This is not a new idea of making use of the natural forces to generate power for gadgets. Orange, the cellular network operator is going to show us its wind-powered cell phone charger, which the prototype will be able to make use of wind power to charge your cell phone. The prototype weighs only 150g and can be mounted on a tent. Basically, to use it, you just mount it up during the day, it’ll then store up charge generated from the wind power, so you could charge your cell phone at night. As shown in the small picture, this wind-powered charger shall carry a little propeller, which should be sensitive enough to spin, even though it’s only little bit windy. Else, it’ll only be usable in those really windy countries such as UK or Holland.
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June 18th, 2007 at 2:00 am
Really going to be great for travelers / campers. Like you said, if this thing does not spin under low wind speed, then ppl like in Malaysia might as well rely on solar.. wait, we are having lots of rain lately too…
June 18th, 2007 at 2:30 am
haha if it’s not windy, you just puff and huff for the whole day to store up charge for night charging
October 13th, 2007 at 6:25 am
[...] Making use of wind power to charge gadgets is not new to us. We’ve learned before that Orange was into making a wind-powered charger for cellphone. Now, here comes another wind-powered charger, HYmini, which is a charger/adapter device that harnesses basic, simple wind power to recharge almost all your 5V digital gadgets. [...]