By the first glance, you’ll definitely say that this is one kind of those erasers you’re very familar with in those old school days. But, no, it’s actually a charger for your cell phone. It’s the kind of AA battery-powered charger that we have seen before. It’s powered by a couple of AA batteries, which can give your phone a quick boost of the batteries, which they could at least let you finish those urgent business calls. Too bad is this charger has very limited list of compatible phones. It only works well with those Japanese cell phones from FOMA and SoftBank only. It doubles as a cellphone strap, which you can attach it to your cell phone and bring along with your cell phone. So, anytime, when your cell phone is almost flat with the batteries, just connect this charger up to your cell phone to boost its batteries.
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May 17th, 2007 at 7:08 am
[...] If you’ve been practising Qi Gong for quite some time, then surely your breathing is strong enough, even to generate some electricity. Those folks at MAKE who have got pretty good knowledge of D.I.Y, have made a USB AA-batteries-powered charger, but it’s got little more speciaty in it than the one we’ve just seen. It takes rechargeable AA batteries that can be recharged by having you to breath in turns. Furthermore, it’s USB charger, which suits more gadgets. Basically, it consists of some kind of simple electornic circuit, a few rubber bands to make up a generator, so when you’re huffing and pufffing along your way, then the charger’s batteries will pick up charge, which then can charge your gadgets. Currently, this device can produce around 50mW of power, of course, it’s simply too low, which might take almost a day to fully charge your gadgets. For the Qi Gong experts, you’d probably be able to produce much more than that, perhaps only a few hours. [...]