Nokia Moving Into Kinetically Charged Cell Phones, Files New Patent : TreeHugger →

hilker:

hippieflavor:

“What the patent boils down to, as New Scientist lays out, is Nokia would create a cell phone with heavier components in a strong frame, which would sit two sets of rails, one allows it travel up and down, the other side to side. As the user walks around or jostles the phone, the frame bumps against strips of piezoelectric crystals at the end of each rail and generates a current, which then charges a capacitor that keeps the phone’s battery topped off.”

This is nothing short of amazing and wonderful and so desperately needed:

“Pointing out that this could be the perfect option for people in developing nations with limited access to electricity, IntoMobile writes, “…imagine people in Africa, India, and other emerging economies using a device that can charge itself as they go about their day. They walk to school, walk to work, walk to the river to fetch water, etc., they don’t need to walk to the man with a car batter strapped to the back of a bicycles, charging for electricity anymore.”“

THIS. ASAP.

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