic: OH TOTALLY AGREE!! I got one of both.... they should adapt it to power my house.
shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog
ps61318
Posted 6:26 AM 25/6/08
@GeekyNerdGuy: Torres, right, although I think "zaftig" or "statuesque" or even, if pushed, "Rubenesque" as opposed to chubby. But hey, chubby is in the eye of the beholder, I guess.
ps61318
tinyhands
Posted 12:31 AM 26/6/08
Note: This is not for white dudes.
tinyhands